(A) License required. It shall be unlawful for any person to be engaged in or carry on the business of conducting any pool hall, bowling alley, or shooting gallery within the limits of the village without first having obtained a license therefor in the manner hereinafter provided.
(B) Bowling alleys, shooting galleries. There shall be taxed and collected from the persons engaged in or carrying on the businesses herein mentioned respectively, license fees for each year at the rates following.
(1) Pin alleys’ or bowling alleys’ keepers or proprietors shall pay a license fee of an amount as set forth in § 35.02 per year.
(2) Keepers of shooting galleries or places for target shooting shall pay an amount as set forth in § 35.02 for each gallery.
(C) Gaming table license. No person shall operate or maintain a billiard or pool hall without having first obtained a gaming table license therefor as herein provided from the village. Each such person shall apply to the village for a gaming table license and shall state in the application therefor the intended location of the place or business and the number of tables to be used therein. The annual fee for any such gaming table license shall be an amount as set forth in § 35.02 for each table upon the premises thereof.
(D) Hours; pool halls. No licensed owner or keeper of any pool or billiard hall shall keep open or permit to be kept open said place of business or shall permit persons to assemble therein for the purposes of play other than the following:
(1) Monday through Thursday: 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m.;
(2) Friday and Saturday: 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. (Saturday and Sunday); and
(3) Sunday: 12:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m.
(E) Minors; pool halls. No licensed owner or keeper of any pool or billiard hall shall permit any minor under the age of 13 years to frequent the premises without the consent of his or her parent or guardian, said consent limited solely to being upon the premises as part of a lawful errand at the direction of said parent or guardian.
(F) Registration. Every person engaged in any business, occupation, or pursuit required to be licensed under the provisions of this section, or the laws of the village, shall register with the Village Clerk his or her name, residence, occupation, or business, and the place where the latter is or is to be carried on; and in the case of a company or firm, the names of the persons composing the firm shall also be registered.
(G) Separate licenses. Any number of persons doing business in copartnership at any one place shall be required to pay but one license fee therefor; provided, that if more than one kind of business or pursuit hereinafter mentioned shall be conducted or carried on by the same person or firm at the same time, a separate license fee shall be paid for each according to the rate prescribed.
(H) License term. All license fees provided for herein shall become due and payable on May 1 of each and every year or on commencing any business or occupation upon which said license fee is imposed by this section, and all licenses provided for herein shall expire on April 30 of each year after which said license is issued.
(I) Time of payment. All license fees provided for herein shall be paid in cash at the time said license is applied for.
(Prior Code, § 3-2-1) (Ord. passed 1-2-1940; Ord. 3-74, passed 2-11-1974; Ord. passed 2-2-2003) Penalty, see § 112.99