HomeMy WebLinkAbout1974-1723 BILLIARD OR POOL TABLES LICENSES. ORDINANCE NO. /7_..?C
AN ORDINANCE relating to licenses and business regulations; pro-
hibiting the operation of billiard or pool tables
for hire without a license and specifying the fee
therefor; specifying the procedures for applying
for such license, prohibiting license transfer,
and providing for license revocation; prohibiting
• admission of minors to premises where alcoholic
beverages are sold; and amending Sections 5.18.010,
5.18.020, 5.18.030, 5.18.040, 5.18.050 and 5.18.070
and repealing Section 5.18.060, all of the City of
Yakima Municipal Code.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. Section 5.18.010 of the City of Yakima Municipal
• Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"5.18.010 License required. It shall be unlawful for
any person, firm or corporation to operate one or more billiard
tables or pool tables for hire within the City of Yakima without
first obtaining a license and paying the fee therefor as required
by this chapter."
Section 2. Section 5.18.020 of the City of Yakima Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"5.18.020 Fees. The license fee for each billiard table
or pool table shall be the amount of Thirty-five Dollars per
annum, payable annually in advance to the City Clerk at the
time application is made for such license."
Section 3. Section 5.18.030 of the City of Yakima Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"5.18.030 Application for license. Any person, firm
or corporation desiring to obtain a license to open and con-
duct any billiard hall or pool hall shall make application
therefor in writing to the City Clerk on forms specified by
the City, which application shall name the owner of the busi-
ness, the operator of the business premises and the address
where the business is to be conducted. If the application
is in due form and if the applicant is deemed to be a suitable
person to conduct the business for which such license appli-
cation is made, the City Clerk shall issue the license."
Section 4. Section 5.18.040 of the City of Yakima Municipal.
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"5,18.040 Assignment of license prohibited. No license
granted under the provisions of this chapter shall be assignable
or authorize the operation or conducting of any billiard hall
or pool hall in any other place or by any other person than
specified in the license."
Section 5. Section 5.18.050 of the City of Yakima Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"5.18.050 Revocation -- Conducting business without
license. All licenses issued pursuant to this chapter may
be revoked by the City Manager of the City of Yakima for
the violation of any provisions of this or any other pro-
vision of the City of Yakima Municipal Code applicable to,
the business for which a license is issued, or for any other
cause which shall be deemed sufficient by him. Any person,
firm or corporation conducting or operating any billiard
table or pool table for hire for which a license is required
by this chapter, after notice of such revocation, shall be
liable to the penalties herein provided as for conducting
such business without a license."
Section 6. Section 5.18.070 of the City of Yakima Municipal
Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"5.18.070 Minors. It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm or corporation owning, keeping or managing a billiard
room or pool room to admit thereto or to allow to remain
therein any person under the age of twenty -one years where
such billiard room or pool room is operated in connection
with any place where beer, wine or intoxicating liquor is
sold, or where there is a common entrance to such billiard
room or pool room and to any place where beer, wine or
• intoxicating liquor is sold, or where there is any connect-
ing door or window between such billiard room or pool room ,
and any place where beer, wine or intoxicating liquor is
sold."
Section 7. Section 5.18.060 of the City of Yakima Municipal
Code is hereby repealed in its entirety.
Section 8. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
thirty days after its passage, approval and publication as provided
by law and by the City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this 4;?A/
day of 1 4.
• Mayor
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