Ordinance 295-74 - Laserfiche WebLink

Section 11 Prohibited Within Three Hundred Feet of Schools : No location amusement device license shall be issued for, nor shall any amusement device be used or operated in, any building or place within three hundred feet of the grounds or building of any primary or secondary public or parochial school; provided, that licensed devices for the production of music only shall be exempt from this section. CHAPTER 4 - POOL, BILLIARDS, AND BOWLING Section 1 : License--Required. No person, firm, corporation or other association of persons shall own, keep, operate or manage in any public resort or in any other place, except in private homes , within the City of Everett, any pool table, billiard table, pigeon-hole table or bowling alley, or any stand or fixture upon which or wherein any game of any kind is played or carried on in any manner in any public resort or any public place, except in private homes , without first obtaining a license to do so as provided in this chapter. Section 2 : License--Fee . The license fee to be charged by said City for keeping billiard tables , pool tables , pigeon-hole tables is hereby fixed at the sum of $15. 00 per year for each table, and for keeping bowling alleys , is hereby fixed at the sum of $10 . 00 per year for each bowling alley, provided, however, that when a person, firm or corporation or any other association of persons shall keep in the same room one or more such table or bowling alleys , that the annual license fee shall be $15 . 00 for one such table and $10 . 00 for each additional table, and $10 . 00 for one such alley and $5 . 00 for each additional alley. Section 3 : Licenses--Limited number to be issued. After the passage of this chapter the number of licenses issued for the maintenance and operation of public billiard and pool rooms in the City of Everett shall not exceed Ten (10) . Section 4 : Certain Minors Prohibited From Public Billiard Rooms (1) Duty of Owner - It shall be unlawful for any person owning, managing or having control of any public billiard room to allow or permit any person of the age of fourteen years or under, whether as employee, visitor or patron, to enter or to loiter in or about to play billiards in such place, unless accompanied by the parents or guardian of such person, or unless such person is under appropriate adult supervision at all times while upon such places , or unless such person has written consent from a parent or guardian in such form as the City Clerk may prescribe from time to time. (2) Unlawful Acts by Minors - It shall be unlawful for any person of the age of fourteen years or under to enter or to loiter in or about or to play billiards in any public billiard room, unless such person at such time, while upon such place in such place, is accompanied by his or her parents or guardian or under appropriate adult supervision at all times while upon such place, or unless such person has written consent from a parent or guardian in such form as the City Clerk may prescribe from time to time.