HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 4941
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ORDINANCE N0: 494
AN ORT)INANCE OF THE CITY OF AZUSA, COUNTY OF LOS
ANGLES, STATE OF CALIFOFNIA, REGULATING PUBLIC
BILLIARD ROOMS AND.SOCIAL BILLIARD, CLUBS, AND
PRESCRIBING THE PUNISHMENT FOR VIOLATIONS OF THIS
ORDINANCE, AND REPEALING ALL OTHER ORDINANCES OR
PARTS OF ORDINANCES INSOFAR ONLY AS ANY OF THE
PROVISIONS OF SAME CONFLICT HER_F'•;ITH.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA, IN TH-; COUNTY OF
LOS ANGELES, STP., -TE OF CALIFORNIA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLO!%S.
SECTION I. MILLIARD ROOM DEFINED. For the Purpose of this
Ordinance a Public Billiard Room is defined to be any place open
to the public where billiards, bagatelle or pool is played, or
in which any billiard, bagatelle or pool table'is kept and per-
sons are permitted to play or do play thereon, whether any com-
pensationoor reward is charged. for the use of such table or not.
SECTION 2. HOURS FOR CLOSING. No owner, manager or
proprietor or other person having charge of any public Billiard
room shall keep the same open or allow or permit the same to be
kept open or allow or permit; any game to be played. therein from
Eleven O'clock P.M. Saturday of each week, until Six O'clock
A.M. of .the following Monday and from Two O'clock A.M. until
Six O'clock A.M. of any other day, or allow or permit any person
extent such owner, manager, proprietor or person in charge
thereof or the servants regulary employed in and about the same,,
to be or remain therein between the hours aforesaid.
SECTION 3. MINORS IN BILLIARD ROOI171S, No person under
the age of 18 years, shall be in, remain in, enter and visit
any,•p&bllc billiard room unless such minor is accompanied by one
of his parents or by his legal. guardian. No person under the,
age of 21 years shall be in, enter and visit any public billiard
room in which any alboholic beverages are sold,, dispensed or
offered for, sale, nor in any public billiard. room which adjoins
a room wherein alcoholic beverages are sold, dispensed or offered
for sale, and in which there is an opening connecting said
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billiard room with the premises where alcoholic beverages
are sold, dispensed or offered for sale,
SBCTION 4. RESPONSIBILITY OF PROPRIETOR., OWNER, MANAGER.
No owner, manager, proprietor or other person in charge of
any public billiard room, shall allow or permit any person under
the age of eighteen (18) years to be in, remain in, enter or
visit such place unless such .minor person is accompanied by one
of his parents or by his legal guardian. Every owner., manager,
proprietor or other person in charge of a public billiard room
in which any alcoholic beverages are sold, dispensed or offered
for sale, ort, such billiard room adjoining a building wherein
alcoholic beverages are sold, dispensed, or offered for sale, and
In which there is an opening connectine'e,said public billiard
room with the room in which alcoholic beverages are sold,
dispensed or offered. for sale, shall prohibit and prevent every
person under the age of twenty-6nE,(21) years from being in.,
remaining in, entering or visiting such public billiard room.
SECTION 5. SOCIAL BILLIARD CLUB DEFINED. As used in this
Ordinance, a social Billiard Club, means a bona-fied social
club, with a limited membership, into which admission cannot
be obtained by any person at his pleasure, and the sole or main
purpose of which is to furnish to its members and to the guests
of such members a place in which to play billiards, bagatelle
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or pool. Any place which is a public billiard room as defined
In Section I of this Ordinance is not a social billiard club.
SECTION 6. MINORS AND SOCIAL BILLIARD CLUBS. No person
under the age of eighteen (18) years, shall be in, remain in,
or visit any social billiard club unless such minor person is
accompanied by one of his parents or by his legal guardian.
SECTION 7. PENALTY AND EFFECT OF ORDINANCE. Any person
violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed
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guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be
Punished by a fine of not more than Five Hundred 0500.00)
Dollors or by imprisonment in the City and/or County Jail for
a period .of not more than six (6) months, or by such fine
and imprisonment.
The Mayor shall sign this Ordinance and the City Clerk.
shall attest and certify to the passage and. adoption of the same
and cause the same to be published once within 15 days after
its passage in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic, a weekly news-
paper of general circulation, published and circulated In said
City of Azusa and thirty days after its passage the same shall
be in lull force and effect.
Mayor of the CitY of Azusa
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0 ty ulerk of the City of Azusa
1 �ZM261 City Clerk of the City of Azusa, coo hereby
certify that the foregoing Ordinance was. duly and. regularly
passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Azusa
at its regular meeting held on the 5th day of December
by the following vote:
AYES Councilmen: Fawcett, Ortuno, Johnson, Romero, I Memmesheimer
NOES None
26I ABSENT. None �.4�/ �_/%
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III do further certify that I cause said Ordinance to be
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published prior to the expiration of fifteen days from the
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passage thereof in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic, a newspaper
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of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in
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thei;City of Azusa, on the 15th day of December 1955-
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and;that the same was published in accordance with law.
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