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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #14 ORDINANCE NO. 14 AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE PLAYING OF ANY GAME OF POOL, BAGATELLE, BILLIARDS, OR BOWLING WITHIN THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH, OR MAINTAINING A PLACE WHERE SUCH GAMES ARE PLAYED, EXCEPT IN THE MANNER HEREIN AFTER PROVIDED PRESCRIBING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION THEREOF, AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HERE WITH. The Board of Trustees of the City Of Huntington Beach do ordain as follows. Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation within the City of Huntington Beach, to establish, keep, maintain or carry on a place where the games of Pool, Bagatelle, Billiards, or Bowling may be played for hire or any other consideration, without first obtaining a license from the City Clerk and conforming to the requirements here in after provided. Section 2. All rooms where in the games of Pool, Bagatelle, Billiards, or Bowling are licensed to be played or carried on within the City of Huntington Beach shall be on the ground floor next adjoining the public street, with glass front covering at least two thirds of the entire street frontage of said room, and it shall be unlawful to place or have any obstructions, such as blinds or curtains between the glass front of said room in which the said games of Pool, Bagatelle, Billiards, or Bowling are played or carried on, or to use any stained, ground, painted, or chipped glass or other obstructions within or before said glass front which will tend to prohibit the free and unobstructed view of the a forementioned games at all times from the public street. All of the said glass front must be kept ordinarily clean and free from dirt. Section 3. It shall be unlawful to have, keep or maintain any anti-room, cellar or garret in connection with any room where in the games of Pool, Bagatelle, Billiards or Bowling are played or carried on within the City of Huntington Beach, to have any connection what ever with any room, where in any other business is carried on for profit or pleasure or club purposes, or for sleeping, or living rooms. Section 4. It shall be unlawful for the owner, proprietor, or agent of any room where in the games of Pool, bagatelle, Billiards, or Bowling are played or carried on under the provisions of this ordinance to conduct or allow the same to be conducted between hours of 11:30 P.M. and 6 o'clock A.M. of the following morning of any day. Section 5. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, or corporation who has been licensed to carry on the games of Pool, Bagatelle, Billiard, or Bowling under any ordinance of the City of Huntington Beach, to permit or allow any person under the age of sixteen years to play at said games, or loiter about the rooms where said games are played, without the written consent of their parents or guardians. ORD. 014 1 Section 6. Any violation of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed a misdemeanor and every person found guilty of violating any of its provisions, shall, upon convictions there of, be fined not to exceed $50.00 or be imprisoned not more than ten days, or be punished by both such a fine and imprisonment. And the City Marshall shall forth with proceed to have the license of any such convicted person cancelled accordingly to ordinance No. 10 Section 14 there of, "An Ordinance providing for the licensing and regulating certain kinds of business carried on within the City of Huntington Beach." Section 7. All ordinances and parts of ordinances conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Section 8. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance and cause the same to be published once in the Huntington Beach News, a newspaper published and printed in the said city of Huntington Beach, and there upon and there after it shall take effect and be in full force and effect. Ed Manning President of the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Bch. M. D. Rosenberger City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the Board of Trustees. L M. D. Rosenberger, City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was passed at a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach held on the 19L day of April 1909 by the following vote. Ayes. C.W. Warner. M.E. Helme. C.H. Howard. Noes. D. O. Stewart, Ed Manning. M. D. Rosenberger City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, California. L M. D. Rosenberger, City Clerk and Ex-officio Clerk of the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance is a true and correct copy of an ordinance of the City of Huntington Beach Numbered 14, and entitled, "An Ordinance prohibiting the playing of any games of Pool, Bagatelle, Billiards, or bowling within the city of Huntington Beach. Or maintaining a place where such games are played, except in the manner here in after provided, prescribing a penalty for violation there of, and repealing all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict here with." ORD. 014 2 and that the same has been published in the Huntington Beach News. a newspaper published and printed in the City of Huntington Beach according to law. Date Published. April 23rd1909 M.D. Rosenberger City Clerk. ORD. 014 3 phis Ordinance was reproduced from a handwritten original in its exact form to maintain its historicaCtntegrtty. This typewritten format allows for keyword searching. the handwritten originaCs can be vie wed in the City Clerks office on request.