2018 License Tax on Billard & Pool TablesORDINANCE NO. 2018.
(Published in The Salina Daily Union January G 1917)
An ordinance fixing a l9c.ensffi tak on billiard and pool tables, regu-
lating the conduction of same, and providing a penalty for the
violation hereof and repealing sub -section four (4) of Section
One (1) of.Ordinance No. 795, passed and approved February
15th, 1892; Sections Seventeen and Eighteen (17 and 18) of
ordinance No. 635,' passed and approved March 7th, 1888 and
Ordinance No. 1417, passed and approved May 18th, 1908.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Councilmen of the City of Salina:
Section 1. Before any person or persons shall have, keep or
maintain, for hire or profit in any public place in the City of
Salina, Kansas, any billiard or pool table or tables, he or they shall
pay a license tax on all such tables as follows: For the first table,
Twenty -Five Dollars ($25.00); for the second table Fifteen Dollars,
($15.00); for the third table Ten Dollars, ($10.00); and for each
table after the third table, Ten bollars, ($10.00). Such license,
when issued, shall be for a period.of six months, and shall expire
on the last days of June and December next after the saie is issued,
and shall be non -assignable and non -transferable.
Sec. 2. Any person or persons desiring a license under this
ordinance shall make application thereofor, in writing., over his or
their signature, to the Mayor and Council. -Such a ppl icat ion shall
state
the
number of
billiard and pool
tables to be set up,
kept and
used,
the
kind and
size of the house,
room or enclosure in
which
such billiard and pool tables are to be set up and used, and the num-
ber of the lot and the name of the street or avenue on which the
building is located.
Sec . 3* Accompanying such applications the applicant or
applicants shall deposit with the City Clerk a bond, running to the
City of Salina, in the penal sum of, Five Hundred (500.00) Dollars,
with two or more sureties, residents of said,City, to be approved
by the Mayor, conditioned that no intoxicating liquors, cigarettes
or cigarette papers shall be sold, kept or allowed to be drank in
or about the premises designated in such application, that the
applicant or applicants will keep an orderly house, and will not
permit anyone to play at billiards or pool on or in said premises,
or remain or lounge thereabout under nineteen (19) years of age, and
that the applicant or applicants will not permit any gambling in
or about said premises, and will in all things faithfully observe the
provisoins of Ordinance Nol 2018 of said City, in relation to the
business for which such license is asked; and, upon the granting of
the license by the Mayor and Council, such bond shall be filed with
the City Clerk and such Clerk shall issue such license, which shall
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be signed by the Mayor and said Clerk; but such license shall not
be issued until such applicant or applicants first produce and
file with said Glerk the receipt of the City Treasurer showing the
payment of the amount required to be paid for such license under
this ordinance.
Sec. 4. Any person or persons who shall.violate any provisions
of the foregoing sections of this ordinance, shall, upon conviction
thereof, be fined iri any sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars, (50.00)
and every day or part of a day that any bill.iard or pool table is
used or run without a license shall be deemed and held to be a sep-
arate offense within the meaning of this ordinance; and the Mayor
and Council shall declare the license held by such person or per-
sons forfeited when such person or persons shall have been convict-
ed of the violation of this ordinance, and such license shall
thereafter be null and void, and an action at once accrue on the
bond given by such person or persons.
Sec. 5. That every person or persons who shall keep open or
cause'to be kept open any billiard hall, pool room, bowling alley
o pother place wherrerany billiard table, pool table or other gaming
table or device is kept for pay, on the first day of the week, com-
monly called Sunday, or between the hours of _11 F* M • and 6 A. M . Jq
or permit any game to be played therein on Sunday, or between said
hours or 11 P- M • and 6 A& M • shall be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding
Fifty Dollars, (50.00) and said license shall be revoked.
Sec. 6. That any keeper of any place described in the last
above section who shall permit or allow any person under the age of
nineteen (19) years to play or take part in any game in any of said
places, shall upon conviction be puncished by a fine of not exceeding
Fifty Dollars, ($50.00).
Sec. 7. Any proprietor or manager in charge of any pool or
billiard hall, knowingly permitting the use of any profane or inde-
cent language -or permitting any riotous or disorderly conduct in
his place shall upon conviction be fined in any sum not exceeding
Fifty Dollars, $50.00 and such conviction shall be ground for the
revoking of his license.
Sec. 8. Any properietor or manager in charge of any pool or
billiard hall shall keep two (2) copies of this ordinance posted in
a prominent place and in plain view in his pool or billiard hall at
all times.
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Sec. 9. No pool or billiard hall shall be run or operated
in a room where minors are allowed to loiter or congregate.
Sec. 10. Sub -section' Four (4) of Section One (1) of Ordinance
No. 795, passed and approved. February 15th, 1892; Sections Seven-
teen (17) and Eighteen (18) of Ordinance No. 635, passed and ap-
proved March 7th, 1888; and Ordinance No. 1417, passed and approved
May 18th, 1908, are hereby repealed.
Sec. 11: This ordinance shall take effect and be in force
from and after its publ icat ion once in The Salina Daily Un ion .
Passed and approved, January 5th, 1917.
J. E. pu na ,,
Mayor.
(SEAL) o
Attest:
Chas, Banker,.,
City Clerk.
STATE OF KANSAS )
COUNTY OF SALINE ) SS.
CITY OF SALINE )
I, Chas. E. Banker, City Clerk of the city of
Salina, Kansas, do hereby -certify that the above and foregoing is
a true and correct copy of an ordinance passed by the Council and
approved by the Mayor of the City of Salina, Kansas, January 5th,
1917; and a record of the vote on its final adoption is found on
Page _113 of Journal No. 8. Said Ordinance was published in
the Salina Daily Un ion, January 1917.
/City Clerk.
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