1417 Billiard & Pool Table Licenses.T
(Published in the Salina ezt _ ,1908)
77
ORDINANCE NO.
An ordinance fixing a license tax on billiard and pool tables, and re-
pealing stab -section 4 of Section 1 of Ordinance No. 795.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Councilmen of the City of Salina: --
Section 1. Before any personz 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 tau on all such tables, as follows: for the first table, twenty-
five dollars; for the second table,fifteen dollars; for the third table,
ten dollars, and for each table after the third table, ten dollars.
Such license, when issued, shall be for a period of six months, and shall
expire ofi the last days of June and December next after, the same is
issued, and shall be non -assignable and non-transferrable.
Sec. 2. Any person or persons desiring a license under this or-
dinance shall make application therefor, in writing, over his or their
signature, to the mayor and council. Such application 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 nufter of the lot and the name
of the street or avenue on which the building is located.
See. 3. Accompanying such
written application,
the applicant
or
applicants shall deposit with the
city clerk a bond,
running to the
city
of Salina, in the penal sum of five hundfed dollars, with two or more
sureties, residents of said city, to be approved by the mayor, condi-
tioned that no intoxicating liquors shall.be sold or kept in or about
the premises designated in
such application, that the
applicant
or appli-
cants will keep an orderly
house, and will not permit,
minors to
play
at billiards or pool on or in said premises, or remain or lounge there-
about, without e
written consent of of the pare to or guardians'of
such minors, and that the applicant or applicants will not permit gamb-
ling in or about said premises, and will in all things faithfully ob-
serve the ordinances 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 be signed by the mayor
and said clerk; but such license shall not be issued until such appli-
cant or applicants first produce and file with said clerk 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 the provisions
of this ordinance shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum
not exceeing f if ty ' dollars, and every day � part of a day that any
billiard r pools used 6i run without a license shall be deemed and
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held to be a separate offense within the meaning of this ordinance; and
the mayor and council may declare the license held by such person or
persons forfeited when such person or persons shall have been convicted
of the violation of this ordinance, and such license shall thereafter
be null and void, and an action shall at once accrue on the bond given
by such person or persons.
Sec. 5. Sub -section 4, or Section 1, of Ordinance No. 795 is
hereby repealed.
Sec. 6. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and
after. its publication once in the official city paper.
Passed and -approved: y, 1908.
Attest:
city Yrdry.
Mayor.