3821 Regulating Pool & Billiard Hallsnon transferable, and shall be issued only to individuals and
to corporations.
Section 2. Any person or persons desiring a license under
this ordinance shall make application therefor in writing, over
his or their signature, to the Board of Commissioners. Such appli-
cation shall state the number of billiard and pool tables to be set
up, kept and used; the location of the room or rooms in which such
tables are to be set up and used and shall contain a certificate
of at least two reputable citiznes of said city as to the good
character of the applicant or applicants and their recommendation
that such license
be granted.
Such
application shall also be
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accompanied by a
/G
of the
pRDINANCE N0. 38
(Published in the Salina Journal', 1930)
AN ORDINANCE fixing a license tax on pool and billiard tables,pro-
viding for the issuing of licenses and the conditions there-
of, and for the forfeiture and cancellation thereof, regula-
ting pool and billiard halls, limiting the number thereof,
providing penalties for the violation of this ordinance and
repealing Ordinance No. 3255.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina,
Kansas:
etion 1. It shall be unlawful for any person,rsons
to have, keep for hire or profit in"snV plae.n the
,maintain,
City of Salina, b rd or r_ool t� witlutq ,First sQcu,,rQ
license therefor as in thi - Q-rdi ance p o �.ed, and payingl a license
tax on all such tables in the o e ng amoi*ts; For the first
f�
table, $25.00; for the second table, ;'for each additional
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table, $10.00. Such license when issued sha for a period of
.hK
six months, and shall expire on the last day of Ju or December
s`v
next after the same is issued, and shall be non-assignab nd
non transferable, and shall be issued only to individuals and
to corporations.
Section 2. Any person or persons desiring a license under
this ordinance shall make application therefor in writing, over
his or their signature, to the Board of Commissioners. Such appli-
cation shall state the number of billiard and pool tables to be set
up, kept and used; the location of the room or rooms in which such
tables are to be set up and used and shall contain a certificate
of at least two reputable citiznes of said city as to the good
character of the applicant or applicants and their recommendation
the City of Salina recommenclAn.g the granting or rejection of the
same, and the Board of Commissioners may grant or refuse such
license as in their discretion they may deem proper.
Section 3. Accompanying such application, and before any
license is i ued, such applicant shall deposit with the City
Clerk a bond runn to the City of Salina, in the penal sum of
$500.00, with a corpora , surety authorized to do business in the
` State of Kansas, conditioned at no intoxicating liquors shall be
sold or kept for sale or free disbution and that no intoxicating
✓•`;<' liquor shall be permitted to be keptor ed in or about the premises
t designated in such application; that such app rant shall keep an
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orderly house, will not permit any person under nineteen years of
age to play at billiards or pool on said premises to loiter or con-
gregate in or about such place, and will not permit any gambli�
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that such license
be granted.
Such
application shall also be
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accompanied by a
certificate
of the
Board of Public Welfare of
the City of Salina recommenclAn.g the granting or rejection of the
same, and the Board of Commissioners may grant or refuse such
license as in their discretion they may deem proper.
Section 3. Accompanying such application, and before any
license is i ued, such applicant shall deposit with the City
Clerk a bond runn to the City of Salina, in the penal sum of
$500.00, with a corpora , surety authorized to do business in the
` State of Kansas, conditioned at no intoxicating liquors shall be
sold or kept for sale or free disbution and that no intoxicating
✓•`;<' liquor shall be permitted to be keptor ed in or about the premises
t designated in such application; that such app rant shall keep an
ll
orderly house, will not permit any person under nineteen years of
age to play at billiards or pool on said premises to loiter or con-
gregate in or about such place, and will not permit any gambli�
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or about said premises, and will not permit said premises to
be conn d, directly or indirectly, with any room or other place
in the same or in adjoining building where any gambling is
carried on or permitted, a� Il in all respects satisfactorily
observe all of the provisions and co ons of this ordinance and
all other ordinances of the City of Salina, re ng to the business
for which such licenses is asked.
Section 4. If the Board of Commissioners shall deem the appli-
cant to be a fit person to engage in such business, and shall
approve such application and the bond submitted therewith, the City
Clerk shall upon payment of the license tax herein provided for,
issue such license.
Section 5. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to
keep open or cause or permit to; be kept open any billiard or pool
hall, bowling alley, or any other place where billiard or pool
tables or other gaming tables or devises are kept for pay on the
first day of the week, commonly known as Sunday, or between the
hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. on any day, or permit any game to be
played therein on Sunday or between such hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.
on any day.
Section 6. It shall be unlawful for the owner, manager, keeper
or person in charge of any place described in the preceeding section
hereof to permit or allow any person under the age of nineteen years
to play at or take part in any game in any said place, or to loiter
or congregate in or about any such place.
Section 7. It shall be unlawful for the owner, manager, keeper
or person in charge of any pool or billiard hall to kno Xingly per-
mit the use of profane or indecent language or to permit any riotous
or disorderly conduct in such place.
Section 8. It shall be unlawful for the owner, manager, keeper
or person in charge of any poor or billiard hall to seel or keep
for sale or free distribution any intoxicating liquors or to permit
any intoxicating liquor to be kept or used in or about said premises,
or to permit any disorder in or about said premises, or to permit any
gambling in or about said premises.
Section 9. It shall be unlawful for the owner, manager ,keeper
or peron in charge of any pool or billiard hall to permit such place
to be connected with any other separate room or compartment either
in the same or any adjoining building, unless the connecting door-
ways or passageways between such premises and any such room or com-
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partment shall be at all times kept open and free from any door, gate
or other device which may be shut or locked, and there shall be no
door, gate or other device capable of being shut or locked betweon
any such pool or billiard hall and any such adjoining room or com-
partment either in said room or adjoining room, except that this
section shall not apply to rooms designed for and used solely for
toilet purposes.
Section 9 Every license granted under the provisions of this
ordinance shall be revokable and cancellable at the pleasure of the
Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina, Kansas, irrespective
of any other provision contained in this ordinance for the revocation
•
of any such license, provided however, that if such revocation or
cancellation shall be made by the Board of Commissioners without or
prior to the conviction of the owner, manager, of such pool or
billiard hall for any violation of this ordinance, the pro rata
portion for the license fee for the unexpired term of the license
shall be returned to the person who shall have paid the same.
Section 10. Any person or persons who shall violate any of
the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than
$10.00 nor more than $100.00 or be imprisoned not to exceed thirty
days, or shall be subject to both such fine and imprisonment, for
each offense, and upon the conviction of any person or persons to
whom a license as provided for in this ordinance shall have been
issued, or upon the conviction of any manager, keeper, or person
•
in charge of any pool or billiard hall licensed under this ordinance,
or any employee thereof, of any such violation, or upon the con-
viction of any of such person of selling or keeping for sale or free
distribution, or of using or permitting the keeping or use of any
intoxicating liquors, or of permitting any gambling in or about
said premises, or upon the conviction of any other person upon the
charge of gambling in or about said premises, the Board of Com-
missioners may revoke such license, and after any such revocation,
no license shall at any time thereafter be granted or issued to
any such person so convicted, or in whose premises any such act
was committed, and upon any such conviction, an action shall at
once accrue upon the bond given by any such person or persons,
and the person or persons to whom any such license is issued shall
be deemed responsible for and guilty of any violation of this
ordinance caused or permitted by any manager, keeper, or employee
i of such pool or billiard hall.
Section 11. Any person or persons who shall keep or maintain
any pool or billiard table required to be licensed by this ordinance,
without first obtaining a license therefor, or who shall keep or
maintain any such pool or billiard table or keep open any billiard
or pool hall after any sue$ license shall be revoked shall f or each
day or part of a day that any such pool or billiard hall is kept open,
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and for each separate offense shall
upon conviction be punished by a fine of not less than $50.00 nor
more than $100.00; or by imprisonment; and provided further that if
any bond given under this ordinance shall be cancelled by the surety,
or otherwise, the operation or use of any pool or billiard table
thereafter and before a new bond is given shall be deemed an operation
thereof without a license, and any such license shall be deemed null
and void during any period in which no bond as herein required is in
effect.
Section 12. That no more than 8 licenses shall hereafter be
granted or be in effect at any time under the provisions of this
ordinance; provided however that nothing in this section shall be
construed to prevent the re -issuing of licenses to persons now engaged
in such business in the City of Salina, or to bona fide purchases of
any such business, but in the event of the cancellation of the license
of any such person or persons, or of their successors in business,
no additional licenses shall be gflanted in excess of the number above
specified.
Section 13. At least two copies of this ordinance, and the
license issued hereunder, shall be,poMd in conspicuous places in
each pool or billiard hall licensjclke provisions of this
ordinance, and a faiAre to ko6v such copies and license posted shall
be deemed a violat`of the provisions of this ordinance.
Section 14. That Ordinance No. 3255 passed and approved June
14th 1926 be and the same is hereby repealed.
Section 15. This ordinance shall take effect from and after
January lst, 1930, and after its publication once in the oi'icial
city paper.
Introduced December 23rd, 1929
Passed December 30th, 1929
Guy T. Helvering
Attest: Mayor
Chas. E. Banker
City Clerk
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STATE OF KANSAS
33
COUNTY OF SALINE )
I Chas. E.
Banker
City Clerk
of the City of Salina,
Kiitnaas-
do hereby certify
that the
above and
foregoing is a true and
correct
copy of Ordinance
No. 382k
passed and
approved by the Board
of
Commissioners of the
City
of Salina,
Kansas, December 30th,
1929;
and a record of the vote on
its final
adoption is found on
page
I � � Journal No.
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:,u ed in the Salina Journal 1030))
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ORDTTJANCE NO. 3821
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AN ORDT�IANCE fixing a license tax on pool and billiard tables., pro-
viding; for the issuing of licenses and the conditions thereof,
and for the forfeiture and cancellation thereof, regulating,
pool and billiard halls, 2imltirg the number thereof, providing
penalties for the violation of this ordinance and repealing
Ordinance No. 3255.
BE IT ORDATNED by the Board of Commissioners of the CitV of Salina
Kansas:
See
ion 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to
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have, keep -.1for hire or profit in an�r -place in the City
of Salina, billia or pool. I ii t �'-f first s t secur-Ing a license
icense tax on
therefo-, as in this Ord provided'
P_ maintain,'
a
0
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fo
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hi
b ta-
1�e or
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ti
n hirdi p
I s s 0 rov]- de
sI f 01 41ou
tables n he IV _ , UP 0 nt 9 t
all such tables in the follow- '-',a unts: For table,
r
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"1'25.00; for the second table, each additional table
$1,5.00
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$10-00. Such license when issued shall, bei
-a period of six months,
and shall expire on the last day of June or Decemn r next anter the
T'
s ar,-
e is issued, and shall be non-assignal-..le and non t
tra fable,
and shall be issued on1v to individuals and not, to corT)oration.
I
Section 2. Any person or persons desiring a license under
this ordinance shall make application therefor in writing, over his
or their signature, to the Board Of Commissioners. Such. application
shall state the number of billiard and pool tables to be set, up,
1,-ert and used; the location of the room or rooms in which such tables
are to be set up and used and shall contain a certificate of at least
tvr.o reputable citizens of said cltV as to the Food character of the
a-cl-,,licant or applicants and their recommendation that such license
be granted. Such application shall also be accompanied by a certificate
of the Board of Public Welfare of the City of Salina recomriending the
granting or rejection of the same, and the Board of Commissioners may
grant or refuse such license as in their discretion they ma -,T deem
proper.
Section 3. Accompanying such application, and before any license
is i 4ued,
such applicant shall
deposit with.
the
City Ulerk
a bond
running
the City of Sal...ina,
in the penal
sum
of $500.on,
with a
corporate suety authorized to do business in the State of Kansas,
conditioned thaio intoxicating liquors shall be sold or kept for
sale or free distri11 ion and that no intoxicating 1_1_auor shall be
permitted to be kept or"
d in or about the premises designated in
such application; that such li.cant shall keep an orderly house,
;4 will. not; rermit any person under
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f
billiards or pool on said premises
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nteen years of age to play at
oiter or congregate in or
about such place, and will not permit an:gamblirlg; in or about said
*1 premises, and will. not permit said premises to be connected, directly
or indirectly, with any room or other place in the same or in any
ad oining building where any gambling is carried on off,,,-ermitted,
and will. :i.r all respects satisfactorily observe all of the provisions
and conditions of this ordinance and all other ordinances of t�
Ci_t7r of Salina, relating to the business for which such. licenses ts
asked.
Section 4. If the Board. of Commissioners shall deem the appli-
cant to be a fit person to engage in such. business, and shall approve
such application and the bond submitted therewith, the City Clerk
shall. upon payment of the license tax herein provided for, issue such
license.
Section 5. It shall be unlawful for any person or person,to
keep Xxx open or cause or permit to be kept open any billiard or
pool hall, bowling alley, or any other place where, billiard or pool
tables or other gaming tables or devises are kept for pay on the
first day of the week, commonly known as Sunday, or between the
hours of 11 P. m. and 6 a. m. on any day, or permit any game to be
played therein on Sunday or between such hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.
on any day.
Section 6. It shall be unlawful for the owner, manager, keeper
or Y:erson in charge of any place described in the preceeding section
hereof to permit or allow any person under the age of nineteen wears
to play at or take part in any game in any said place, or to loiter
or congregate in or about any such place.
Section 7. It shall be unlawful for the owner, manager, keeper
or person in charge of any pool or billiard hall to knowingly permit
the use of profane or indecent language or to permit any riotous or
disorderly conduct in such ilace.
Section S. It shall be unlawful for the owner, manage r, keeper
or person in charge of any pool or billiard hall to sell or keep for
sale or free distribution any intoxicating liquors or to permit any
intoxicating liquor to be kept or used in or about said premises,
or to permitany disorder in or about said premises, or to permit
any garnbling in or about said premises.
Section 9. It shall be unlawful for the owner, manager, keeper
or person. in charge of any pool or billiard hall to permit such place
to be connected with any other separate room or compartment either
in the. same or qny adjoining building, unless the connecting doorways
or passageways between such premises and any such room or compartment
shall be at all times kept open and free from any door, gate or other
device which may be shut or locked, and there shall be no door, gate
or other device capable of being shut or locked between any such
pool or billiard hall and any such adjoining room or compartment
either in said room or adjoining room, except that this section shall
not apply to rooms designed for and used solely .for toilet purposes.
Section 9. Every license granted under the provisions of this
ordinance shall be revokable and cancellable at the pleasure of the
Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina, Kansas, irrespective
of any other provision contained in this ordinance for the revocation
of any such license, provided however, that if such revocation or
cancellation shall be made by the Board of Commissioners without or
prior to the conviction of the owner, manager, of such pool or
billiard hall for any violation of this ordinance, the pro rata
portion of the license fee for the unexpired term of the license
shall be returned to the person who shall have paid the same.
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Section 1=0. Any person or persons who shall violate any''of
the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not; less than
$10.00 nor more than $100.00 or be imprisoned not to exceed thirty
days, or shall be subject to both such fine and imprisonment, for
each offense, and upon the conviction of any person or persons to
whom a .License as provided for in this ordinance shall have been
issued, or upon the conviction of any manager, keeper, or person
in charge of any pool or billiard hall licensed under this ordinance,
or any employee thereof, of any such violation, or upon the con-
viction of any of such person of selling or keeping for sale or free
distribution, or of using or permitting the ke<-ping or use of any
intoxicating liquors, or of permitting any gambling in or about said
premises, or upon the conviction of any other person upon the charge
of gambling in or about said premises, the Board of Commissioners may
and
revoke such license,/after any such revocation, no license shall at
any time thereafter be granted or issued to any such person so con-
victed, or in vrhose premises any such act was committed, and upon
any such conviction, an action shall at once accrue upon the bond
given by any such person or persons, and the person or persons to
whom any such license is issued shall be deemed responsible for
and guilty of any violation of this ordinance caused or permitted
by an-iT manager, keeper, or employee of such pool or billiard hall.
Section 1-1. Any person or persons who shall keep or maintain
any pool or billiard table reouired to be licensed. by this ordinance,
without first obtaining a license therefor, or who shall keep or
maintain any such ool or billiard table or keep open any billiard
or pool hall after any such license shall be revoked shall for each
day or part of a day that any such pool or billiard hall is kept
or:en, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and for each separate
offense shall upon conviction be punished by a fine of not less
than $50.00 nor more than $100.00; or by imprisonment not to ex-
ceed thirty,* days, or by both such fine and imprisonment; and pro-
vided further that if any bond given under this ordinance shall. be
cancelled by the surety, or otherw%ise, the operation or use of any
poo)- or billiard table thereafter and before a neva bond is given.
shall be deemed an operation thereof without a. license, and any
such license shall be deemed null and void during any period in
.Th' -ch no bond as herein required is in effect.
Section. That no more than 8 licenses shall hereafter be
granted or be in effect at any time under the provisions of this
ordinance; provided however th�t'"ng h -i "in this section shall be
construed to prevent the r=st�ir�. of licenses to persons now
engaged in such businfW'sACity of Salina, or to bona fide
purchast6q of any such business, but in the event of the cancellation
of tre license of arigr`such person or persons, or of their successors
in business, no additional licenses shall be granted in excess of the
number above specified.
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Section 1.3. At least two copies of this ordinance, and the
license issued hereunder, shall be posted in conspicuous places
in each pool or billiard hall licensed under the provisions of this
ordinance, and a failure to keep such copies and license posted shall
be deemed a violation of the provisions of this ordinance.
Section 14. That Ordinance No. 3255 passed and approved June
14th, 1926 be and the same is hereby repealed.
Section 15. This ordinance shall take effect fror-: and after
JanuarjT lst, 1930, and after its publication once in the official
city paper.
Introduced December 23rd, 1929
Passed December 30 ,?1929
Attest:
�, Mayor
y erk