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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances - No. 830ORDINANCE NO. 830 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LODI REGULATING BILLIARD AND POOL ROOMS AND REPEALING SECTIONS 15-12 AND 15-13 OF THE LODI CITY CODE ENTITLEDI'POOL ROOMS--MINORS PROHIBIT ED" THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LODI DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 15-12 and Section 15-13 of the Lodi City Code are hereby repealed and Section 15-12 is rewritten as hereinafter set forth. Section 2. Section 15-12 of the Lodi City Code is hereby adopted to read in full as follows: Sectidn 15-12. Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful for any person, either as owner, principal clerk, agent, servant, or employee of any public billiard or pool room or combination billiard and pool room conducted, maintained, or operated in the City of Lodi, where one or more billiard, pool, or combination billiard and pool tables are kept for hire or public use, to permit, allow, or suffer any minor under the age of 18 years to visit, enter, remain on, or frequent any such public billiard or pool room or combination billiard and pool room. A. Any person desiring to conduct or carry on a public billiard years or pool room where minors under the age of 18/may use said facilities shall first make an application in writing to the Chief of Police. should the Chief of Police find that applicant's billiard or pool room is suitable After investigation for use and patronage of minors under age of 18 years, that the applicant is a proper and suitable person, and that the location and arrangement of the proposed place where said business is to be conducted are satisfactory, a permit may be issued by the Chief of Police permitting a billiard or pool room to be visited, occupied, and used by minors under the age of 18 years, subject to the following conditions: (1) No minor under the age of 18 years may be permitted to frequent any billiard or pool room after the hour of 1O:OO p. m. on any day '. 1. following which any public school shall be in session in the City, or after 12:OO midnight on any other day. School shall be deemed to be in session from the beginning of the first class in any school to the end of the last class in any school in the City of Lodi. (2) The light at the playing level of the tables in any billiard or pool room frequented by minors under the age of 18 years shall be at least fifty-foot candles and the area of play set aside for minors shall be completely open to full public view. (3) The billiard or pool room frequented by minors under the age of 18 years, as pnovided herein, shall be supervised by an adult person over the age of 21 years at all times during which any such minors are present, and such supervisor shall be responsible for the prevention of the violation of any law, State or local, by any occupants of the said billiard or pool room. B.. Should a permitibe denied or, if granted, subsequently revoked or suspended by the Chief of Police, the aggrieved party may appeal to the City Council. Section 3. This ordinance shall be published one time in the Lodi News-Sentinel, a daily newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the City of Lodi, and shall be in full force and take effect 30 days from and after its passage and approval. Attes t: City Clerk 2. State of California, County of San Joaquin, ss. I, Beatrice Garibaldi, City Clerk of the City of Lodi, do hereby certify that Ordinance No. 830 was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Lodi held November 16, 1966, and was, thereafter passed, adopted and ordered to print at a regular meeting held December 7, 1966, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen Culbertson, Hunnell and Walton NOES: Councilmen Brown and Kirsten ABSENT: None I further certify that Ordinance No. 830 was approved and signed by the Mayor on the date of its passage and that the same has been published 3.