HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD NO 2180 ORDINANCE NO. 2180 NEW SERIES
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BAKERSFIELD AMENDING THE MUNICIPAL CODE BY
REPEALING CHAPTER 7.32 AND SUBSTITUTING IN
LIEU THEREOF A NEW CHAPTER 7.32 PROVIDING
iREGULATIONS FOR PUBLIC POOL ROOMS IN THE
CITY.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield
as follows:
SECTION 1.
That the Bakersfield Municipal Code is hereby amended by
repealing Chapter 7.32 of Title 7, and substituting in lieu thereof
a new Chapter 7.32, to read as follows:
Chapter 7.32
PUBLIC POOL HALLS
Sections:
7.32.010 Closing Hours
7.32.020 Permit; Application
7.32. 030 Revocation of Permit
7.32.040 Permitting Minors Where Alcoholic Beverage Sold
Prohibited
7.32.050 Minors Prohibited Where Alcoholic Beverage Sold
7.32,060 Card Playing and Card Tables
7.32.~070 Penalty For Violations
7.32. 080 Severability
7.32.090 Posting Copy of Chapter
7.32.010 Closing Hours. It shall be unlawful for the owner,
manager, employee or other person having charge of any public pool
hall or room (defined as any place open to the public where billiards
or pool is played), to keep the same open or allow or permit the
same to be kept open or allow any of the games or amusements to be
played or carried on therein between the hours of two a.m. and six
a.m. of any day, or to allow any person, except the owner, manager,
employee or person in charge thereof, to be or remain therein
between the hours aforesaid.
7.32.020 permit; Application. No license to conduct, manage
or carry on a public pool hall shall be issued to any person, firm
or corporation, until a permit in writing therefor shall have been
granted by the City Manager of the City of Bakersfield and filed
with the City Clerk. No such permit shall be granted except upon
the written application of the person, firm or corporation desiring
the same, filed with the City Manager, stating the place where the
billiard table or room, pool table or room is to be located, and
no permit shall be granted to conduct, manage or carry on a public
pool hall, which is not established and being conducted at the
time this chapter takes effect, unless there shall be filed with
the City Manager the written consent to the granting of the permit,
of owners or tenants of a majority in frontage of property fronting
on both sides of the street on which the establishment is to be
located between the nearest intersecting streets.
7.32.030 Revocation of Permit. If at any time the City Council
of the City of Bakersfield finds that any public pool hall is not
conducted in such a way as may be proper and necessary for the
maintenance of public order, or that such a place is not conducted
in a lawful and orderly manner or that acts of any character con-
trary to the proper police regulations or to the provisions of
this Chapter, are permitted or are not prevented therein, the
Council ma~ after notice given to the holder of said permit, or
his authorized agent, cancel and revoke said permit and such
decision shall be final and conclusive.
7.32.040 Permittin~ Minors Where Alcoholic Beverage Sold
Prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any permittee, or any person,
firm or corporation, his or their employees, servants or agents
having charge, control or management of any public pool hall in
the City of Bakersfield, wherein any alcoholic beverage is sold or
served, to suffer or permit any person under the age of eighteen
(18) years, except when in pursuit of some necessary business, to
be in or remain in, enter or visit such pool hall.
7.32.050 Minors Prohibited Where Alcoholic BeVerage Sold. It
shall be unlawful for any person under the age of eighteen (18)
years to visit, enter or remain in or about any public pool hall
where any alcoholic beverage is sold or served, except when in
pursuit of some necessary business.
7.32.060 Card Playing and Card Tables. It shall be unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation keeping, operating, maintain-
ing or conducting any public pool hall, to have or permit any card
tables or card playing of any description whatsoever, or to have,
permit or allow any entrance to or from any place or room where
card tables or card playing is permitted or carried on.
7.32.070 Penalty for Violations. Any person, firm or corpora-
tion violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall
be punished by a fine not to exceed Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00),
or.by imprisonment in the County Jail of Kern County not to exceed
ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
7.32.080 Severability. If any section, subsection, sentence,
clause or phrase of this chapter is for any reason held to be
unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect the
remaining portion of this chapter. The City Council hereby declares
that it would have passed this chapter and each section and sub-
section thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more of
the sections, established, created, declared to be and shall be
declared unconstitutional or invalid.
17.32.090 Postin8 Copy of Chapter. A copy of this chapter shall
be kept posted in at least two (2) conspicuous places in every
public pool hall in the City of Bakersfield.
SECTION 2.
This ordinance shall become effective thirty days from
3.
and after the date of its passage.
o0o
I t~REBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was passed
and adopted by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 15th day of April, 1974, by the follow-
ing vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN BLEECKER, I-lEI,SE'Y, MEDDt:R~ ROC~[R,,5,, STRONG~ TJ"JOI'~A,,5
~BSTA!NiNG COUNCILMEN: k-'~.,~..~,,..,t.,) ,,,, , , ~m''~-~ .-
the Council of the Uty of Bakersfield
APPROVED. this ~ day of April, 1974
MA~I~ o'f 'the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED as to form:
CITY ATTORNEY of th~ity' of Bakersfield
Affilmuit of lostittg Ori ittatt es
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,~ ss. County of Kern
H. E. BERGEN
xl~~~k~lRStr~, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That he is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield; and
that on ................... ..A.p..r...i..1.._.l..6._ .............................................. 19..7...4... he posted on the Bulletin Board
at the City Hall, a full, true and correct copy of an ordinance passed by the Council of said City
at a meeting thereof duly held on .............. .A.~Z'.j~]....~,.~. ................................ 19..7..4., which ordinance
was numbered ............. ..2...1..8...0. ................. New Series, and entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF BAKERSFIELD AMENDING THE
MUNICIPAL CODE BY REPEALING CHAPTER
7.32 AND SUBSTITUTING IN LIEU THEREOF
A NEW CHAPTER 7.32 PROVIDING HEGUI_A-
TIONS FOR PUBLIC POOL ROOMS IN THE
CITY.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
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