1964-1-Ordinance-Providing Regulations for Billiards-01/06/1964ORDINANCE N0. 1964-1
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING REGULATIONS SUPERVISING,
CONTROLLING, AND LICENSING OWNERS AND OPERATORS
OF BILLIARD TABLES IN THE CITY OF SANGER. TEXAS;
DEFINING BILLIARD TABLES; PROVIDING A LICENSE
FEE; PROHIBITING DOMINO GAMES ON PREMISES ?.^THERE
BILLIARD TABLES ARE LICENSED FOR OPERATION;
PROVIDING A PENALTY OF NOT LESS THAN FIVE DOLLARS
OR MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR EACH VIOLATION
OF THE TERMS OF THIS ORDINANCE; PROVIDING THAT
EACH DAY ANY SUCH VIOLATION CONTINUES SHALL CONSTITUTE
A SEPARATE OFFENSE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE;
AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BANGER, TEXAS, HEPrEBY ORDAINS:
SECTION 1
(a) Definition of Billiard Tables.
A billiard table is defined as any table surrounded -by
a ledge or cushion with or without pockets upon which
balls are impelled by a stick or cue.
(b) License Required.
(1) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or
association of persons, or corporation, to own
or operate a billiard table within the incorporated
limits of the City of Sanger, Texas, unless and
until.a license shall first have been issued by the
City of Sanger for such ownership or operation.
(2) Licenses shall be issued by the City Secretary only
when the conditions of this ordinance have been
complied with and the certificate and approval of
the City Marshal appears on the application.
(c) License Terms.
(1) All licenses issued under the terms of this
ordinance shall terminate on December 31st of
each year.
(2) No license shall be issued under the terms of this
ordinance unless and until the applicant shall
present the City Secretary with satisfactory proof
that the annual occupation taxes levied by the
State of Texas and the City of Sanger, Texas, for
each table covered by the license applied for have
been paid in full.
(3) Licenses issued under the provisions of this
ordinance shall be deemed personal to the licensee
and shall not be transferrable from person to
person or place to place.
(d) Application for License.
Any person, firm, association of persons or corporation
desiring a license to own or operate one or more billiard
tables at any single location in the City of Sanger, Texas,
shall file with the City Secretary a written, sworn
application for such license stating.
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(1) The location by street and number of the place
which is proposed to be used, for what purpose
said place is to be used, and the name and address
of the applicant;
(2) if the applicant is an individual, that he is a
law-abiding person, that he has never been convicted
of a felony or a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude,
or if so, the nature of the offense and the result
of the conviction, and the length of his residence
in Sanger;
(3) if the applicant is a corporation, firm, association
of persons or partnership, the names and addresses
of the principal officers, owners, operators, or
partners;
(1�) previous occupation or employment of each person
mentioned in subsections (2) and (3) above for a
period of five (5) years next preceding the filing
of the application; and
(5) the number of billiard tables proposed to be owned
or operated on the licensed premises together with a
floor plan of the building in which such tables are
to be located showing the location of each such table
and the use of each room in the building.
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Application for License.
Each application for a license under the provisions of this
ordinance shall be accompanied by a fee of $25.00, payable
to the City of Sanger, which fee shall not be returnable,
irrespective of whether or not said application for license
is granted. Annual renewal applications for licenses under
the provisions of this ordinance shall also be accompanied
by a fee of $25.00 payable to the City of Sanger.
(f) Ten Day Investigation Period.
All applications for licenses under the provisions of this
ordinance shall be on file at least ten (10) days prior to
the issuance of any such license in order to allow sufficient
time for investigation of the facts stated in the application.
(g) Effect of Misrepresentation in Application for License.
(l) The information required of applicants for licenses
is for the purpose of determining whether or not the
persons operating the licensed premises are fit and
proper persons to be so licensed, and it shall be
unlawful to misrepresent any fact in such application.
(2) Any such misrepresentation shall, in addition to the
other penalties prescribed by law, justify the
revocation of any license granted pursuant to such
application.
(h) Issuance and Handling of Licenses,
(1) iVo license shall be issued under the terms of this
ordinance unless and until the premises, place or
business complies with all laws of the State of Texas,
and all ordinances of the City of Sanger regulating
health, sanitation, fire, building and zoning, nor
untilthe fees prescribed in this ordinance for
applications for licenses have been paid.
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(2) No license shall be issued for the ownership and
operation of billiard tables on any premises where
a hotel, rooming house or lodging house is conducted
in the same building.
(3) Every license issued shall be upon the express,
written condition that it shall be automatically
revoked by the sale, purchase, possession, or use
of any alcoholic beverage on, in, or about the
leased premises.
(�.) The license herein provided for shall state on its
face to whom it is issued, the date of issuance,
the expiration date, the address and location of
the business or premises, and the number of billiard
tables permitted on the licensed premises.
(5) Each license shall be signed and sealed by the
City Secretary and shall be posted by the licensee
in a conspicuous place at or near the entrance to
the premises licensed.
Closing Time.
Premises licensed under- the terms of this ordinance shall
not remain open between the hours of 12:00 o'clock P. M.
and 8:00 o'clock A. M. on the following day, and no premises
licensed hereunder shall remain open or operate at any
time on Sunday.
Domino Games Prohibited.
It shall be unlawful for
any games of any kind t o
premises licensed under
Prohibited Persons,
any licensee hereunder to permit
be played with dominoes on any
the terms of this ordinance.
It shall be unlawful for any licensee hereunder to permit
any known prostitute, procurer, beggar, drunkard, or
criminal character to be present, or participate at or in
any place or business licensed hereunder.
Police Regulations.
(1) Free access and entrance into any premises licensed
hereunder shall at all times be accorded and granted
to the City Marshal and other officers of the City
of Sanger.
(2) The City Marshal shall at regular times to be designated
by him, and at least once a week, cause all places and
businesses licensed hereunder to be visited and
investigated by the police.
Age Limit. _
(1) No person under the age of J,,B'" years shall. be
permitted to attend or take part in any game played
upon a billiard table licensed under terms of this
ordinance unless such person is accompanied by a
parent or guardian.
(2) It shall be unlawful for any person to represent
himself to be either a parent or guardian of any
minor under the age of 18 years for the purpose of
gaining admission of such minor into such licensed
premises.
CITY SECRETARY
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(n) Licensee's Duty.
It shall be the duty of each licensee to prevent
violations of the terms of this ordinance, and a
failure to do so shall constitute sufficient cause
for revocation of any license granted hereunder.
�p� .Appeal from Revocation or Refusal of License.
If any person, -firm, association of persons, or
corporation applying for a license hereunder is
refused such, or after such license is issued, it
is revoked, such refusal or revocation shall become
final after the expiration of ten (10) days from
the date of such refusal or revocation, unless on
or before the expiration of said ten (10) days the
applicant or licensee shall file with the City
Secretary a written appeal addressed to the City
Council of Sanger, in which it is requested that
said Council grant him a hearing on such refusal or
revocation, which said appeal, if made as prescribed
herein, shall operate as a stay, in case of revocation;
said hearing shall be held by the City Council within
thirty (30) days after the date of the filing of such
appeal, and the action of the City Council at such
time shall be final and conclusive as; to all parties.
(p) Private Billiard Tables.
The provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to
billiard tables which are not operated for profit at
private homes, to billiard tables which are not operated
for profit by religious, charitable, or educational.
organizations authorized under the laws of the State
of Texas, or to billiard tables which are not operated
for profit by schools, colleges, and other institutions
of learning, or to billiard tables which are not
operated for profit by the Fire Department of the City
of Sanger; provided, however, that the exclusions
provided by this subsection shall not apply unless the
use of any such billiard table is restricted to
residents of such private homes, members of such
religious, charitable or educational organizations,
or institution of learning, members of said Fire
Department, and their invited guests, and where the
general public is excluded from such use.
SECTION 2.
That any person, association of persons, firm or
corporation violating any provision of this Ordinance shall
be fined upon conviction any amount not less than Five ($5.00)
Dollars nor more than One Hundred (5�100.00) Dollars, and each
day any such violation continues
off ens e .
shall constitute a separate
SECTION 3.
That if any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence,
clause, phrase or word in this Ordinance, or application
thereof to any person or circ n.stances is held invalid by
any court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not
affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance,
and the City Council of the City of Sanger, Texas, hereby
declares it would have enacted such remaining portions despite
any such invalidity.
SECTION l ..
That this Ordinance shall become effective fourteen (l .)
days from the date of its passage, and the City Secretary is
hereby directed to cause the caption of this Ordinance to be
published in the Sanger Courier, the official newspaper of the
City of Sanger, Texas, within ten (10) days from the date of
its passage.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 6
A.D. 196i .
ATTEST:
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