El Centro Municipal Code Div. 1 Generally

(a) Not more than two (2) poolrooms or billiard rooms, halls or parlors or rooms licensed for the maintenance or conduct of games played with cards, dominoes, etc., as provided in section 4-76 shall be licensed, maintained or permitted on any street in the city between any two (2) consecutive intersecting streets.

(b) No establishment as referred to in the first paragraph of this section shall be licensed, maintained or permitted on Main Street between Sixth and Eighth Streets, nor on Fifth Street, Sixth Street or Seventh Street between State Street and Broadway.

(c) The provisions hereof shall not work a revocation of any license valid and existing, nor while such license shall remain otherwise unrevoked and shall be regularly renewed as required by law.

(Ord. No. 414, § 7; Code 1962, § 3-1)

Cross reference— Zoning generally, Ch. 29.

It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or cause or permit to be kept any playing cards, dice, keno board or other gambling device in any poolroom or billiard hall in the city or in any room or place connected therewith or having any door opening into such poolroom or billiard hall.

(Ord. No. 191, § 1; Code 1962, § 3-2)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 24-05, § 5, adopted Dec. 3, 2024, repealed § 4-63, which pertained to When music may not be played in poolroom or bowling alley and derived from the 1962 Code, § 3-4 and Ord. No. 123, § 1.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person owning, operating or having charge or control of any poolroom or billiard room, hall or parlor to permit any minor under the age of eighteen (18) years of age to play pool or billiards therein or to attend such poolroom or billiard room, hall or parlor or bowling alley as a spectator or otherwise.

(b) There is excepted from the provisions of paragraph (a) of this section any business establishment such as a family recreation center maintaining pool or billiard tables for play, or bowling alley which does not conduct or permit in such establishment any kind of business referred to in section 4-76 for which a license is required pursuant to division 2 of this article, and which does not sell or serve, or permit the sale or service of, any beverages having an alcoholic content.

(Ord. No. 378, § 1; Code 1962, §§ 3-5, 3-5a; Ord. No. 65-13, § 1)

Cross reference— Minors generally, Ch. 18, Art. III.

State Law reference— Age of majority, Civil Code, § 25.1.

The business for which a license is granted under division 2 of this article shall be maintained and conducted in a lawful, peaceful and orderly manner. No person under the age of eighteen (18) years shall be permitted to engage in any game or games maintained or conducted by such business, nor shall such person be permitted to act as a bystander at such games nor to remain on the premises where the same are conducted.

(Ord. No. 61-9, § 1; Code 1962, § 3-11)