Inglewood Municipal Code § 5-20 Minors Prohibited in Pool Rooms

It shall be unlawful for any person under the age of 18 years to be in, remain in, enter, or visit, any billiard or pool room, and no person having charge or control of any billiard or pool room shall permit or suffer any such person under the age of eighteen years to be in, remain in, enter, or visit any billiard or pool room; provided, however, that it shall be lawful for a person under the age of eighteen years to carry a package, letter, note, telegram or message to a pool room provided such delivery is a bona fide delivery and the person under the age of eighteen years does not remain in any pool room longer than necessary to make such delivery; and, provided further, that it shall be lawful for a person under the age of eighteen years to be in, remain in, enter or visit any billiard or pool room and to play billiards or pool provided such person is accompanied by his parent or parents.

(Ord. 1338 10-2-56)

As an exception to the provisions of this Section, a person under the age of eighteen years but over the age of thirteen years may, be in, remain in, or visit any billiard or pool room which said billiard or pool room holds a special permit from the Chief of Police for such persons to be in such billiard or pool room. The Chief of Police shall issue such permits only if all of the following conditions are met:

(1) No alcoholic beverages are dispensed, sold, consumed or brought on the premises on which said billiard or pool room is located.

(2) Such billiard or pool room shall have posted at each entrance thereof and at not fewer than three places within said billiard or pool room, a sign in letters not less than one inch in height, reading as follows:

"POSSESSION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IS NOT PERMITTED ON THESE PREMISES. NO PERSON UNDER 18 YEARS IS PERMITTED ON THESE PREMISES UNLESS ACCOMPANIED BY ONE PARENT OR UNLESS HE IS OVER THE AGE OF 13 YEARS OF AGE AND WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM HIS PARENT HAS BEEN PERSONALLY FILED WITH THE MANAGEMENT."

(3) No person under the age of eighteen years shall be permitted in, remain in, enter or visit any billiard or pool room before the hour of 9:00 in the morning or after the hour of 10:00 in the evening nor during hours when school is normally in session; and

(4) No person under the age of eighteen years shall be permitted in any billiard or pool room except in one of the following cases:

(a) Such person is accompanied by one of his parents: or

(b) Such person is over the age of thirteen years and one of his parents has personally filed, in duplicate, with the operator of said billiard or pool room or the Chief of Police, the written consent of such parent to the person under eighteen years of age being present in said pool room, and the original and duplicate of such written consent has been delivered to the Chief of Police and approved by him. When the Chief of Police approves such written consent, he shall return the original with his approval endorsed thereon to the operator of said billiard or pool room and shall keep the duplicate on file in his department.

(Ord. 1902 60-67)