La Mesa Municipal Code Ch. 6.20 Cardrooms, Poolrooms and Bowling Alleys

For the purpose of this chapter a cardroom is hereby defined to be any room or enclosure furnished or equipped with a table used or intended to be used as a card table for the playing of cards and similar games.

(Ord. 1333 § 1; November 27, 1962)

This chapter shall not apply to any private family where cards are played for amusement and no charges made.

(Ord. 1333 § 2; November 27, 1962)

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, society or club, either as principal, agent, employee or otherwise, to engage in, carry on, or to maintain or conduct, or cause to be engaged in, carried on, maintained or conducted, whether for hire or not, any cardroom in the city of La Mesa.

(Ord. 1333 § 3; November 27, 1962)

The proprietor, manager, or agent of such proprietor of any pool or billiard room, shall keep and conduct the same in a quiet and orderly manner, and shall not permit therein the use of any boisterous, offensive, indecent, vulgar, abusive or obscene language.

(Ord. 224 § 6, as amended by Ord. 1333; November 27, 1962)

For every person, firm or corporation conducting, managing or carrying on a billiard, bagatelle or pool table where a charge is made or a fee collected for playing thereon, a fee as established by city council resolution shall be levied per year for one table and a fee as established by city council resolution for each additional table.

(Ord. 2164; September 7, 1978: Ord. 2459 § 4; August 11, 1987)

It is hereby declared unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to conduct or carry on any public billiard room or table or public poolroom or table or billiard or pool business within the city of La Mesa without first having procured a permit in writing so to do from the city council as herein provided, or after any such permit shall have been revoked.

(Ord. 1305 § 3; July 31, 1962)

Any person desiring to conduct or carry on a public billiard room or table or public poolroom or table or billiard or pool business within the city of La Mesa shall make written application to the city council, which shall state the name of the person, firm or corporation desiring to conduct, manage or carry on such place of business, the place where the same is to be located, and a further statement that if such permit is issued, the applicant will not allow or permit any gambling of any kind to be conducted or carried on in the room or place where such business is being conducted and will not allow or permit any profane language therein and will at all times keep and conduct a quiet and orderly place and will not allow or permit any child under the age of sixteen years to be or remain therein unless accompanied by his parent or legal guardian.

(Ord. 1305 § 4, as amended by Ord. 1369; June 25, 1963)

Said application shall be denied unless it appears to the satisfaction of the city council that the applicant has in all respects complied with Section 6.20.070, and that the granting of such application will not be detrimental to the good order and propriety of the city of La Mesa or the inhabitants thereof.

(Ord. 1305 § 5; July 31, 1962)

Any permit issued hereunder may be revoked by the city council at any time whenever it appears to the city council that the holder thereof has violated any of the provisions of Section 6.20.070, or that the longer conducting of such place would be detrimental to the good order and propriety of said city or the inhabitants thereof.

(Ord. 1305 § 6; July 31, 1962)

The city director of finance shall not issue any license to conduct or carry on a public billiard room or table or public poolroom or table or billiard or pool business within said city to any person not holding a permit hereunder or to any person whose permit has been revoked, unless a new permit shall have been issued.

(Ord. 1305 § 7; July 31, 1962)

It is hereby declared unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, conducting, managing or carrying on any public billiard room or table or billiard or pool business within the city of La Mesa to allow or permit any profane language therein and/or to allow or permit any child under the age of sixteen years to be or remain therein unless accompanied by his parent or legal guardian.

It is hereby declared unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, conducting, managing or carrying on any public billiard room or table or billiard or pool business within the city of La Mesa to allow or permit any gambling of any kind to be conducted or carried on within such business or businesses.

(Ord. 1482 § 1; March 23, 1965)

For every person, firm or corporation conducting, managing or carrying on bowling alleys, a fee established by city council resolution shall be levied per year for one alley, plus a fee as established by city council resolution for each additional alley.

(Ord. 2164; September 7, 1978: Ord. 2459 § 5; August 11, 1987)

For every person, firm, or corporation conducting, managing, or carrying on amusement devices not prohibited by Chapter 10.08 or otherwise licensed herein, where a charge is made or a fee collected for playing thereon, a fee as established by city council resolution shall be levied for each amusement device for the first twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) of gross receipts and a fee as established by city council resolution for each additional ten thousand dollars ($10,000) of gross receipts per year.

(Ord. 2182; March 29, 1979: Ord. 2459 § 5; August 11, 1987)

Every person having, maintaining, or operating in any place in the city of La Mesa open to the public any amusement devices defined in Section 6.20.111 herein and the owner of such place where amusement devices are maintained or operated shall comply and be responsible for each and every one of the requirements.

(Ord. 2182; March 29, 1979)

The license issued for maintaining or operating amusement devices shall indicate the number of games licensed and authorized for a particular business establishment. The license shall be posted in a conspicuous place upon the premises, available for inspection by any officer of the city of La Mesa. No license shall be transferable from one person to another. It shall be unlawful to have present more amusement devices than authorized by the license posted.

(Ord. 2182; March 29, 1979)

It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any provision of this chapter. A violation of any of the provisions or failing to comply with any mandatory requirements of this chapter shall constitute an infraction and shall be subject to the provisions of the general penalty clause as set out in Section 1.01.080 of the code of the city of La Mesa, except as provided in Section 1.01.130.

(Ord. 1305 § 8; July 31, 1962: Ord. 2638 § 4; November 23, 1993)