La Puente Municipal Code Ch. 5.20 Billiard Rooms

Sections:

• 5.20.010 Permit required.

• 5.20.020 Definitions.

• 5.20.030 Additional information required for application.

• 5.20.040 Authorization of location.

• 5.20.050 Operating requirements.

• 5.20.060 Additional grounds for modification, revocation or suspension.

*Prior ordinance history: Ord. 1 §§ 4501—4554, Ords. 90 and 644.

No person shall engage in, conduct or carry on the business of operating a billiard club or a public billiard room without a permit issued pursuant to Chapter 5.08 of this title. If any of the provisions of Chapter 5.08 of this title conflict with the provisions of this chapter, the provisions of this chapter shall prevail as to all matters and questions arising out of the subject matter of this chapter.

(Ord. 788 § 4 (part), 1999)

For purposes of this Chapter, unless it is plainly evident from the context that a different meaning is intended, the following definitions shall apply:

“Billiard club” means a proprietary club where billiards, bagatelle or pool is played, or in which any billiard, bagatelle or pool table is kept and persons are permitted to play or do play thereon, whether any compensation or reward is charged for the use of such table or not. “Billiard club” does not include a place having only one coin-operated table for billiards, bagatelle or pool if the table is maintained as an incident to some other type of business or activity.

“Billiards, bagatelle, or pool” means a game, played on an oblong table, whose object is to hit balls into pockets around the table’s ledge by means of a cue or stick.

“Director” means the community development director of the city of La Puente or his or her designee.

“Permittee” means any person with a permit to operate a public billiard room or billiard club.

“Person” means any individual, firm, business, partnership, corporation, cooperative, company, association, joint stock association, church, religious sect, religious denomination, society, organization, or league and shall include any trustee, receiver, assignee, agent, solicitor, or other similar representative thereof.

“Public billiard room” means any place open to the public where billiards, bagatelle or pool is played, or in which any billiard, bagatelle or pool table is kept and people are permitted to play or do play thereon, whether any compensation or reward is charged for the use of such table or not. “Public billiard room” does not include a place having only one table for billiards, bagatelle or pool if the table is maintained as an incident to some other type of business or activity.

(Ord. 788 § 4 (part), 1999)

In addition to the information required in Section 5.08.030(a), an applicant for a permit to operate a billiard club or public billiard room shall state the exact location of the place where the public billiard room or billiard club is to be located or, if the billiard club or public billiard room is only a part of a greater business establishment, the applicant shall state where within the business establishment the public billiard room or billiard club is to be located.

(Ord. 788 § 4 (part), 1999)

Any permit issued to conduct a billiard club or public billiard room shall authorize such billiard club or public billiard room only at the place described in the application and by the person who makes such application.

(Ord. 788 § 4 (part), 1999)

(a) Visibility of Interior of Premises. Every billiard club or public billiard room shall be maintained so as to provide a clear and unobstructed view of the entire interior of the public billiard room or billiard club from the entrance into such room or club.

(b) Hours of Operation. No public billiard room, billiard club or similar place of business shall be open from two a.m. until six a.m. of any day, nor shall an owner, manager, proprietor or other person having charge of any billiard club or public billiard room keep the same open or allow or permit any game to be played therein from two a.m. to six a.m. of any day. No person may remain on the premises of any public billiard room or billiard club during the hours when such public billiard room or billiard club is closed or required by this section to be closed, except the owner and regular employees.

(c) Age Restrictions. The owner, manager, proprietor or other person in charge of any public billiard room or billiard club shall not allow or permit any person under the age of eighteen to be, remain in, enter or visit such place unless:

(1) Such minor is accompanied by one of his or her parents, guardian or spouse twenty-one years of age or older; or

(2) Such parent or guardian personally provides written consent to the owner, manager, proprietor or such other person in charge, but this exception only applies if alcoholic beverages are neither sold nor served in such place, and such place has no license to sell, dispense or serve alcoholic beverages. The written consent shall be in the manner and form approved by the diretor.

(d) Disorderly Persons. No owner, manager, proprietor or other person in charge of any public billiard room or billiard club shall allow or permit any intoxicated, quarreling or disorderly person or persons to be or remain in such place.

(e) Gambling. No billiards, bagatelle or pool shall occur in any billiard club or public billiard room where the permittee tolerates or permits gambling to take place.

(Ord. 788 § 4 (part), 1999)

In addition to the grounds set forth in Section 5.08.110(b) of this title, a permit issued pursuant to this chapter may be modified, suspended or revoked if the permittee violates any of the provisions of this chapter on two separate occasions within a twelve-month period.

(Ord. 788 § 4 (part), 1999)