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HomeMy WebLinkAbout021 - 12/26/1930 - RELATING TO LICENSES FOR THE OPERATION OF BILLIARD AND POOL TABLES, BOWLING OR PIN AND BALL ALLEYS, � r •
ORDINANCE NO. 21 , 1930
BUNG AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE RELATING TO LICENSES FOR THE
OPERATION OF BILLIARD AND POOL TABLES , BOWLING OR PIN AND BALL
ALLEYS , SHOOTING GALLERIES, STRIKING MACHINES , RING GAMES , BALL
AND PUPPET GAMES AND THE REGULATION OF THE SAME
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
Section 1. That all persons are hereby prohibited
from keeping for gain or hire any billiard or pool table, or
any other kind of table or implement kept or used for a
similar purpose, or any bowling or ball and pin alley, strik-
ing machine, shooting gallery, ring game, ball and puppet game,
cane rack, knife board or any other like game or device within
the corporate limits of the City of Fort Collins, unless said
person shall have first obtained a license or permit therefor
as herein provided in this ordinance.
Section 2 A license to keep for gain or hire
any of the tables, alleys or galleries mentioned in Section 1
of this ordinance may- be granted by the City Council in its
discretion to any person or persons who shall make application
in writing therefor to the City Council, stating therein the
room or place wherein such tables, galleries or alleys are to be
kept and the number of such tables, galleries, or alleys pro-
posed to be kept and shall execute to the City of Fort Collins
a good and sufficient bona with at least two good sureties or
a Surety Company bond, to be approved by the Commissioner of
Safety and Ex-OffiGio Mayor of the City of Fort Collins in the
penal sum of Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars, conditioned that
the person or persons so licensed shall observe and keep all of
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the ordinances of the City of Fort Collins in force at
the time of the issuing of said license, or that may be
passed or adopted during the term of said license Said
application shall be accompanied by the amount of money re-
quired for the license fee
Upon compliance with the foregoing require-
ments, a license may, in the discretion of the City Council,
be granted to the person or persons so applying, authorizing
and permitting him or them to keep for gain or hire any of the
tables, alleys or galleries hereinbefore mentioned, provided,
the City Council may refuse to grant any such license where in
its opinion the applicant is not a person of good moral char-
acter, or for other good cause shown
All licenses issued under this ordinance shall
be signed by the Commissioner of Safety and Ex-Officio Mayor
and attested by the City Clerk, and shall bear even date with
the date of the meeting of the City Council at which said
license is granted, and no license issued under this ordinance
shall be transferable from the licensee except by and with the
consent of the City Council of the City of Fort Collins and at
its discretion and then only upon the filing of a new bond by
the transferee as hereinabove provided, nor shall the licensee
be permitted to operate under said license in any other place
than that mentioned in the application and license without the
consent of the said City Council
Section 3 It shall be unlawful for any
person or persons who shall have been granted a license under
the provisions of this ordinance his or their clerk, agent or
employee, to permit any games for money or other valuable thing
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to be played upon the tables, alleys or galleries mentioned
in Section 1 of this ordinance or to permit any gaming by
means of cards dice or device for playing of games of chance,
or skill and chance within or about the establishment where
such tables or alleys are kept, or to permit any person under
the age of eighteen (18) years to play upon any of said tables
or alleys, or to loiter about or frequent the room or place where
such tables or alleys are kept, except when accompanied by one
of his parents, or to keep open, or permit any person or persons,
except employees of said place, to enter the room or place where
such table, alleys or galleries are kept, between the hours of
12 o 'clock P M and 5 o *clock A 14 of the succeeding day, or
upon Sunday, or to permit any playing upon the said tables or
alleys, or shooting in such galleries, between the hours of 12
o 'clock P M and 5 o*clock Ar 1'4 of the succeeding day, or upon
Sunday
It shall be unlawful for any person under the
age of eighteen (18) years to frequent any billiard hall pool
hall or bowling alley or participate in any game in any such
billiard hall, pool hall or bowling alley or to loiter about
or frequent the room or place where any billiard tables or
alleys are kept and licensed in the corporate limits of the
City of Fort Collins
Section 4 Any license issued or granted under
the provisions of this ordinance may be revoked by the City
Council whenever it shall be made to appear to the City Council
that the person or persons to whom such license was issued, his
or their agent or employee has directly or indirectly violated
any of the conditions of his bond or any of the provisions of
this ordinance or any ordinance of this City relating to the
sale of intoxicating liquors
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Section 5 All licenses issued or granted under
the provisions of Section 2 of this ordinance shall be paid
for at the following rates for each of the tables above
named the sum of 010 00 per year for each pin and ball
alley the sum of $15 00 per year, for each shooting gallery
the sum of $80 00 per year
No license shall be issued or granted for a
longer period than six (61 months, nor until the whole price
for such license shall have been paid
Section 6 A permit to keep for gain or hire
any striking machine, ring games, ball or puppet games, cane
racks, knife boards or any other game or games of the same
nature may be granted by the Commissioner of Safety and Ex-
Officio Mayor of the City of Fort Collins in his discretion
to any person or persons who shall make application in writing
therefor to the said Commissioner of Safety and Ex-Officio Mayor
All permits issued or granted under the provisions
of Section 6 of this ordinance shall be paid for at the rate of
one dollar per day for each day that the said game or device shall
be kept for use within the corporate limits of said City
No permit shall be granted until the applicant
shall have paid the sum of one dollar for each day of the time
for which said permit shall be granted Said device shall not
be used upon any of the streets avenues or alleys of said City
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons
who have been granted a permit as above provided, to use, or
permit to be used, any such game or device upon the first day
of the week commonly called Sunday
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Section 7 Any person or persons who shall
violate any of the provisions of this ordinance, shall, upon
conviction thereof, be fined for such offense in a sum not
less than $5 00 nor more than 6300 00 or may be imprisoned in
the City Jail not to exceed ninety (90 ) days and pay the costs
of suit
Section 8 Ordinances No 5 - 1890 No 1 - 19109
No 11 - 1911 No 17- 1913, No 9 - 1924 and all ordinances
or parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance, are
hereby repealed
Section 9 In the opinion bf the City Council an
emergency exists for the preservation of the public healt1,
peace and safety, and this ordinance shall take effect upon
its passage and publication under and by virtue of the authority
contained in Sections 6 and 7 of Article IV of the City Charter
Introduced, read at length and adopted by the unan-
imous vote of all the members of the City Council at a regular
meeting held this 26th day of December, A D 1930
Commissioner of Safety and Ex-Officio
ATTEST Mayor
City Clerk
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STATE OF COLORADO )
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County of Larimer )
I , A J ROSENOW, City Clerk of the City
of Fort Collins do hereby certify and declare that the fore-
going ordinance, consisting of nine (9) sections, was duly
proposed and read at length at a regular meeting of the City
Council held on the 26th day of December, A D 1930, and was
duly adopted and ordered published in the Fort Collins Express-
Courier, a daily newspaper and the official newspaper of the
City of Fort Collins, by the unanimous vote of all mbmbers
of the City Council, as an emergency ordinance, in accordance
with the provisions of Sections 6 and 7 of Article IV of the
City Charter, and thereafter, on to-wit the 29th day of
T)Pcember A D 1930 , said Ordinance No 21 was
duly published in the Fort Collins Express-Courier, a daily
newspaper published in the City of Fort Collins Colorado
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand
and affixed the seal of said City this 29th day of December,
A D 1930
City Clerk