5.50.010 - Pool rooms and bowling alleys—Permit.

It is unlawful for any person to open, conduct, maintain, or to participate in or permit the opening, conducting or maintaining of, any public pool room or billiard room or place having more than one pool table or billiard table and open to the public for playing pool or billiards, or any public bowling alley or place open to the public for bowling, in the city, unless there exists a valid permit therefor granted and existing in compliance with the provisions of Chapter 5.02. The investigating official referred to in Section 5.02.030, to whom the application shall be referred, shall be the Chief of Police.

(Prior code § 5-4.09)

5.50.020 - Pool rooms and bowling alleys—No private rooms.

It is unlawful for any person conducting or maintaining any pool or billiard room or bowling alley under a permit authorized in Section 5.50.010, or otherwise, in the city, or for any servant or employee of such person, to have or maintain in connection with such pool or billiard room or bowling alley any private room or rooms, excepting rooms used exclusively as toilets or lavatories; and for the purposes of this section, private rooms shall be deemed to be those rooms the entire interiors of which are not exposed to view from the main entrance of such pool or billiard room or bowling alley, or from one of the main rooms regularly and habitually used by the general public for the playing of pool or billiards, or of bowling. A copy of Section 9.12.010 of this code shall be at all times kept posted in a conspicuous place in every pool or billiard room in the city.

(Prior code § 5-4.10)

5.50.030 - Pool rooms—Closing hours.

It is unlawful for any person conducting or maintaining any pool or billiard room under a permit authorized in Section 5.50.010, or otherwise, in the city, or for any servant or employee of such person, to keep open any such pool or billiard room, or permit the same to be kept open, between the hours of one a.m. and nine a.m. next ensuing.

(Prior code § 5-4.101)

5.50.040 - Recovery of costs for extraordinary police services.

A.

Permittee is liable for extraordinary police costs assessed by the Chief of Police or his or her representative pursuant to Title 9, Chapter 9.52 of the Oakland Municipal Code.

B.

Permittee must comply with all applicable local, state, and federal laws or regulations pertaining to pool rooms and bowling alleys.

C.

A violation of subsection A or B of this section by a permittee is an additional ground for suspension or revocation of his or her pool room or bowling alley permit.

(Ord. 12130 § 1, 1999)