HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrd. 0628ORDINANCE N0. (,z8
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD REGULATING
BILLIARD OR POOL ROOMS.
The City Council of the City of Lynwood does ordain
as follows:
Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person under
the age of eighteen (18) years to be in, remain in, enter, or visit
any billiard or pool room.
Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any person having
charge or control of any billiard or pool room to permit or suffer
any person under the age of eighteen (18) years to be in, remain
in, enter, or visit any billiard or pool room.
Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to send
any person under the age of eighteen (18) years to any billiard
or pool room';: or permit, allow, require, or engage any-such person
to carry any package, letter, note, telegram, or message to or from
any billiard or pool room within the City of Lynwood.
Section 4. Any person violating any of the provisions
of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding Five
Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment in the City or County
Jail for a term not exceeding one hundred and eighty days (180) or
by both such fine and imprisonment.
Section 5. This ordinance is urgently required for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety of
the City of Lynwood and shall be in effect immediately upon adoption.
The following is a specific statement showing the emergency of this
ordinance.
The City of Lynwood at present has .no regulations govern-
ing the attendance at billiard or pool rooms by persons under the
age of eighteen (18) years and this ordinance is needed to provide
a legal method by which these persons can be kept out of these
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places, numerous complaints having been received of persons under
the age of eighteen (18) loitering therein.
Section 6. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this ordinance and. cause the same to be published in the Lynwood.
Press, a newspaper printed., published, and. circulated in the City
of Lynwood,
First read at a regular meeting of the City Council of
said. City held on the 3rd day of May, 1955, and finally adopted.
and. ordered. published at a regular meeting of said Council held
on the 7th d.ay of June, 1955, by the following vote:
Ayes: Councilmen Bruner, McMeekin, Pearson, Pender,
Willard.
Noes: Councilmen: None.
Absent: Councilmen:
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
GOUNTX OF L03 ANGELE3o as,
CITY OF LYNWOOD )
I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of Lynwood,
and ex-officio clerk of the Council of said City, do hereby
certify that the above is a. true and. correct copy of Ordinance
No. 628 adopted by the City Council of the City of Lynwood
and that same was passed on the date and. by the vote therein
stated.
Dated this 8th day ~f June ~ lg~,
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