52 of 1963 - Amending Sections 20-2-13 to 20-2-23 of the Revised Ordinances, providing for licensing requirements ROLL CALL l} Salt Lake City, Utah, August 6 196 3
VOTING Aye
I move that the Ordinance be passed.
Christensen . .
Harrison . . . 4✓
MkWit CATO l V
Smart . . .
Mr. Chairman . AN ORDINANCE
Result . . . .
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING Sections 20-2-13 to 20-2-23, inclusive, of
the Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City, Utah, 1955, relating to the
licensing and regulation of card and game rooms and tables.
Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City,
Utah:
SECTION 1. That Sections 20-2-13 to 20-2-23, inclusive, of the
Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City, Utah, 1955, relating to the licen-
sing and regulation of card and game rooms and tables, be, and the same
hereby are, amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 20-2-13. Card and game licenses--individual. It shall
be unlawful for any person to keep, maintain or operate in Salt
Lake City any room where there is played any backgammon, cards,
checkers, chess, chuck luck, dominoes, fan tan, go bang, mahjong,
pachisi, or any other game of a similar nature, or a game played
with beans, buttons, dice, dominoes, coins, chips, or similar
devices, or to keep, maintain or operate in Salt Lake City any
table on which said games are played, where charge is made for
the use of the room, use of the table or for the privilege of
playing on such table or in such room, without first obtaining a
license.
"Sec. 20-2-14. Card and game licenses--Club. It shall be
unlawful for any social club, recreational association, athletic
association, and kindred association, whether incorporated or not,
which maintains a regular club or meeting room or rooms, within
Salt Lake City, to keep, maintain or operate any room or any table
within a room for the purpose of providing members, guests, or
other persons with a place to play any of the games set forth in
the preceding section, without first obtaining a license.
"Sec. 20-2-15. Application for card and game license. Every
applicant for licenses required by Sections 20-2-13 and 20-2-14
shall make application therefor to the License Assessor and
Collector of Salt Lake City and shall file with his application
a statement under oath showing the street and house number of the
place where he proposes to keep, maintain, conduct and operate said
room or table, the name of the place of business and the name of
the club, association or corporation, if any, under which, or by
which, he intends to operate, the number of tables used or intended
to be used in said place for playing said games and the names and
addresses of all officers of such club, association or corporation,
who are to be responsible for the operation of such room or table.
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"Sec. 20-2-16. Investigation and report on application.
Duty of chief of police. The application for such license, to-
gether with the sworn statement of the applicant aforesaid, shall,
by the license assessor and collector, be referred to the chief
of police for an investigation and report, and the chief of police
shall within five days after receiving such application, make
report to the board of commissioners of the general reputation
and character of the person making such application, the general
reputation and character of the place sought to be licensed; the
general reputation of the persons who habitually patronize or
frequent said place; the nature and kind of business conducted at
said place by the applicant or any other person, or by said appli-
cant at any other place; whether gambling of any description has
been carried on or indulged in at said place; whether known
gamblers operate, maintain, conduct or are in charge of or play
at any game or are employed in or about said card and game rooms;
whether said place is or has been conducted in a lawful, quiet
and orderly manner, and he shall add thereto his recommendation
as to the granting or denying of said application.
"Upon receipt of said report from the chief of police, the board
shall act upon said application as it shall deem just and proper
in regard to granting or denying the same.
"It is also hereby made the duty of the chief of police after
a license has been granted to operate and maintain card and game
room and tables, to investigate and examine any place licensed as
such, and if it shall appear from such investigation and examina-
tion that the general reputation or character of the persons to
whom such license has been granted, or that the general reputation
or character of the persons employed in frequenting, resorting to
or entertained at said place is bad, or that any law of the state
or ordinance of the city has been violated in said place since the
granting of such license, or if said place since the granting of
such license has not been conducted in a lawful, quiet and peace-
able manner, the chief of police shall at once report the parti-
cular facts in regard to such matters, or any of them, or any
other matter in regard to which said board should be advised, to
the board of commissioners, with his recommendation in regard to
revoking such license, which board shall take such action in
regard to the revocation of such license as it may deem just and
right.
"Sec. 20-2-17. Card and game license--fee. The yearly license
fee for conducting card and game rooms or tables for the playing
of cards and games shall be $150.00 per year, or any part thereof,
for one table; $200.00 per year, or any part thereof, for two
or three tables; $250.00 per year, or any part thereof, forfour
or five tables; $300.00 per year, or any part thereof,flpr six to
eleven tables; $350.00 per year, or any part thereof,/eleven to
sixteen tables; $400.00 per year, or any part thereof, for sixteen
or more tables.
"Sec. 20-2-18. Doors not to be locked or barred. It shall be
unlawful for any person, licensed under the provisions of this
chapter, to permit or allow in, on or at any licensed premises
any game enumerated in Sec. 20-2-13 to be played behind locked,
barred or barricaded doors or in any locked, barred or barricaded
room, or other place equipped in such manner as to make it diffi-
cult of access or ingress to police officers, to to keep or
maintain in, on, or at said licensed premises what is commonly
known as a lookout, or any signal or alarm device, electric
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buzzer, or any device or agency capable of being used or used, as
a means of giving warning to the presence or approach of police
officers.
"It shall be unlawful for any person to play any game enumerated
in Sec. 20-2-13 behind a locked, barred or barricaded door, or in
any locked, barred or barricaded room, in, on or at any premises
licensed under the provisions of this chapter, or where and when
what is commonly called a lookout is maintained, on said licensed
premises, or where and when said place is equipped with signal
or alarm devices, electric buzzers, or any device or agency
capable of being used, or used, as a means of giving warning of
the presence or approach of police officers.
"Sec. 20-2-19. Unlawful to permit minors to enter card or
game rooms. It shall be unlawful for any person licensed under
the provisions of this chapter, or the agent, manager, or repre-
sentative of such licensee to permit or allow any person under the
age of twenty-one years to visit, frequent or remain in any room
where any of the games enumerated in Sec. 20-2-13 are being played
or operated at said licensed premises.
"Sec. 20-2-20. Unlawful to permit known gambler to operate
games or to work in card or game rooms. It shall be unlawful for
any person, licensed under the provisions of Sections 20-2-13
and 20-2-14, or the agent, manager, or representative of such
licensee, knowingly to employ, hire or suffer any known gambler
to conduct any of the games enumerated in Sec. 20-2-13, or to work
in or about any card or game room or table at said licensed premises.
"Sec. 20-2-21. Unlawful to permit playing on Sunday and other
hours. It shall be unlawful for any person, licensed under the
provisions of Sections 20-2-13 and 20-2-14, or the agent, manager
or representative of such licensee, to allow or permit the use
of said card or game rooms or tables for the playing of, or for
any person to, play any ofithe games enumerated in Sec. 20-2-13
on such card or game room or table, on the first day of the week,
commonly called Sunday, or between the hours of twelve o'clock
midnight and nine o'clock a.m. of any day.
"Sec. 20-2-22. License may be revoked. The license of any person
for the operation of card and game tables may be revoked by the
board of commissioners of Salt Lake City at any time upon notice
and hearing for violation of any ordinance of Salt Lake City or law
of the State of Utah, or for any other good and sufficient reasom.
"Sec. 20-2-23. Planing for money unlawful. Nothing in this
ordinance shall be construed as a license or permission for the
playing of cards and games for money or anything of value, or for
any kind of gaming or gambling."
SECTION 2. In the opinion of the Board of Commissioners, it is
necessary for the peace, health and safety of the inhabitants of Salt
Lake City, Utah, that this ordinance become effective immediately.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall take effect upon its first publi-
cation.
gassed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah, this
,r"}^J, day of August, 1963.
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