74 of 1918 - Amending Chapter 33 of Section 849x1 to x7, Licensing Card tables l
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Neslen be Received and filed. and the accompanying ordinance 1
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I move that the ordinance be passed.
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Mr. Chairman
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An ordinance amending Chapter 33 of the Revised Ordinances
of Salt Lake City of 1913, by adding seven new sections to said
chapter, following Section 849, and to be known as Sections
849x1, 849x2, 849x3, 849x4, 849x5, 849x6 and 849x7, relating
to the licensing of card tables; and amending Section 888 of
said chapter, known as "the penalty clause".
Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake
City, Utah:
SjdCTION 1. That Chapter 33 of the Revised Ordinances of
Salt Lake City of 1913, be, and the same is hereby amended by
adding in said chapter following Section 849, and to be known as
Sections 849x1, 849x2, 849x3, 849x4, 849x5, 849x6 and 849x7,
relating to the licensing of card tables, Said new sections to
read as follows:
SECTION 849x1. It shall be unlawful for any person,
club, association or corporation to engage in the business
of keeping, maintaining or operating any card table on which
games of cards are played, in Salt Lake City, without
obtaining a license so to do.
Every applicant for ouch license shall na.ke application
therefor to the License Assessor and Collector of Salt Lake
City, and shall with his application file a statement under
oath, showing the street and house number of the place where
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he proposes to curry on said business, the name of the club,
association or corporation under vihich, or for or by which
he is operating, and the number of tables used or intended
to be used in said. place.
The application for such license, together with the
sworn statement of the applicant aforesaid, shall by the
License assessor and Collector, be presented to the Board
of Commissioners of Salt Lake City at its next regular
meeting, and shall by said. Board be referred to the Chief
of Police for investigation and report, and he shall within
five days after receiving such application, make report to
the Board of Commissioners of the general reputation and
character of the person or persons 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 applicant at any other i
place; whether intoxicating liquors are or have been served
or permitted to be drunk at said place; whether gambling
of any description has been carried on or indulged in at
said place; whether known gamblers operate, maintain, con-
duct, or are in charge of any card game or are employed in
or about said card 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 for license.
Upon the 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
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Police after a license has been granted to operate and
maintain card tables, to investigate and examine any place
licensed as such, and ttf if it shall appear from such
investigation and examination that the general reputation
and character of the person to whom such license has been
granted, or that the general reputation and 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 peaceable manner, the Chief of
Police shall at once report the particular 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.
SECTION 849x2. The yearly license fee for conducting
card tables for the playing of cards shall be y$25.00 for
the first table and ill5.00 for each additional table, per
year, or any part thereof.
SECTION 849x3. It shall be unlawful for the owner,
keeper, manager or person in charge of any card tables
where games of cards are being played, to permit or allow
any person under the age of twenty-one years to enter,
visit, frequent or remain in any room where said card
tables are being operated or where games of cards are being
played.
SECTION 849x4. It shall be unlawful for the owner, ..
keeper or person in charge of any card table, knowingly to;
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employ, hire or suffer any known gambler to conduct any
card game, or to work in or about said card rooms.
SECTION 849x5. It shall be unlawful for the owner,
keeper, manager or person in charge of any card table to
suffer or permit the use of said card table for the playing
of cards on the first day of the week, commonly called
Sunday, or at any other time, or at all, except between the
hours of 12:30 P. M. and 2 o'clock P. M. of the same day,
and 6 o'clock P. M. and 12 o'clock midnight of the same day;
provided, that card playing may be permitted at all hours
on legal holidays other than Sunday, up until midnight of
said. day.
SECTION 849x6. The license of any person for the
operation of card 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.
SECTION 849x7. Nothing in this ordinance shall be
construed as a license or permission to any licensee to
permit or allow the playing of cards upon chance, or any
kind of gaming or gambling.
SECTION 2. That Section 888 of Chapter 33 of the Nevi sed
Ordinances of Salt Lake City of 1913, known as the "penalty
olause", be, and the same is hereby amended so as to read as
follows
SECTION 888. Any person violating any of the pro-
visions of this chapter, shall, upon conviction thereof, be
punished by a fine not exceeding 1299.00, or by imprison-
ment in the City Jail for a period not longer than six
months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Nothing
herein contained shall be construed to prevent Salt L2.ke
City from recovering the amount of any license herein
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required to be paid, in a civil action brought for such
purpose, as provided by ordinance of this city.
SECTION 3. In the opinion of the Board of Commissioners
it is necessary to the peace, health and safety of the City that
this ordinance become effective immediately.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect upon its
first publication.
Passed by the Board of Conimiss.oneiog of Salt Lake City,
Utah, August , 1918.
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