[HISTORY: Adopted by Mayor and Council of Borough of Wenonah 3-2-2011.]
No person or persons shall set up, keep or maintain or permit
to be set, kept or maintained in any home on premises occupied by
him within the limits of said borough, except in private houses, any
ball or bowling alley, billiard table, pool table, shuffleboard or
bagatelle table, without having obtained a license for that purpose
as hereinafter mentioned.
Said Council may grant on application signed by 12 reputable
citizens of the Borough of Wenonah wherein shall be located such place
or places licensed, said citizens are to be of at least one year's
residence in said borough and who not within a year signed any other
similar application; furthermore, said Council shall not consider
a second application from the same person or from the same premises
in the same year; said Council shall give license in writing to set
up, keep or maintain within said borough ball or bowling alley, billiard
table, pool table, shuffleboard or bagatelle table, and shall in no
case grant said license for a longer time than one year, and such
license fee shall be paid to the Clerks of said borough, with the
additional fee of $2, of which $1.50 shall be for the use of the said
Borough Clerk and $0.50 for the use of the Mayor; the said Borough
Clerk is hereby authorized to collect and receive the said license
fee hereinafter mentioned and pay same to the Treasurer of said borough
for the use of said borough.
It shall be charged to each person licensed as aforesaid and
paid to said Clerk for the use of said borough on issuing above mentioned,
the following sum, to wit: for a license to keep or maintain a ball
or bowling alley, billiard table, pool table, shuffleboard or bagatelle
table, $5 a year for each alley, board or table.
If any person or persons shall set up, keep or maintain in said
borough any ball alley, billiard table, pool table, shuffle-board
or bagatelle table without a license for that purpose first had and
obtained in the manner prescribed in this ordinance, he, she or they
shall, upon conviction thereof, pay a fine of $10 or be imprisoned
in the county jail for the term of five days.
The license above mentioned shall be in the words or to the
effect following:
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Borough Clerk's office of the Borough of Wenonah _____
day of _____ A.D._____, having this day made a correct application
for a license to keep or maintain ball or bowling alley_____, billiard
table_____, pool table _____, and having paid the lawful sum of _____
for such license, the same is hereby granted from this date_____ _____
day of _____ A.D. _____ to the _____ _____ day of _____ A.D. _____,
unless otherwise revoked and no longer: and the said _____ shall use
and exercise this license during said term with the following restrictions,
to wit: the person or persons herein named shall at all times keep
an orderly place and shall not permit any card playing or dice throwing,
reveling or rollicking in or about the premises herein licensed: and
shall not permit any persons under 16 years of age to frequent the
premises herein mentioned, or permit them to play upon any alley,
board or table herein licensed and shall not permit any games played
for drinks, cigars, oysters or any article of merchandise or any amount
of money, and shall close the premises not than 12:00 midnight and
not to open before 6:00 a.m., and shall be obedient to the tenor and
true meaning of the ordinance making and providing for this license,
given under my hand and the seal of the Borough of Wenonah the day
and the year above written.
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______________________ Clerk.
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Any person or persons receiving the above-mentioned license
shall receive the same subject to all the restrictions mentioned therein,
and in the event of the breach of any of the restrictions named therein
it shall be lawful for said Borough Council to take away and deprive
said person or persons of said license or the benefit thereof.
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POOL AND BILLIARD LICENSE
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Borough Clerk's Office _____, having made a correct and
proper application for a license to keep pool, billiard or bagatelle
table at _____, Wenonah, New Jersey, and having paid the lawful sum
of _____ dollars for such license, the same is granted from _____
day of _____ A.D. to the _____ day of _____ A.D., unless otherwise
revoked, and no longer, and the said _____ _____ shall use and exercise
this license during the said term with the following restrictions,
to wit: the person or persons herein named shall at all times keep
an orderly place and shall not permit any card playing or dice throwing
or reveling or rollicking in or about the premises herein licensed,
and shall not permit any person under 16 years of age to frequent
the premises herein mentioned or permit them to play upon any alley,
board or table herein licensed, and shall not permit any games played
for drinks, cigars, oysters or any article of merchandise or any amount
of money, and shall close the premises not later than 12:00 midnight;
and shall be obedient to the tenor and true meaning of the ordinances
and parts of ordinances making and providing for this license.
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Given under my hand and seal of the Borough of Wenonah, this
_____ day of _____ A.D.
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______________________ Clerk.
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APPLICATION FOR POOL AND BILLIARD LICENSES
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To the Mayor and Council of the Borough of Wenonah, State of
New Jersey.
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Gentlemen:
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I hereby make application for a license to maintain _____ pool
or billiard tables at _____ in the Borough of Wenonah, in the County
of Gloucester and the State of New Jersey, and guarantee that good
order will be maintained in and about the room and premises occupied
by me for that purpose. I further promise and declare that I will
not permit any card playing or dice throwing nor will I allow any
game to be played for money, drinks, cigars or any other article of
merchandise, nor will I allow any person under the age of 16 years
to play on said tables nor loiter in or about said rooms or premises:
and, I further guarantee that if said license is granted, I will maintain
these pool or billiard tables and the rooms occupied by me for that
purpose in strict accordance with the tenor and effect of the ordinance
of the Borough of Wenonah providing and governing the same.
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Dated this _____ day of _____ A.D. __________
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To be signed by 12 residents of the borough.
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We the undersigned, residents of the Borough of Wenonah, being
personally acquainted with _____, the above applicant, recommend him
as being a proper person to whom such a license should be granted,
and join in requesting that same be granted by your honorable body.
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