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2 TUE.SDAY -- MARCH 11, 1958 BE IT ORDAINED b-.f the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in regular meeting assembled this eleventh day of March, 1958, that Section 10-27 of Chapter 10 of the Code of the City of Martinsville, Virginia enacted July 23, 1957 as the Code of the City of Martinsville, Virginia 1956, said Chapter 10 titled "Offenses -- 1'Iiscellaneous", S,:ction 10-27 thereof titled "Poolrooms", be amended and re-enacted to read as follows: Section 10-27. Poolrooms -- It shall be unlawful to operate a poolroom or billiard room in the City of Martinsville except in compliance with the following provisions and regulations: No person or corporation shall onerate a public poolroom or billiard room within the Citgr of Martinsville unless the sane shall be located on the ground or street level floor of said bUilding. Said builciing shall have a street level entrance, the front of which shall contain transparent glass windows or glass in the doors so that a view. of the entire poolroom area may be visible to a person five-feet-eight-inches tall standing on the sidewalk immediatel:r in front of said building, and no curtain or partial partition shall be so arranged in the room where pool or billiards are played so as to obscure a clear and unobstructed vision of the area of the room to a person standing at the entrance of said premises. Pool or billiards shall no~ be all~led by the operator of said premises to be played therein between the hours of 11:30 p.m., and 6:00 a.m., or at any time on Sunday. ~."'..' . ~, ~ ~Jo operator of any said poolroom or billiard room shall allow minors under eighteen (18) years of age to participate in any c&~es in said establishment or to loiter, lounge or frequent said establishment unless the minor is accompanied by his parent or guardian or unless the operator has on file in . said premises the signed v~itten consent of either parent or guardian of said minor pe nni tting s aid minor to frequent and play pool in s aid premises, which said consent shall s tate the naIOO and address of the parent or guardian and the minor, setting forth the birth dBte of the minor, the premises to which the consent applies and an.,v limitations on said consent, and provided further that such wirtten consent shall be ':ept and made avail- able by the oper2tor of said premises to any member of the Police IEpartment of the City of l1artinsville at aqy time upon derrand of said police officer. Artr )erson, firm or corporation vrho violates any provision of th:is ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than ?ive Dollars ($5.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for each offense. If the offense violates the provision regarding the floor or s tory upon which the poolroom or billiard room is located, each day the violation continued shall const:. tute a separate offense. An emergency eXisting, this ordinance shall be in force from date of passage.