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I 3 ~. 2 ORDINANCE NO.~ An ordinance regulating the playing of pool, billiards, cards, dice or any similiar game, and regulating any room or resort in which such games are played in tha City of Eguene and fixing a lioense on card tables, pool~t ablea, and billiard tables, fixing a penalty and declaring an emergency, and repealing conflicting ordinances. THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLO~TS: Section 1. ~o pool room card room or similar resort in the City of Eugene shall be permitted to have or maintain any booth, enclosure or room, other than its main roam, in which cards, dice or other games may be played, and it is hereby made unlawful for any person or persons to maintain in any pool room, card room or similar resort in the City of Eugene, any booth, enclosure, screened off portion of such room, or other obstructed portion shut off from observation, from its main room in which games of cards dice or other devices can be played shut off from observation from any portion of the main pool room, cardroom or similar .place, AlI rooms must be open and accessible at all times to inspection. Section 2. It is hereby made unlawful for any person or persons to play cards, dice or other games, or permit the same to be done, in any pool room, card room or similar place in the City of Eugene, without any room, enclosure, booth or behind any ' j screen or other obstruction, it being the purpose of this ordinance to require all ~ games as herein described to be played in such a manner that they may at all times be inspected and seen from all and any portion of the pool room card room or similar place. ' Section 3. It shell be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation within the I i City of Eugene, to keep open on the first day of the week comonly called Sunday, any billiard room, pool room, dance hall, or any place where any game of chance is played or any public place where any game of ea.rds is played for amusement or otherwise, or i any public place where dice is thrown for amusement or otherwise, or any similar place of amusement. i i Section ~.. Any officer, manager, employee or agent having charge or control of any pool room, card room or similar resort in the City of Eugene, which shall be maintained or operated in violation of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a violation of the terms of this ordinance and punishable as hereinafter provided. Section 5. A Regulatory lioense fee is hereby established for card tables, pool tables and billiard tables as follows; For the first card table X10.00; each additional j table $5.00. For the first pool table $10.00; each additional table X5.00. For the first billiard table $$10.00; each additional table $5.00. The license fee shall be pay- I, able annually in advance on the first day of July in each year. M