ORDINANCE 1223ORDINANCE NO. 1223
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALI-
FORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 5.28 OF THE EL
SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL CODE ENTITLED POOLROOMS
AND BILLIARD ROOMS, BY AMENDING SECTIONS
5.28.020 AND 5.28.080, DELETING SECTION 5.28.060
AND ADDING NEW SECTION 5.28.015.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 5.28.010 of Chapter 5.28, Title 5 of the El Segundo
Municipal Code shall be amended to read as follows:
5.28.10 APPLICATION AND PERMIT - FEES.
As provided for in Section 5.04.125 of this title, it is unlawful for any
person to conduct, carry on, operate or maintain in the city, any
public poolroom or billiard room without a written application for
permit or renewal of such permit therefor granted by the city
council. The permit shall be required in addition to any license
required by any ordinance of the city. The permit shall be grant-
ed, conditionally granted or refused by the city council, in its
discretion, upon formal written application, therefor by the person,
and the application shall specify the name of the person applying
for the permit and the location of the premises where it is pro-
posed to conduct the poolroom or billiard room, and that the
applicant is the only person to be in any manner connected with
the management and control of the poolroom or billiard room.
The application shall be accompanied by a non - refundable fee
which is established to cover the cost of the investigation and
processing of applications.
SECTION 2. Section 5.28.020 of Chapter 5.28, Title 5 of the El Segundo
Municipal Code shall be amended to read as follows:
5.28.020 PERMIT - REVOCATION
Any poolroom or billiard room permit issued pursuant to this chap-
ter may be revoked by the City Council for cause, which would
include but not be limited to, a public nuisance, an action which is
intrusive to adjacent residential areas, a violation of any provision
of this chapter, the El Segundo Municipal Code, or any other law.
Revocation proceedings may be initiated by the City by giving the
permittee at least five days prior notice in writing of the grounds
for the revocation of his or her permit and the time and place of a
hearing before the City Council and shall require him to show
cause why his permit shall not be revoked. The service of such
grounds and notice of the hearing shall be done by depositing the
same in the United States mail, addressed to the applicant at his
address given in the application. At any such hearing the permit-
tee shall be given an opportunity to be heard and defend himself
or herself, and he or she may call witnesses on his or her behalf.
After conducting such hearing, the City Council may revoke,
suspend or further condition any permit held by such permittee.
The City shall notify the permittee thereof in writing within three
days after the decision. If the violation which forms the grounds
for the proposed revocation continues after the original notifica-
tion of such violation to the permittee, the City Manager may
suspend the permit until the time of the hearing. Such suspension
shall be effective immediately upon giving written notice thereof
to the applicant or the person in charge at the poolroom or
billiard room. During such suspension, no person shall be allowed
to play pool or billiards on the permittee's premises.
SECTION 3. Section 5.28.080 of Chapter 5.28, Title 5 of the El Segundo
Municipal Code shall be amended to read as follows:
5.28.080 HOURS OF OPERATION
No pool or billiard room shall be kept open on any day between
the hours of two a.m. and six a.m.
SECTION 4. Section 5.28.060 of Chapter 5.28, Title 5 of the El Segundo
Municipal Code entitled "MAINTENANCE OF PRIVATE ROOMS PROHIBITED" shall
be deleted in its entirety.
SECTION 5. Section 5.28.015 shall be added to Chapter 5.28, Title 5 of
the El Segundo Municipal Code to read as follows:
5.28.015 BILLIARD ROOMS - DEFINED
A poolroom or billiard room is any commercial premises which has
available for the use of its patrons three or more pool and /or
billiard tables, or which utilizes more than thirty percent of total
floor area for the play of pool or billiards.
SECTION 6. This ordinance shall become effective at midnight on the
thirtieth day from and after final passage and adoption hereof.
SECTION 7. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of
this ordinance; shall cause the same to be entered in the book of original
ordinances of said city; shall make a minute of the passage and adoption
thereof in the records of the meeting at which the same is passed and adopt-
ed; and shall within fifteen days after the passage and adoption thereof,
cause the same to be posted in City Hall or published once in the El Segundo
Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated
within said City of El Segundo and which is hereby designated for that pur-
pose.
PASSED, APPROVED AND adopted Ong Ju e 7, 1994.
CarFJacob n, ayor
of the City of El Segundo,
California
ATTE .
Cindy o esen
City Clerk (SEAL)
A ROVED AS TO FORM:
Leland C. Dolley,
City Attorney
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO
L Cindy Mortesen, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, DO HEREBY
CERTIFY that the whole number of members of the City Council of the said City is five;
that the foregoing ordinance, being ORDINANCE NO. 1223 is a full, true correct original
of ORDINANCE NO. 1223 of the said City of El Segundo, California, entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL
SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 5.28 OF THE EL
SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL CODE ENTITLED POOLROOMS AND
BILLIARD ROOMS, BY AMENDING SECTIONS 5.28.020 AND 5.28.080,
DELETING SECTION 5.28.060 AND ADDING NEW SECTION 5.28.015.
which was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council, approved and signed by
the Mayor or said City, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, all at a regular
meeting of the said Council held on the 71H DAY OF JUNE, 1994, and the same was
so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Jacobson, Mayor ProTem Weston, Councilman
Robbins and Councilwoman Friedkin.
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: Councilman Switz
NOT PARTICIPATING: NONE
I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the provisions of Section 36933 of the
Government Code of the State of California, that the foregoing ORDINANCE NO 1223,
was posted and /or published in the manner prescribed by law.
INDY RTE EN
City Clerk of the
City of El Segundo, California
(SEAL)