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<baltimore-city-law heading="Part 1 – Billiards">
  <section prefix="§" num="2-1" heading="License required.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">No billiard, bagatelle, pool, manhattan, klondike, or rondo table may be erected, set up, kept, or in any respect whatever used for the purpose of gain or public entertainment within the City without a license previously obtained from the Director of Consumer Protection and Business Licensing.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Term.">Every license granted under this section terminates on January 1 annually.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Fee.">For every license granted under this section, the person obtaining it shall pay to the Director of Finance for the use of the City $130 for each billiard, bagatelle, pool, manhattan, klondike, or rondo table.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1879, art. 33, §1</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1893, art. 33, §1</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1927, art. 25, §1</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1950, art. 19, §1</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 15, §8</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 15, §8</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Rev. Ords. 1858-036</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 1860-046</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 1866-027</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 1867-010</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 1879-031</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 1894-023</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 08-107, Ord. 57-1112</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 70-851</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 77-394</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 90-503</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-526</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" />
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="2-2" heading="Prohibited games.">
    <text>Every game or games played upon billiard tables shall be deemed and considered unlawful, and are hereby prohibited, except only the game played with 2 balls, the game played with 3 balls, the game played with 4 balls, and the game commonly called pool, such being the usual games of billiards.</text>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1879, art. 33, §3</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1893, art. 33, §3</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1927, art. 25, §2</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1950, art. 19, §2</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 15, §9</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 15, §9</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Rev. Ords. 1858-036</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§" num="2-3" heading="Hours.">
    <text>It is unlawful for any person having a license to erect or keep a pool or billiard saloon or pool or billiard table as mentioned in § 2-2:</text>
    <para num="(1)">to allow any person or persons to play on or use any pool or billiard table between the hours of 1 a.m. and 7 a.m.; or</para>
    <para num="(2)">knowingly to allow a minor to play on or use any pool or billiard table, or play at any game in that saloon, or be on the premises, at any time.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1879, art. 33, §4</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1893, art. 33, §4</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1927, art. 25, §3</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1950, art. 19, §3</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 15, §10</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 15, §10</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 1869-031</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 09-303</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 20-494</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 49-700</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-526</annotation>
  </section>
  <section prefix="§§" num="2-4 to 2-5" reserved="true" />
</baltimore-city-law>
