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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 2-6 License required.">
  <section prefix="§" num="2-6" heading="License required.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">No person may erect, set up, keep, maintain, or in any respect whatever use for amusement or entertainment within the City, any bowling saloon, bowling alley, nine- or ten-pin alley, or any other device or structure, in or upon which 1 or more pins are set up, for the purpose of casting, throwing, pushing, or rolling against the pin or pins, 1 or more balls or other missiles, without having obtained a license therefor.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Fee.">For this license there shall be annually paid a sum computed at the rate of $40 for each separate “lane” or “alley”, with a minimum license fee for any 1 location or premises to be $100 annually.</para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Exceptions.">Nothing in this section, however, shall be construed to require any bona fide religious, charitable, educational, or medical institution, operating 7 or fewer “lanes” or “alleys” to obtain a license, as long as any proceeds from the operation of these “lanes” or “alleys” are devoted to charitable purposes exclusively or in furtherance of the purposes of that institution.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1879, art. 33, §5</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1893, art. 33, §5</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1927, art. 25, §4</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1950, art. 19 §4</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1966, art. 15, §11</annotation>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">1976/83, art. 15, §11</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Rev. Ords. 1858-036</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 57-1114</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 70-863</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 81-287</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 99-526</annotation>
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</baltimore-city-law>
