Any person desiring to engage in the business of operating and conducting a billiard
hall or poolroom shall pay a license fee. The license fee shall be established, from
time to time, by resolution of the city council, after the city council conducts a
public hearing. Any person desiring to obtain a license to operate or conduct the
business of a billiard hall or a poolroom in the city shall make application for the
license therefore in writing to the tax collector, stating in such application where
it is intended to conduct or operate such business, describing the location thereof
sufficiently for identification and the names of all owners of such business. Upon
receiving such application and the payment to him of the amount of the license fee,
the tax collector, shall, after the application has been approved by the city council,
issue to the person a license to engage in the business of operating or conducting
a billiard hall or poolroom at the place so designated in the application. The city
council may refuse to grant any such license if, in the opinion of the majority of
the city council, the establishing and maintaining of a billiard hall or poolroom
at the designated location would be contrary to the public welfare of the community
wherein the applicant desires to establish and maintain such billiard hall or poolroom.
