Code of Alabama - Title 34: Professions and Businesses - Chapter 6 - Billiard Rooms

• Article 1 General Provisions.
• Section 34-6-1 Definitions
  As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the respective meanings ascribed by this section: (1) BILLIARDS. Any of the several games played...
• Section 34-6-2 Inspection of billiard rooms
  The chief law enforcement officer of the State of Alabama shall regularly inspect all public billiard rooms in the state for the purpose of ascertaining...
• Section 34-6-3 Authority of municipalities
  The governing bodies of incorporated cities or towns where billiard rooms are operated may fix a license fee for the operation of such billiard rooms...
• Section 34-6-4 Hours when billiard room may be operated
  Repealed by Act 2004-634, p. 1450, §1, effective August 1, 2004.
• Section 34-6-5 Billiard rooms to be kept clean and sanitary
  All billiard rooms shall be kept at all times in a clean, healthful and sanitary condition and shall comply with all the ordinances now in...
• Section 34-6-6 Screens, blinds, partitions, etc
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 34-6-7 Secret doors, connections, etc
  It shall be unlawful for any billiard room to maintain, or permit to be maintained, any open or secret connections, through doors, windows or trapdoors,...
• Section 34-6-8 Keeping or operating pool or billiard tables outside incorporated cities or towns
  Any person who keeps, operates, or exhibits a pool or billiard table on which the public can play, whether for pay or not, outside of...
• Section 34-6-8.1 Commercial operation of billiard tables in certain areas authorized; license required
  All laws to the contrary notwithstanding, any business establishment, which is located outside of the corporate limits of any town or municipality even though it...
• Section 34-6-9 Minors forbidden to play billiards; certificate as to age; proviso as to certain counties
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 34-6-10 Permitting minors to play billiards or pool
  Any person operating or managing a billiard or pool table on which the public can play, whether for pay or not, who knowingly permits any...
• Section 34-6-11 Law as to minors kept posted
  Every licensed billiard room proprietor shall post in his or her room where the tables are operated a placard having Section 34-6-9 conspicuously written upon...
• Section 34-6-12 Gambling in billiard room prohibited; underage customers prohibited in establishments selling alcohol
  No dice, cards, dominoes, or other games of chance shall be permitted, nor any form of gambling allowed in any billiard room, or in any...
• Section 34-6-13 Permitting gambling device in billiard room; penalty
  Any licensee under this article, who knows, or is interested in, or knowingly permits any gambling device mentioned in Section 34-6-12, now prohibited by law,...
• Section 34-6-14 Betting at billiards, tenpins, etc
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 34-6-15 Exemptions from chapter
  The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to include billiard tables or billiard rooms operated by industrial concerns for the exclusive use of...
• Section 34-6-16 Penalties
  Every licensed billiard room keeper who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter, except as herein provided, shall be deemed guilty of a...
• Article 2 Licenses.
• Section 34-6-30 Operating without license
  Every person, firm, or corporation who shall keep or permit to be kept or used any billiard table or tables within a city or incorporated...
• Section 34-6-31 Authority of probate judge
  Authority is hereby vested in the various probate judges within the State of Alabama to license the operation of billiard rooms within the corporate limits...
• Section 34-6-32 Application to probate judge; bond; issuance
  No license shall be issued to any person to operate any billiard room to which the public has access for amusement and recreation who is...
• Section 34-6-33 Surrender of license; credit for unused portion; forfeiture
  If any licensee shall voluntarily relinquish personal supervision, management, and control of any billiard room, he or she shall surrender his or her license to...
• Section 34-6-34 Application to city clerk
  Before any person, firm, or corporation shall be authorized to conduct a billiard room in any city or town in the State of Alabama, it...
• Section 34-6-35 No license issued where billiard room prohibited by city ordinance
  This chapter shall not be construed as authorizing the issuance of any license by city officials or probate judge for the operation of any public...

Last modified: May 3, 2021