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ORDINANCE REGULATING DRAM SHOPS AND SALOONS
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Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any keeper of a saloon, tippling house or dram shop, or dealer in liquor in the City of Jonesboro to keep, exhibit, use or suffer to be kept, exhibited or used, or be interested in the keeping or using in any adjoining house, room, place or building subject to the control or direction of anyone interested in the sale of liquor any musical instrument of any kind whatever for the purpose of performing upon or having same performed upon in such building, place or room. Neither shall anyone interested in a saloon or dram-shop permit any fencing, sparring, boxing, wrestling, or other exhibition or contest of dexterity or strength in any saloon, dram-shop or other place under the control and subject to the direction of such saloon-keeper having an entrance to the room in which such saloon is kept.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons interested in the keeping of a saloon or dram-shop or who may be the agent of or employed by any person interested in such business to set up, keep, use or permit to be kept or used in or about such dram-shop, saloon or premises by any other person to be used in connection with such saloon in any manner or form whatever, any billiard table, pool table or any other table, used for gaming or blowing, or tenpin alley, or any cards, or dice or other device used for gaming, or playing any game of chance, hazard or skill, and that the keeper of such dram-shop, saloon or place shall not permit any other person to keep or use in or about his place of business any such tables, cards, dice, musical instruments, etc., to be played upon either for amusement, gain or any other purpose.
It shall be unlawful for any person interested in a saloon or dram shop, either as owner or employee operating the same, to permit any restaurant, lunch counter, or place of eating to be run or operated in any building or room adjoining to said saloon building. It shall be the duty of any person keeping, running or being interested in any saloon or dram shop to permanently close up any entrance or passageway, from any room in which any saloon or dram shop is kept to any restaurant, lunch counter, or place of eating, so that no place of entrance can be made from place to the other without defacing the building or walls thereof. That no door, scuttle hole or other passageway shall be permitted or allowed between any saloon or dram shop and lunch counter, restaurant or place of eating, whether the same is kept locked or not, and no passage shall be had at any time from a room in which a lunch counter or restaurant is kept into a saloon.
Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person owning or operating a dram shop, or saloon or any employee of anyone owning or operating such saloon or any employee of anyone owning or operating such saloon or dram shop to occupy a bed room or any room adjoining thereto, or any other room of such building having an inside entrance to the room in which the saloon or dram shop is kept; provided, that this section shall not apply to a bona fide and licensed hotel, provided that the licensed hotel shall not have a bed room adjoining the saloon.
It shall be unlawful for any keeper of a saloon or dram shop to keep such saloon or dram shop in any house or building unless the same is kept in a house with an unfrosted and unobstructed glass front. No curtains or shutters shall be used on such windows or by any keeper of a saloon or dram shop.
That all screen sin front of any bar shall be removed on Saturday night at midnight, so that there shall be nothing to obstruct the view of any person from the sidewalk to the bar from that hour until five o’clock Monday morning. That in the event that the front of any saloon may be or has be partitioned off for a cigar stand in the front, it shall be the duty of the dram shop keeper to open all doors and passageways leading from the cigar stand to the bar at 12 o’clock on Saturday night and keep them open until Monday morning at 5 o’clock.
It shall be unlawful for the keeper of any saloon or dram shop to keep in such saloon or bar room any chairs, seats or stools, upon which anyone can sit down; neither shall it be lawful for any saloon or dram shop keeper to allow any person to sit down upon any keg, box or barrel, or beer case in such building; provided that stools or chair’s may be kept behind the bar or other enclosure for the exclusive use of the bartender or proprietor.
It shall be unlawful for any dram shop or saloon keeper or any employee thereof to permit any loud boisterous or unusual noise to take place in any saloon or building thereto adjoining under the control of any such saloon or dram shop keeper.
It shall be unlawful for any dram shop or saloon keeper or any employee thereof to permit any minor to stand, sit or loiter in, or around said saloon or dram shop or in front or same.
Any person or persons violating the provisions of this ordinance shall upon conviction thereof be fined in any sum not less than Twenty-five Dollars and each and every violation shall be construed to be a separate offense.
Passed and approved this 19th day of April, 1897