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File #: ORD-1897:004    Version: 1 Name: Regulations for dram shops and saloons
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 4/19/1897 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action: 4/19/1897
Title: ORDINANCE REGULATING DRAM SHOPS AND SALOONS
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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...

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