CHAPTER 96

An Act to amend and reenact § 58-896, of the Code of Virginia, relating
to pool and billiard rooms.
[H 385]

Approved March 2, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
te That § 58-396, of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as

ollows:

§ 58-396. Pool and billiard rooms.—Any person who shall keep a
place wherein there is a table at which billiards or pool are played shall
be deemed to keep a billiard room and if any sum is imposed upon the
tables kept therein the same shall be on every table in excess of one capa-
ble of being used for the purpose. and kept therein, whether used or not.
Any person who shall keep a billiard room without a license shall pay a
fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for
each day he may continue to keep the same.
Every person who shall keep a billiard or poolroom shall pay for the
privilege the sum of fifty dollars and the sum of twenty-five dollars for
each table over one kept or to be kept therein. If the license be for a
billiard or poolroom at a watering place and is for four months or less,
the sum to be paid shall be twenty-five dollars and the sum of twelve
dollars and fifty cents for each table over one kept or to be kept thereat.
Licenses to keepers of billiard tables or pool tables at watering places may
terminate on the thirty-first day of December, or at the end of four months,
whichever may happen first. If the license be for a billiard or poolroom in
the country or in a town of less than one thousand inhabitants, the sum to
be paid shall be twenty-five dollars and twelve dollars and fifty cents for
each table over one kept or to be kept therein. The word “billiard” as
herein used shall be construed to include bagatelle.

Nothing in this section shall apply to a place in which not more than
three miniature pool tables that operate on the coin-in-the-slot principle
are exclusively kept or played.