Private Acts of 1925 Chapter 619

SECTION 1.  That it shall be a misdemeanor for any person, firm, corporation or any other persons to operate, own, work in or be in any way connected with the owning, operating or working in a public pool or billiard room, tables, or halls, where pool or billiards are played either for pleasure, charge or profit or otherwise in counties having a population of not less than 20,780, nor more than 20,790 inhabitants according to the Federal Census of 1920, or any subsequent Federal Census.

SECTION 2.  That any violation of this Act shall be punished by a fine or not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail or workhouse for a period of not more than three months, or both, at the discretion of the court.

SECTION 3.  That grand juries of said counties shall have inquisitorial powers over offenses herein defined, and it shall be their duty to make inquiry in regard to same, after having been charged by the proper courts relating to this Act.

SECTION 4.  That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the public welfare requiring it.

Passed:  March 30, 1925.