1912-13 CHAPTER 21 An Act to regulate Pool Rooms, Billiard Rooms, Bowling Alleys and Restaurants. HT [Assented to January 11, 1913.] IS Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan enacts as follows: 1. No person not holding a license therefor under this Act shall open, keep open or carry on the business of keeper of a pool room, billiard room or bowling alley in Saskatchewan for gain or reward either by himself or his servants or employees or by any other person accounting to him for the profits or earnings thereof in whole or in part, nor charge or accept any fee, gain or reward for admission thereto or for the use thereof or for the use of any pool, billiard or bagatelle table therein or of the bowls, pins or other articles used therewith or thereon. 2. No person without holding a license therefor under this Act shall open, keep open or carry on the business of a keeper of a restaurant in any city or town in Saskatchewan. 3. The holder of any license issued under this Act shall be obliged to conform to and obey the lawful regulations of the municipality in which the business for which such license was issued is or is to be carried on, and shall before the same has effect as such first obtain from the municipality such permit or license as it may lawfully impose or require. 4. All licenses to be granted under this Act shall be issued by the provincial secretary and the following fees shall be payable therefor: (a) For a pool room or billiard room license: 5. No person under the age of fifteen years shall be employed or play any game in any pool room, billiard room or bowling alley upon any table or alley therein, nor shall he frequent, enter, remain or loiter in any such room or alley, and any person so doing may if he refuses to leave when lawfully requested to do so, be forcibly ejected therefrom. 6. No drunken person shall enter or remain in any pool room, billiard room, bowling alley or restaurant licensed under this Act. 7. The keeper of any pool room, billiard room, bowling alley or restaurant shall at all times prevent the admission thereto and the loitering and remaining therein of any person prohibited by this Act from so doing, and in any such case may use such force as may be necessary to eject him if he refuses to leave when requested to do so. 8. Every pool room, billiard room and bowling alley shall be closed and remain closed from and after the hour of 11 o'clock on every Saturday night until the hour of 8 o'clock on the Monday morning next following, and on the other nights of each week, from and after the hour of 12 o'clock at night until the hour of 7 o'clock on the next following morning, and during the hours while such room or alley is to remain closed as aforesaid, no games of any kind shall be played therein. 9. The keeper of every pool room, billiard room, bowling alley or restaurant shall be liable for the observance of all the provisions of this Act and shall be responsible and liable for the acts of his servants, which shall be deemed to be the acts of the keeper aforesaid, in respect of every matter or thing happening within any such room, alley or restaurant within the purview of this Act, and such servants as well as the keeper shall be liable to the penalties imposed by this Act for any such offence hereunder. 10. For every violation of section 8 of this Act the keeper of the pool room, billiard room or bowling alley, as the case may be, shall be liable on summary conviction to the following penalties: (a) For the first offence to a penalty not exceeding $50 and costs; (b) For a second or any subsequent offence to a penalty of not less than $25 and not more than $100 and costs. 11. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this Act for which punishment is not herein expressly imposed shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of not more than $50 and costs. 12. One-half of every penalty for any offence in violation of the provisions of this Act charged upon the information of a constable not in the pay or employ of the province shall be paid to the treasurer of the municipality within which the offence was committed for the use of the municipality, otherwise the entire penalty shall be paid to the attorney general for the use of the province. 13. Any bylaw passed or regulations made by the council of any municipality relating to any of the matters provided for in this Act shall be subject to the provisions hereof. 14. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may from time to time make and alter regulations for the licensing, inspection, good order and suppression of any business for which a license is required under this Act, and for the revocation and cancellation of any license granted hereunder, and every pool room, billiard room, bowling alley and restaurant, whether a license has been issued therefor under this Act or not, shall be subject at all times to inspection by such officer as by the regulations aforesaid or by Order in Council may from time to time be authorised in that behalf. 1912-13 CHAPTER 22 An Act to amend An Act respecting Commissioners to Administer Oaths. [Assented to January 11, 1913.} H' IS Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the c. 66, s. 5, 1. Chapter 66 of The Revised Statutes of Saskatchewan 1909, R.S.S. 1909 intituled "An Act respecting Commissioners to Administer added Oaths" is amended by adding thereto the following sections as sections 5, 6, 7 and 8 thereof: commission "5. Every commission issued under this Act unless it is Duration of sooner revoked shall expire at the expiration of two years from the thirty-first day of December of the year in which it is issued. tion of commis "6. Any commissioner for oaths whose commission expires Date of expiraunder the terms of the next preceding section shall write or sion to be noted stamp on every affidavit, declaration or other certificate taken or given by him the date on which such commission expires. (2) Any commissioner for oaths failing to comply with the provisions of this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $10 and costs. on affidavits, etc. commission "7. For every commission issued under this Act there shall Fee for be payable to the general revenue fund of the province such sum as may be fixed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council. existing 4 "8. Every commission heretofore issued under this Act Duration of shall unless it is sooner revoked expire on the thirty-first day of commissions December, 1914." Short title 1912-13 CHAFTER 23 The Saskatchewan Surveys Act. [Assented to January 11, 1913.] IS Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the 1. This Act may be cited as "The Saskatchewan Surveys Act." Interpretation INTERPRETATION. 2. In this Act unless the context otherwise requires the expression: 1. "Minister" means the minister of public works for Saskatchewan; 2. "Department" means the department of public works for Saskatchewan; 3. "Director of surveys" means the director of surveys appointed under the provisions of The Public Works Act, being chapter 11 of The Revised Statutes of Saskatchewan 1909, or any Act passed in amendment or substitution thereof; 4. "Chief surveyor" means the chief surveyor of the surveys branch of the land titles offices for the Province of Saskatchewan; 5. "Iron posts" means: (a) A pointed iron tube not less than three.feet long and not less than three-quarters of an inch in diameter, weighing not less than two and one-half pounds and having the top end plugged and squared for a distance of four inches being of such standard form as the iron posts used by the department of public works; or (b) Solid, round or square iron not less than one inch in diameter and thirty inches long; 6. "Monument" means a post, stake, peg, mound, pit or trench or anything else used to mark a boundary corner or line; 7. "Subdivision survey" means a survey of which it is intended to register the plan under section 79 of The Land Titles Act, Saskatchewan, or any Act passed in amendment or substitution thereof; |