[Ord. 1382 § 1, 1918]
No person shall aid, assist or permit others to keep or exhibit
any gambling table, establishment, device or other instrument, article
or thing whatsoever to win or gain money or other property of value.
No person shall engage in gambling for a livelihood, or be without
a fixed residence and in the habit or practice of gambling.
[Ord. 1397 § 1, 1918]
Any keeper of or visitor at any gaming table, gambling house,
house for fortune telling, house of ill or bad repute, or other place
of bad device within the city, and any person found in the city who
goes about for the purpose of gaming, or who has in his possession
any article or thing used for obtaining money under false pretenses,
or by not rendering an equivalent value therefor, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor.
[Ord. 1397 § 2, 1918; Ord. 1397 § 3, 1918]
No owner, occupant or lessee of any building, room, tent or
any other place shall allow the same or any part thereof to be used,
occupied or employed for the purpose of pool selling or of playing
at, or betting upon any game or device of address or hazard, for money
or other valuable things.
[Ord. 1397 § 3, 1918]
If any owner, occupant or lessee has knowledge that any pool
selling, or playing at or betting upon any game of address or hazard
is set up or conducted upon the premises of which he is the owner,
occupant or lessee and he does not immediately make complaint thereof
to the proper authorities, he shall be deemed to have knowingly leased,
hired or rented such premises for such purpose, and shall be subject
to the penalties imposed in MMC 729.99(B).
[Ord. 1788 § 1 1928]
It shall be the duty of city police officers upon complaint
made or upon personal knowledge of any such officers that any house
in the city is kept or used for any of the aforesaid purposes to arrest
the persons in whose possession or occupancy the house, room or other
place may be, together with all persons found therein, and convey
such persons before a court of lawful jurisdiction.
[Ord. 1382 § 2, 1918; Ord. 1397 §§ 1, 2, 1918]
(A)
Whoever
violates MMC 729.01 shall be fined not less than $10.00 nor more than
$100.00 and costs, and in default of payment thereof shall be imprisoned
not more than 10 days.
(B)
Whoever
violates any provision of this article for which no penalty is otherwise
provided shall be fined not more than $100.00 for each and every offense
together with costs, and in default of payment thereof shall be imprisoned
for not more than 30 days.
