No person, as owner, manager, or otherwise, shall operate any
public card room, public game room, or any other public place as a
business in the City where any poker game, card game, or any game
of chance for money or anything of value or representative of value
is placed, conducted, carried on, or permitted.
(Prior code § 4120; 2802 § 1, 2011)
No person shall deal, play, open, or operate either as owner
or employee, whether for hire or not, or play, or bet at or against
any game of chance played with cards, dice, or any device, for money,
checks, credit, or other representative of value, within the City.
(Prior code § 4121; 2802 § 1, 2011)
No person shall act as lookout, doorkeeper, or gamekeeper for
any game of chance played with cards, dice or any device, for money,
checks, credit or other representative of value, within the City.
(Prior code § 4122; 2802 § 1, 2011)
No person shall visit any room, within the City, where any game
of chance played with cards, dice, or any device for money, checks,
credit, or other representative of value is being played or operated.
(Prior code § 4123; 2802 § 1, 2011)
No person shall operate or exhibit any gaming table, device,
or apparatus, or operate any gaming establishment, or any room or
place for the practice of gambling, or playing games of chance for
money, or other representatives of value, with cards, dice, or other
device, within the City.
(Prior code § 4124; 2802 § 1, 2011)
The Police Chief shall seize and safely keep all chips, cards,
boxes, tables, boards, and all other articles used or pertaining to
any game of chance played with cards, dice, or any device for money,
checks, credit or other representative of value, and shall produce
the same in court to be retained until the final disposition of any
case in which the articles may be required as evidence; but nothing
herein contained shall prevent the destruction of said articles at
any time upon court order when said articles no longer are required
to be retained for evidence.
(Prior code § 4125; 2802 § 1, 2011)
No person, either as owner, lessee, manager, employee, agent,
or servant shall conduct, manage, carry on, maintain, operate, open,
deal or deal in, or cause or permit to be conducted, managed, carried
on, maintained, operated, opened, dealt or dealt in any game, operation,
or transaction wherein any prize, gift, rebate, compensation, reward,
award, payment, or gratuity consisting of any money, check, token,
credit, goods, wares, merchandise, property, or thing of value is
or is to be given, awarded or delivered, either directly or indirectly,
and wherein chance is a determining factor or is any determining factor
of the result of such game, operation, or transaction, which game,
operation, or transaction is conducted, carried on, maintained, operated,
or played by the throwing, tossing, dropping, depositing or placing
of any ball, marker, object, thing, or substance into any perforation,
hole, or indentation in or upon any surface, receptacle, container,
object, or thing having marked, designated, or identified thereon
by or with any figure, number, character, symbol, letter, design,
or mark of any kind, or by the selecting, designating, turning, indicating,
choosing, or projecting of any such figure, number, character, symbol,
letter, design, or mark of any device, apparatus, or equipment, or
by any means or in any manner, or by the drawing, selecting, choosing,
or removing from any receptacle or container of any ball, disk, object,
substance, or material marked, designated, or identified by or with
any figure, number, character, symbol, letter, design, or mark, any
such figure, number, character, symbol, letter, design, or mark hereinabove
referred to, corresponding to, duplicating, referring to, or relating
to in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, any figure, number,
character, symbol, letter, design, or mark upon any card, paper, board,
fabric, surface, object, substance, or thing, held, used, operated,
or maintained by any player or participant therein or by any person,
where, by any predetermined or prearranged, or by any rule, method,
scheme, design, or procedure any person is found, declared, or determined
to be, or is, or is to be, the winner, donee, recipient, or taker
of such prize, gift, rebate, compensation, reward, award, payment
of gratuity, in the event that any such player or participant pays,
deposits, expends, gives or pledges, either directly or indirectly,
or agrees, promises, or intends to pay, deposit, expend, give, or
pledge, either directly or indirectly, any money, check, credit, property,
or thing of value, or makes or agrees to make any purchase for the
privilege of playing or participating therein or of gaining admission
to the place or premises where such game, operation, or transaction
is or is to be played, conducted, carried on, maintained, or operated,
or to any place or premises.
(Prior code § 4126; 2802 § 1, 2011)
No provision of this chapter shall be deemed or construed as
prohibiting any act made unlawful by Sections 320, 330, or 330a of
the Penal Code, or any other Code section or general law of the state,
it being the intent of the City Council to prohibit all games, operations,
or transactions herein described, not prohibited by any general law
of this state, such as all games, operations, or transactions for
profit commonly known as keno, tango, movie tango, bingo, beano, sill
ball, fortune, quintain, fascination, or inspiration, and all games,
operations, or transactions similar thereto under whatever name they
may be designated.
(Prior code § 4127; 2802 § 1, 2011)
No person shall participate in, play, play in, or engage in, either directly or indirectly, any game, operation, or transaction prohibited by Section 8.20.070.
(Prior code § 4128; 2802 § 1, 2011)
A.
No person,
either as owner or agent, shall lease or rent any building, room,
lot, or other place to any person to be used for gambling or playing
games of chance for money, or any representative of value.
B.
No person owning, leasing, managing, controlling, or having any interest in any property or premises lying within the City shall cause or permit the maintenance or operation in or on such property or premises, having knowledge, or after reasonable notice of the existence thereof, of any game, operation, or transaction declared by Section 8.20.070 to be unlawful.
(Prior code § 4129; 2802 § 1, 2011)
