No person, either as principal, agent, employee or otherwise, shall keep, conduct or maintain within the City or knowingly permit any house, room, apartment or place owned by him or her or under his or her charge or control in the City where any game mentioned in Sections 330, 330a and 337a of the Penal Code of the State is played, conducted, dealt or carried on with cards, dice or other device for money, checks, chips, credits or any other representative of value.
(Prior code § 2110)
No person either as owner, principal, agent, employee, licensee, lessee or mortgagee shall operate any card table or tables in any store, bar, restaurant, public poolroom or billiard room or cigar stand, or any similar place of business, or any room or place adjoining and connected with the same, within the City.
(Prior code § 2111)
No person shall play or bet at or against any game not mentioned in Sections 330, 330a and 337a of the Penal Code of the State which is played, conducted, dealt or carried on with cards, dice or other device for money, checks, chips, credit or any other representative of value, at any place within the City, except as provided in Section 9.12.060.
(Prior code § 2112)
A. 
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 by means 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 referred to in this Section, any such figure, number, character, symbol, letter design or mark 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 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 or 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 other place or premises.
B. 
No provision of this Section shall be deemed or construed as prohibiting any act made unlawful by the provisions of Sections 319, 330 or 330a of the Penal Code of the State or of any other code section or general law of the State, it being the intent of the City Council to prohibit by this Section all games, operations or transactions described in this Section not prohibited by the provisions of any general law of the State.
(Prior code § 2113)
A. 
Any equipment, machine, contrivance, appliance, game, ticket, chance, share, interest, instrument, paper or article operated, used, kept, possessed, placed or maintained in violation of the provisions of Sections 9.12.020 through 9.12.040, or any part or section of the Penal Code of the State prohibiting gambling, games of chance, lotteries, pool selling or kindred activities are declared to be a nuisance and shall be subject to abatement as provided in this Section.
B. 
Any article declared in this Section to be a nuisance as a result of the operation, use, keeping, possession, placing or maintaining of which any person has been convicted of, or has pleaded guilty to any violation of any law of the State or this Code or any ordinance of the City, shall be destroyed by the Chief of Police after such plea or after judgment of conviction becomes final. The contents of such machine shall be destroyed or, if money, shall be deposited in the General Fund.
(Prior code § 2114)
The following acts, practices or persons are exempt from the operation of Sections 9.12.010 through 9.12.040:
A. 
The giving by an association or licensed business house of prizes and purses for contests or exhibits in a manner otherwise lawful under the laws of the State;
B. 
The carrying on of any game in private homes for purely social purposes;
C. 
Prizes of usual and ordinary value given to one or more players at any game played at a public social gathering;
D. 
Any incorporated or chartered fraternal, labor, benevolent or charitable organization which has been continuously carrying on the activities for which it was organized within the City for a period of not less than five years prior to June 7, 1955, conducting card games not in conflict with any enactment of the legislature of the State; provided, that the playing and conducting of such games is incidental to and not a part of the expressed purposes of such organization, or of its usual activities. No cardroom or card game operated by any such organization shall be open to the public, but shall be used only by the respective members of the organization, and shall be maintained in the building or other quarters principally used by such organization.
(Prior code § 2115)