Every person who deals, plays, carries on, opens or causes to be opened, or conducts any game of chance played with cards, dice or any other device, for money, checks, credits or other thing of value, and every person who bets at any of said prohibited games, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
(Prior code § 3544)
For the purposes of this chapter, "poolroom" is defined to be a room or place where betting or laying of wagers upon the result of races or contests is carried on as a business.
(Prior code § 3542)
It is unlawful in the city for any person, firm, corporation or association, either as owner, lessee, manager, employee, agent or servant, to conduct, manage, carry on, maintain, operate, open, deal or deal in, or cause or permit to be conducted, managed, carried on, maintained, operated, 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 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; provided, however, that no provision of this chapter shall be construed as prohibiting any act made unlawful by the provisions of the general laws of the state of California.
(Prior code § 3545; Ord. 1867 § 6, 1978)
It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association owning, leasing, managing, controlling or having any interest in any property or premises lying within the city to 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 the provisions of Section 9.12.030 of this chapter to be unlawful.
(Prior code § 3546)
A. 
It is unlawful for any person to do any of the following within the city:
1. 
To conduct or maintain any house, room, apartment or place to be used or permitted to be used, in whole or in part, as a gambling house, room or place where any came is played, dealt or carried on with cards, dice or other device for money, merchandise, property or thing whatever or anything of value;
2. 
To knowingly permit any house, room, apartment or place owned by him, or leased to him, or under his management, charge or control to be used, in whole or in part, as a gambling house, room or place for playing, dealing or carrying on any game with cards, dice or other device for money, merchandise, property or thing whatever, or anything of value;
3. 
To play or bet at or against any game which is played, dealt or carried on with cards, dice or other device for money, merchandise, property or thing whatever, or anything of value;
B. 
The provisions set forth in the foregoing section and subsection shall not be construed as being in conflict with the provisions of Section 330 of the Penal Code of the state of California.
C. 
Each provision of the foregoing section and subsection shall be separable, and the invalidity of any portion thereof shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other portion.
(Prior code § 3549)
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 § 3550)
The chief of police of the city 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 same in court to be retained until the final disposition of any case in which said articles may be required as evidence; but in which said 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 § 3551)