No person shall act as lookout doorkeeper, or gamekeeper for
any game played with cards, dice, or any device, for money, checks,
credit or other thing or representative of value, within the city.
(Prior code § 4209; Ord. 1291 § 1, 1971)
No person shall visit any room, within the city, where any game
played with cards, dice, or any device, for money, checks, credit
or other thing or representative of value, is being played or operated.
(Prior code § 4210; Ord. 1291 § 1, 1971)
No person shall operate or exhibit any gambling table, device,
or apparatus, or operate any gaming establishment, or any room or
place for the practice of gambling, or playing games for money, or
other thing or representative of value, with cards, dice, or other
device, within the city.
(Prior code § 4211; Ord. 1291 § 1, 1971)
No person, either as owner or agent, shall knowingly, or after
reasonable notice of the existence thereof, lease or rent any building,
room, lot or other place, within the city, to any person to be used
for gambling or playing games for money, checks, credit or any thing
or representative of value.
(Prior code § 4212; Ord. 1291 § 1, 1971)
No person shall knowingly, or after reasonable notice of the
existence thereof, permit any gambling, game or contest for money,
checks, credit or any thing or representative of value to be played
or conducted in any house or premises owned by, rented by or in lawful
possession of such person.
(Prior code § 4213; Ord. 1291 § 1, 1971)
The chief of police of this city shall seize and safely keep
all chips, cards, boxes, tables, boards and all other articles used
or pertaining to any game played with cards, dice, or any device,
for money, checks, credit, or other thing or 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,
to be then disposed of by the order of the judge of the municipal
court; but nothing contained in this chapter shall prevent the disposition
of the articles at any time when the judge of the court may deem the
articles no longer required to be retained for evidence.
(Prior code § 4214; Ord. 1291 § 1, 1971)
Nothing contained in this chapter is intended to or shall be construed to prohibit the playing, maintaining or operating of any bingo game as defined by Section 326.5(n) of the California Penal Code, if played, maintained or operated in accordance with all provisions of Section 326.5 of the California Penal Code and of Chapter 9.40 of the Monterey Park Municipal Code.
(Ord. 1424 § 1, 1976)
