It is unlawful for any person within the City to exhibit or
expose to view in any barred or barricaded house or room or in any
place built or protected in a manner to make it difficult for access
or ingress to police officers, when three or more persons are present,
any cards, dice, dominoes, fan tan table or layout, or any part of
such layout, or any gambling implements whatsoever; or for any person
to visit or resort to any such barred or barricaded house or room
or other place in said City built or protected in a manner to make
it difficult for access or ingress to peace officers, where any cards,
dice, gambling implements whatsoever are exhibited or exposed to view
when three or more persons are present; or for any person in said
City to become a visitor at any place for the practice of gambling
in said City.
It is unlawful for any person, either as principal, agent, employee,
or otherwise knowingly to let or underlet, or transfer the possession
of any premises for use by any person, or to permit any house, room,
apartment or place owned by him or her or under his or her charge
or control in the City to be used, in whole or in part, as a gambling
house or place for playing, conducting, dealing, or carrying on any
game, not mentioned in Section 330 of the
Penal Code of the State
of California, with cards, dice or other device for money, checks,
chips, credit or anything of value.
It is unlawful for any person, either as principal, agent, employee,
or otherwise, to keep, conduct or maintain within the City any house,
room, apartment, or place used in whole or in part as a gambling house
or a place where any game, not mentioned in Section 330 of the Penal
Code of the State of California, is played, conducted, dealt, or carried
on with cards, dice or other device for money, checks, chips, credit
or anything of value.
It is unlawful for any person within the City to conduct, carry
on, play at or bet upon any game known as peon, chuck a luck or any
other game played with cards, dice or other instruments for money
or for anything of value whatsoever, or to bet with money or anything
of value whatsoever at or upon the result of any of said games or
either of them.
No person shall sell or give away, whether from a fixed location
or transiently, upon, over or across any street within the City any
written, printed or duplicated form, chart, table, list, sheet, poster,
paper dodger, handbill, circular, letter, booklet or any other printed,
typewritten, mimeographed or written matter giving or purporting to
give the entries or probable entries of contestants in any horse race
or other contest concurrently taking place or thereafter to take place
or which has taken place anywhere within the City or any such writing
which gives or purports to give any tip, information, prediction or
selection of, or advice as to the selection of, or advice as to the
winner or probable winner or a loser or probable loser or of the standing
or probable standing of any horse or other contestant therein or any
writing which contains the actual, probable or possible state, past,
present or future of the betting, wagering or odds upon or against
any horse or other contestant in any such horse race or contest.