Chapter 5.08
CARD ROOMS1
Sections:
5.08.010 Card rooms not permitted.
5.08.020 Gambling is prohibited – Penalty.
5.08.010 Card rooms not permitted.
A. Card rooms for gambling purposes and card rooms operated as a business for fees or charges are not classified as lawful uses of property in the city, either independently or as uses incidental to other businesses or operations.
B. Persons, firms, corporations, associations or other entities or individuals who have lawfully received permission from the city and/or a license under the provisions of former Chapter 5.08 (which was repealed by the ordinance codified herein) to operate a card room before May 26, 1983, and said permission and/or license is in effect on and has not expired by May 25, 1983, may continue to operate the card room for which such permission and/or license was granted, as a nonconforming use under the city’s land use ordinance, subject to all applicable provisions of the land use ordinance pertaining to nonconforming uses; provided, however, that the date before which lawfully permitted card rooms must be in operation to be allowed as a continuing nonconforming use shall not be the date specified in the land use ordinance, but shall be May 26, 1983; and provided, further, that such permission and/or license shall not be transferable or assignable, and any attempted transfer or assignment shall automatically terminate such permission and/or license, and prevent continued use of the premises for which the permission and/or license were issued as a card room. (Ord. 353 § 2(part), 1983).
5.08.020 Gambling is prohibited – Penalty.
Except as to bingo games operated by nonprofit associations in those establishments for which permission and/or a license has been issued for use as a card room and is in effect on or before May 25, 1983, every person who, within the city, deals, plays or carries on, opens or causes to be opened, or who conducts, either as owner or as employee, whether for hire or not, any game for chance, or played with cards, dice or any device for money, checks, credit or other representatives of value, and every person who plays at or bets at or against any of such games, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one hundred eighty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Ord. 353 § 2(part), 1983).
For statutory provisions regarding the prohibition of certain card games and games of chance, see Penal Code Sections 330 and 330a.