III. Offenses Against Public Decency

Chapter 9.16
GAMBLING

Sections:

9.16.010    Games prohibited—Penalty for violations.

9.16.020    Devices prohibited—Penalty for violations.

9.16.010 Games prohibited—Penalty for violations.

Every person who deals, plays, or carries on, opens or causes to be opened, or who conducts, either as owner or employee, whether for hire or not, any game of faro, monte, roulette, lansquenet, rouge-et-noir, rondo, tan, fan-tan, stud-horse poker, seven-and-a-half, twenty-one, hokey-pokey, or any banking or percentage game played with cards, dice, or any device, for money, checks, credit, or other representative of value, and every person who plays or bets at or against any of the prohibited games, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail, or the city jail not exceeding three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Ord. 74 § 1, 1934).

9.16.020 Devices prohibited—Penalty for violations.

Every person, who has in his possession or under his control, either as owner, lessee, agent, employee, mortgagee, or otherwise, or who permits to be placed, maintained or kept, in any room, space, enclosure or building owned, leased or occupied by him, or under his management or control, any slot or card machine, contrivance, appliance or mechanical device, upon the result of action of which money or other valuable thing is staked or hazarded, and which is operated, or played, by placing or depositing therein any coins, checks, slugs, balls, or other articles or device, or in any other manner and by means whereof, or as a result of the operation of which any merchandise, money, representative or articles of value, checks, or tokens, redeemable in, or exchangeable for money or any other thing of value, is won or lost, or taken from or obtained from such machine, when the result of action or operation of such machine, contrivance, appliance, or mechanical device is dependent upon hazard or chance; and every person, who has in his possession or under his control, either as owner, lessee, agent, employees, mortgagee, or otherwise, or who permits to be placed, maintained or kept, in any room, space, enclosure or building, owned, leased or occupied by him, or under his management or control, any card dice, or any dice having more than six faces or bases each, upon the result of action of which any money or other valuable thing is staked or hazarded, or as a result of the operation of which any merchandise, money, representative or article of value, check or token, redeemable in or exchangeable for money or any other thing of value, is won or lost or taken, when the result of action or operation of such dice is dependent upon hazard or chance, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punishable by a fine not less than one hundred dollars nor more than three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail, or the city jail not exceeding three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Ord. 74 § 2, 1934).