Chapter 6-08
OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC PEACE AND DECENCY
Sections:
6-08.010 Obstructing sidewalks and highways.
6-08.020 Obstructing entrance to places of public assemblage.
6-08.030 Illegal card and dice games.
6-08.040 Permitting illegal games.
6-08.050 Participation in illegal games.
6-08.060 Betting on illegal games.
6-08.010 Obstructing sidewalks and highways.
It is unlawful for any person to loiter, stand or sit in or upon any public highway, alley, sidewalk or crosswalk so as to in any manner hinder or obstruct the free passage therein or thereon of persons or vehicles passing or attempting to pass along the same, or so as to in any manner annoy or molest persons passing along the same. (OCC § 3-4-14)
6-08.020 Obstructing entrance to places of public assemblage.
It is unlawful for any person to loiter or to stand or sit in or at the entrance of any church, hall, theater or place of public assemblage so as in any manner to obstruct such entrance. (OCC § 3-4-17)
6-08.030 Illegal card and dice games.
Every person who for profit, or for anything of value or for commercial purposes of any nature, keeps, operates, conducts or maintains, either directly or indirectly, in the city, any house, room, apartment, dwelling place or other place where any game, gambling or gaming not mentioned or included in Section 330 or 330a of the Penal Code of the state of California is played, conducted, dealt or carried on whether with cards, dice or any other device of whatsoever nature for money, checks, credit, merchandise or other representative of value shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Every person either as owner, lessor, lessee, principal, agent, employee or participant or otherwise who maintains or keeps or operates or conducts directly or indirectly in whole or in part, or who directly or indirectly is in possession in whole or in part of any house, room, apartment, dwelling place or other place upon or in which any gambling, games or gaming prohibited in this section are played, conducted, dealt or carried on, and who imposes or collects a fee or anything of value for the privilege of participating in any way whatsoever in any such games, gambling or gaming, or who directly or indirectly gains or receives anything of value or any financial profit from playing, conducting or dealing of any such games, gambling or gaming shall, for the purposes of this chapter, be deemed to be keeping, conducting, operating and maintaining the same for profit or commercial purposes. (OCC § 3-5-1)
6-08.040 Permitting illegal games.
Every person who knowingly permits any of the games, gambling or gaming which by Section 6-08.030 of this chapter are made unlawful to be played, maintained, operated, conducted or dealt in any house, room, apartment, dwelling place or other place owned or rented by such person in whole or in part is guilty of a misdemeanor. (OCC § 3-5-2)
6-08.050 Participation in illegal games.
Every person who visits, frequents, participates in or knowingly permits any games, gambling or gaming which by Section 6-08.030 of this chapter is or are made unlawful to be played, operated, maintained, conducted or dealt in any house, room, apartment, dwelling place or other place, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (OCC § 3-5-3)
6-08.060 Betting on illegal games.
Every person who shall place or bet at or against any of the games, gambling or gaming which by Section 6-08.030 of this chapter are made unlawful shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (OCC § 3-5-4)
6-08.070 Bingo permitted.
Bingo games are permitted in the city as set forth in, and subject to the requirements and conditions of, Sections 4-04.020, 4-12.010 and 4-12.020 of this code. (OCC § 3-5-18)