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COIN-OPERATED MACHINES.

3-4.1 Possession of Devices for Defrauding Coin-Operated Machines.

a. No person, with intent to defraud, shall have in his possession any machine, appliance, contrivance or device of any kind or description used or intended to be used to evade correct payment for the use of any machine or apparatus with a coin collecting attachment, or to prevent the prepayment registering apparatus on any machine or apparatus so equipped from registering correctly the amount so deposited.

b. Any machine, contrivance, appliance, device, instrument or article operated, used, kept, possessed, placed or maintained in violation of paragraph a. is hereby declared to be a nuisance and shall be subject to abatement as provided in paragraph c.

c. When any person has been convicted of, or pleaded guilty to, any violation of paragraph a. or any other provision of this Code or other ordinance of the City or of any law of the State, which offense involved the operation, use, maintenance or possession of any article described in paragraph a. then such article shall be destroyed by the Chief of Police after the plea or after the judgment of conviction has become final. If any article subject to destruction pursuant to this subsection is in the custody of any court, the Chief of Police shall cause an application to be made to the judge of the court for an order releasing such article to him in order that he may comply with this subsection.

(Code 1972 §22-5)

State law reference: Slugs or tokens resembling coins, Penal Code, §648a; use of unlawful devices to defraud coin-operated machines, Penal Code, §640a.