Chapter 7.12
GAMBLING
Sections:
7.12.020 Gambling implements prohibited.
7.12.030 Letting premises for gambling prohibited.
7.12.040 Conducting houses for gambling prohibited.
7.12.050 Betting on games prohibited.
7.12.060 Horse race information.
7.12.010 Gambling prohibited.
A. It is unlawful for any person to play any game of chance for money or tokens of value within the city.
B. It is unlawful for any person to maintain, carry on or expose any gaming or gambling table, contrivance, instrument, equipment or device within the city. (Ord. 47 § 1, 1987; 1987 Code § 6.16.010)
7.12.020 Gambling implements prohibited.
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 of 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 the city built or protected in a manner to make it difficult of access or ingress to peace officers, where any cards, dice or gambling implements whatsoever are exhibited or exposed to view when three or more persons are present; or for any person in the city to become a visitor at any place for the practice of gambling in the city. (Ord. 47 § 1, 1987; 1987 Code § 6.16.020)
7.12.030 Letting premises for gambling prohibited.
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 under his 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. (Ord. 47 § 1, 1987; 1987 Code § 6.16.030)
7.12.040 Conducting houses for gambling prohibited.
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. (Ord. 47 § 1, 1987; 1987 Code § 6.16.040)
7.12.050 Betting on games prohibited.
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. (Ord. 47 § 1, 1987; 1987 Code § 6.16.050)
7.12.060 Horse race information.
No person shall sell or give away, whether from a fixed location or transiently, upon, over or across any street, sidewalk or public right-of-way 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. (Ord. 47 § 1, 1987; 1987 Code § 6.16.060)