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ORDINANCE NO. 34r.
Aid EMERGENCY ORDINANCE PROHIBITING GAMES OF CHANCE AND
DECLARING THE S1r1E TO BE A PUBLIC NUISANCE, AND PRO—
VIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE INCORPORATED CITY OF
LYNWOOD, CALIFORNIA, DOES ORIDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1.
It shall be unlawful for any person to play or bet at,
or as owner or employee to open, deal, play, carry on or conduct
any game of chance played with cards, dice, balls, pins, checkers,
counters, quoits, beans, spindles, tables, wheels, machines, or
any other device, contrivance or apparatus, or with any combina-
tion thereof, for money, checks, or other thing or representative
of value, within the corporate limits of the City of Lynwood,
California.
Section 2.
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation
to permit or house or encourage or protect or promote, within the
corporate limits of the City of Lynwood, California, any game of
chance or other device or contrivance or apparatus or combination
of the same, for money, checks or other thing or representative
of value prohibited by Section 1 of this ordinance.
Section 3.
It is hereby ordained that any person who permits, allows,
conducts or maintains or participates in any game of chance pro-
hibited by Sections 1 and 2 of this ordinance, tends to and does
debauch and corrupt the public morals, encourage idle and dissolute
habits, and draws together numbers of disorderly persons, and
disturbs the public peace, and creates traffic and fire hazards
andthereby is injurious to health, indecent, and offensive to the
senses, and impairs the froe enjoyment of lire and property of
the neople of the City of Lynwood, California.
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Be it therefore further ordained that the maintaining,
conducting, promoting or participating in any game of chance played
with cards, dice, balls, pins, checkers, counters, quoits, beans,
spindles, tables, wheels, machines, or any other device, contrivance
or apparatus, or with any combination thereof, for money, checks,
or other thing or representative of value, within the corporate
limits of the City of Lynwood, California, constitutes a public
gambling nuisance.
It is further ordained that each violation of this ordin-
ance upon any day or night shall constitute a separate offense and
be punishable under the provisions of this ordinance as though the
same were the only violation thereof.
Section 4.
It is further ordained that this ordinance is an emergency
measure and is urgently required for the immediate preservation of
the public peace, safety and morals and health and decency, and for
the free use of property of the people of said City of Lynwood,
California, by reason of tine following facts and conditions, to wit:
That there are at the present time, three or more gambling
houses or places of gambling now being operated within the corpor-
ate limits of the said City of Lynwood, which because of no suffic-
ient law prohibiting or regulating the operation of the same, are
subject to no control or supervision by the police or the admini-
strative authorities of said City of Lynwood; because of recent
decisions of Courts and a lack of proper regulatory and prohibiting
ordinances, places of gambling, commonly known as gambling houses
and gambling establishments have been opened and are now operating
within the said City of Lynwood in defiance of the police and ad-
ministrative departments of said City, and which said gambling
establishments are the proximate cause of a constant and serious
tra hazard and a constant and serious fire hazard, and are
tending to debauch and corrupt public morals and to encourage idle
and dissolute persons to congregate, all of which disturbs the
public peace and which is contrary to health and is indecent and
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offensive to the senses, and an obstruction to the free use of
property and interferes with the comfortable enjoyment of life and
property of the people of said City of Lynwood; that there are no
sufficient statutory provisions to prohibit said gambling and
gambling houses; that this measure is neceasary to prohibit and
abate gambling and gambling houses in said City of Lynwood.
Section 5.
It is further ordained that any person, firm or corpor-
ation violating any provision of this ordinance shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a
fine of not exceeding $300.00 or by imprisonment in the city or
county jail, not exceeding 90 days, or by both such fine and impris-
onment.
Section 6.
It is further ordained that the City Clerk shall certify
to the separate vote on the urgency of this ordinance by the unani-
mous vote of said City Council, and that the City Clerk shall fur-
ther certify to the passing of this ordinance.
Section 7.
It is further ordained that this ordinance shall be
effective immediately after its passage and adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this day of April, 1941.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) SS
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
CERTIFICATE
I, R. «. Anderson, City Clerk of the City of Lynwood,
California, do hereby certify as follows:
That the above and foregoing ordinance was introduced
at the special meeting of tree City Council of the City of Lynwood,
California, held in the council chambers of the city hall of said
City at the hour of 1:00 o'clock�m. upon the r day of
April, 1941. That the City Council of the City of Lynwood, Calif-
ornia voted unanimously that an emergency existed because of the
prevalence of gambling places ana gambling now conducted in the City
of Lynwood in defiance of the police and administrative departments
thereof, and because of no ordinance or statute properly regulating
or prohibiting gambling in said City, there is a present tendency
to debauch and corrupt public morals and to encourage idle and dis-
solute habits, and that numbers of persons are, because of said
gambling, drawn together, disturbinS the peace and quiet of this
City, and jeopardizing the health and the decency of the people of
the City of Lynwood, and impairing the free enjoyment of life and
property in said City, and that because thereof an emergency exists
for the passing and adoption of an emergency ordinance prohibiting
gambling and gambling houses and making, the same a nuisance and a
misdemeanor;
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That said ordinance was read �- t04 and on motiop which
was duly seconded, that the reading of the foregoing ordinance
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; the title to the said ordinance being read the
second time, on motion which was duly seconded that the second read-
ing of the proposed ordinance be waived, the City Council voted
unanimously to waive the second reading of the ordinance; on motion
duly made and seconded, the foregoing ordinance was passed and
adopted said .. ` day of April, 1941.
IN WITNESS INIHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of the City of Lynwood.. -? ..�
City Clerk SE
STATE OF C:ILTFORNIA
COU17TY OF LOS ANGELESS SS.
CITY OF =71100D
i, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City Of
Lynwood, California, do hereby certify that the above
and forgoing ordinance was duly adopted by the City
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Council of said City at a Z)'� ia I
meeting thereof held in the City Ball Of said City, on the
day of A C, r 1 1 —9 19341 P-nd pass-
ed by the following vote:
,'YES: COU�TCIUMT:_ JhricLencenz zi
ABS'ENT: COT*'IIC II; 7 - .0
CT7 — CL - ' , ,RK, -- CTTV OF L77-00D.