HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance 269ORDINANCE NO.
AN GRDINANCE OF THE CITY GF BEAUMONT PROHIBITING
GAMING, NGT INCLUDED IN SECTIGN 330 GF THE PENAL CODE
OF CALIFORNIA.
The City Council of the City of Beaumont does ordain as
follows:
Section 1. 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 not mentioned or in-
cluded in Section 330, of the Penal Code of the State of California,
played with cards, dice, or any other device of whatsoever nature,
for money, checks, credit, merchandise, or other representative
of value, and every person who plays or bets at or against any of
said prohibited games, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be
punished by a fine of not less than two hundred ($200.00) dollars,
nor more than five hundred ($500.00) dollars or by imprisonment
in the City Jail not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine
and imprisonment.
Section 2. Every person who, knowingly, permits any of
the games mentioned in Section 1 hereof to be played, conducted or
dealt in any house owned or rented by such person, in whole or in
part, is punishable as provided in Section 1 hereof.
Section 3. This ordinance, rescinding all ordinances or
parts of ordinances in conflict herewith, shall take effect thirty
(30) days from the passage hereof, and prior to the expiration of
fifteen (15) days from the passage hereof, shall be published once
in the Beaumont Gazette, a newspaper of general circulation,
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printed and published in the City of Beaumont.
PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 12th day of
1, -ay , 1954.
CITY OF BEAUMONT
By
Attest:
City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
ss.
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE )
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was duly
adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of
Beaumont held on the 12th day of r;:ay , 1954, by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES:, Councilmen Nunez, Ward, Hargrave, Carman and Coverda1
NOES: None.
ABSENT:
(SEAL)
None.
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City Clerk