HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrd. 0697ORDINANCE N0. 697
AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE SHAKING OF DICE FOR
MONEY OR MERCHANDISE, PRQHIBITING THE KEEPING OR
PERMITTING TO BE KEPT PLACES FOR PLAYING CERTAIN
GAMES IN THE CITY OF LYNWOOD NOT PROHIBITED BY
SECTION 330 OR 330a OF THE PENAL CODE, PROHIBIT-
ING THE PLAYING OR BETTING AT SUCH GAMES, PRO-
HIBITING THE POSSESSION OF CERTAIN GAMBLING E~UIP-
MENT AND BETTING MARKERS, PROHIBITING THE RENTING
OF TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH WIRES IN CARRYING ON
AN OCCUPATION IN VIOLATION OF PROVISIONS OF 337a
PENAL CODE PROHIBITING THE FRAUDULENT USE AND
OPERATION SF COIN OPERATED MACHINES AND REPEALING
ORDINANCES NUMBERS z32, 233, 299, 323 AND 342.
The City Council of the C:~_ty of Lynwood does hereby
ordain as follows:
Section l. It shall be unlaw£ul for any person, either as
principal, agent, employee or otherwise, to keep, conduct or maintain
within the City of Lynwood any house, room, apartment, or place used
in whole or in part as a place where any game not mentioned in Section
330 or 330a of the Penal Code is played, cond.ucted, dealt or carried
on, with cards, dice, billiard. balls, pool balls, cues, or other
device for money, checks, chips, cred.it, or any other representative
of value or for any merchandise or other thing of value.
Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, either as
principal or agent, employee or otherwise, knowingly to permit any
house, room, apartment or place owned by him or under his charge or
control, in the City of Lynwood, to be used. in whole or in part for
playing, conducting, dealing, or carrying on therein any game not
mentioned in Section 330 or 330a of the Penal Code, which is played,
conducted, dealt, or carried on with cards, dice, billiard balls,
pool balls, cues, or other devices for money, checks, chips, credits,
or other representatives of value, or for any merchandise or any other
thing of value.
bet at
the Pe
card.s,
money,
or for
Section 3.
or against any
zal Code, which
d.ice, billiard
cheeks, chips,
any merchandis~
It shall be unlaw£ul for any person to play or
game not mentioned in Section 330 or 330a of
is played or conducted, dealt or carried on with
balls, pool balls, cues or other devices £or
credits, or any other representative of value
: or other thing of value.
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Section 4. No person shall sell, lease, let or rent any
telegraph or telephone line or wire, or transmit any message over
such line or wire lrnowing that such line, wire or message is to be
used. by any person in conducting or carrying on any establishment or
occupation prohibited by the provisions of Section 337a of the Penal
Code.
Section 5. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation to have in his or its possession in the City of Lynwood
any writing, memoranda, bettin~ marker, or betting sheet, upon which
is recorded any bet or bets or wa~er or wagers, or any purported bet
or bets, wager or wagers, upon the result or purported result of any
trial or purported trial or contest or purported contest of skill,
speed or power of endurance of man or beast, or between man, beast,
mechanical apparatus, or upon the result or purported result of any
xot, chance, casualty, or contingent event whatsoever.
Section 6. No peraon shall possess, exhibit, or expose
to view when two or more other persons are present any part of any
fare box, any pique blocks or pique cards, any roulette, fantan or
craps equipment, or any gambling layout whatever in any barred or
barricaded house or room, or in any place built or protected in such
a manner as to make it difficult of access or ingress to police officers,
Section 7, No person shall resort to, attend or be in any
house, room or other place where there is any gambling device, equip-
ment or paraphernalia which place is barred, barricaded, built or pro-
tected in such a manner as to make ingress difficult to police officers,
Section 8. No person shall have in his possession any tin,
bowl, box or other receptac]e used.for holding, covering, or concealing
any article used as a unit, or any stick, rod or article used as a unit,
or any tool, instrument or other device, used or intended to be used
for the playing of fantan, or any games of any kind or nature, for
money, checks, chips, ered.it, merchandise or other representative of
value.
Section 9. No person, with intent to de£raud, shall have
in his possession any machine, appliance,contrivance or device of any
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kind or description used or intended to be used to evade correct pay-
ment 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.
Section 10. Nc person shall, with intent to d.efraud, deposit
in the coin collecting attachment of any machine or apparatus equipped
with a coin collecting attachment any disk, device, or substance other
than the coin in lawful money of the United States representing the
correct amount of lawful money required. as payment for the use of said
macnine or apparatus so equipped.
Section 11. A. Any machine, contrivance, appliance, device,
game, ticket, chance, share, interest, instrument or article operated.,
used, kept, posseased, placed or maintained in violation of the pro-
visions of:
l. Section 330a of the Penal Code, or
2. Any section enumerated in Part 1, Title 9, Chapter 9
of the Penal Code; or
3. 3ections 1 to 10, inclusive, of this ordinance, is
hereby declared to be a nuisance and shall be sub~ect
to abatement as hereinafter provided.
B. When any person has been convicted of or pleaded. guilty
to any violation of any ordinance of the City or of any law of the
State which offense involVed the operation, use, maintenance or pos-
ession of any art3cle described in Subsection A hereof to be a nuisance,
then such article shall be destroyed by the Chie£ of Police after the
plea or after the ~udgment of conviction has become final.
If any article sub~ect to destruction as hereinafter pro-
vided. is in custody of any court, the Chief of Police shall cause an
application to be made to the judge of said court for an order releas-
ing such article to him in order that he may comply with this section.
Section 12. Every person, firm, association of persons, or
corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be
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punishable by a fine of not less than $10,00 or more than $500.00 or
by imprisonment in the City or County ~ail for a period of not more
than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Section 13. That Ordinances Numbers 232, 233, 299, 323,and
342 be and the same are hereby repealed; provided, however, that
such repeal shall not affect any prosecution for violation of any
provision of said Ordinances Numbers 232, 233, 299, 323, and 342
committed prior to the repeal thereof. That all other ordinances
or parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance be and the
same are hereby repealed,
Section 14. The City Clerk is hereby ordered and directed
to certify to the passage of this ordinance and to cause the same
to be published once in the Lynwood Press, a newspaper of general
circulation, printed, published and circulated in the City of
Lynwood.
First read at a regular meeting of the City Council of
said City held on the 15th day of December , 19 59 , and
finally adopted and ordered published at a re~ular meeting of said
Council held on the 5th day of January , 19 60 , by
the following vote:
Ayes: Councilmen Engl~sh, Finch, Pender, Rowe,
and. Summers.
Noes: Councilmen None.
Absent: Councilmen None.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES: ss.
CITY OF LYNWOOD )
I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the
City of Lynwood, and ex-officio clerk of the Council
of said City, do hereby certify that the above is
a true and correct copy o£ ordinance No. 6j7
adopted by the City Council of the City of Lynwood
and that same was passed. on the date and by the vote
therein stated.
Dated this 6th day of January , lg 60 .
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