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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. -1- 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 -2- 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 -3- 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. lA4IYt3R' ~F' 1 T4'~f ~~ A ST~i , ~{~1 . 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 . ~ ~ L 0