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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #9 ORDINANCE NO. 9. AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING GAMBLING, BY ANY DEVICE, PROHIBITING THE KEEPING OR CONDUCTING OF PLACES FOR GAMBLING, AND FIXING THE PENALTIES FOR SO DOING. The Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach do Ordain as follows. Sec. 1. — It shall be unlawful for any person, either as principal, agent, employee, mortgagee, or otherwise, to keep, conduct, or maintain, within the City of Huntington Beach, any house, room, apartment or place, used in whole or in part as a gambling house, or place where any game of backgammon, bagatelle, billiards, card games or any kind, carom, checkers, chess, crokinole, pool, or any game of skill or chance whatever not mentioned in Section 330 of the Penal Code of the State of California, is played, conducted, dealt, carried on, opened caused to be opened for money, checks, chips, credit or other representative of value. Sec. 2. — It is hereby declared unlawful for any person, either as principal, agent, employee, or otherwise, knowingly to permit any house room, apartment, or place, owned by him, or under his charge or control, in said City of Huntington Beach, to be used in whole or in part, as a gambling house or place where any game of backgammon, bagatelle, billiards card games or any kind, carom, checks, chess, crokinole, pool, or any game of skill or chance whatever not mentioned in Section 330 of the Penal code of the State of California, is played, conducted, dealt, carried on, opened, or caused to be opened, for money, checks, chips, credit or any other representative of value. Sec. 3. — It is hereby declared unlawful for any person to play or bet at or against any game of backgammon, bagatelle, billiards, card games of any kind. carom, checkers, chess, crekinole, pool, or any game of skill or chance whatever not mentioned in Section 330 of the Penal Code of the State of California, which is played, conducted, dealt or carried on with cards, dice, or other device, for money, checks, chips, credit or any other representative of value, in any house, room apartment or place described in Section 1 of this ordinance in the said City of Huntington Beach. Sec. 4. — It shall be unlawful for any person within the limits of the city of Huntington Beach to exhibit or expose to view in any barred or barricaded house or room, or in any place built or protected or guarded in a manner to make it difficult of access or ingress to the City Marshal of Huntington Beach, or his deputies, when Three or more persons are present, any faro box, or any roulette or fantan table or layout. or any part of such layout, or any cards, dice dominoes, or any gambling implements what so ever. Sec. Sec 5. — It shall be unlawful for any person to visit or resort to any such barred or barricaded house or room, or other place built, protected or guarded in a manner to make it difficult of access or ingress to the city Marshal of the City of Huntington Beach, or his deputies, where any faro box or any roulette or fantan table or layout, or any part of such layout. or any ORD.009 1 cards, dice dominoes or any gambling impliments what so ever are exhibited or exposed to view, when three or more persons are present. Sec 6. — It shall be unlawful for any person, as principal, or agent employee or otherwise, to conduct or carry on, or in any capacity to assist in conducting or carrying on the bisiness of receiving money, or any thing or things of value, or any representative of value, upon the representation or understanding that said money, thing or things of value, or representation of value, is received as a bet or wager, on any race or contest, or on the result of any race or contest, or is received to be bet, or wagered, or placed, or deposited, as a bet or wager, on any race or contest or on the result of any race or contest. Sec. 7. — It shall be unlawful for any person, either as owner, lessee, agent, employee, mortgagee, or otherwise to operate, keep, maintain, rent, use or conduct, within the City of Huntington Beach, any clock, dice, tape, slot or card machine, or any other machine, contrivance, or device upon which money or other representative of value is staked or hazarded upon chance, or into which money or other representatives of value is paid, deposited or played, upon chance, or upon which money or any other article or thing of value is staked, bet, hazarded, own or bet upon chance. Sec. 8. — It shall be unlawful for any person, either as owner, lessee, agent, employee, mortgagee or otherwise, to operate, keep, maintain, rent, use or conduct within the City of Huntington Beach, any machine, contrivance, appliance or mechanical devise upon the result of the action of which money or other valuable thing is representative of value is staked, or hazarded, and which is operated or played, by placing or depositing therein any coins, checks, slugs, balls or other articles or device, or any representative of value, or in any other manner, and by means of the action whereof, or as a result of the operation of which any merchandise, money, representative or article of value, check, or token redeemable in, or exchangeable for money or other article of value, or any other thing of value is won or lost, or taken from or obtained from such machine when the result of the action or operation of such machine, contrivance, appliance or mechanical device is dependent upon hazard or chance. Sec. 9. — It shall be unlawful for any person, either as owner, lessee, agent, employee, mortgagee, or otherwise, to shake or cast, or shake and cast any dice, or similar objects, with the intention to submit upon the hazard or result of such shaking or casting, or shaking and casting of dice or similar objects the determination of what person, firm, or corporation shall pay for cigars or other merchandise, or whether said cigars or other merchandise shall be paid for at all by a purchaser thereof, or with intentions to submit, shake, bet or hazard upon the chance or result of such shaking or casting, or shaking and casting, of dice or similar object, credit, money, or any other article or thing of value, or representative of value. Sec. 10. — Any violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall constitute a misdemeanor, and every person found guilty of violating any of said provisions, shall upon conviction thereof, be fined in the sum of not more than Three Hundred Dollars ($300), or be imprisoned not more than three (3) months in the city jail of the City of Huntington Beach, If there be one, or in the county jail of Orange County, as the City Recorder may direct, or be punished by both such fine and imprisonment. ORD.009 2 Sec. 11 — The City Clerk shall certify to the adopton of this ordinance and cause the same to published once in the Huntington Beach News, a news paper published and printed in the said City of Huntington Beach, and there upon and thereafter it shall take effect and be in full force. Ed Manning President of the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach. MD Rosenberger City Clerk and Ex-officio Clerk of the Board of Trustees. I, M. D. Rosenberger, City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was passed at a regular meeting of the Board of Trustees of the City of Huntington Beach, held on the 15th day of March 1909, by the following vote: Ayes. C. H. Howard, M. E. Helme, C. W. Warner, Ed, Manning. Noes. None. Absent D.O. Stewart. M. D. Rosenberger City Clerk. I, M. D. Rosenberger, City Clerk and Ex officio Clerk of the Board of Trustees of the city of Huntington Beach, hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance is a true and correct copy of an ordinance of the City of Huntington Beach numbered"9," and entitled"An ordinance prohibiting gambling, by any device, prohibiting the keeping or conducting of places for gambling, and fixing the penalties for so doing," and that the same has been published in the Huntington Beach news a news paper published and printed in the City of Huntington Beach according to law. Date published. March 19th 1909 M.D. Rosenberger City Clerk. ORD.009 3 phis Ordinance was reproduced from a handwritten original in its exact form to maintain its historicaCtntegrtty. This typewritten format allows for keyword searching. the handwritten originaCs can be vie wed in the City Clerks office on request.