HomeMy WebLinkAbout26 - Prohibiting Certain Games of ChanceORDINANCE RTO. 26
AN ORDINANCA PROHIBITING C]MTAIN GAMES OF CHANCE IN THE INCORPORATED TERRITORY
OF THE CITY OF COSTA MZSA AND PROHIBITING THE MAINTMUNC2 OR OPERATION OF
CERTAIN PLACES.
The City Council of the City of Costa Mesa does ordain as follows:
Section. 1.
Every person who for profit, or for anything of value, or for commercial
purposes of any nature, keeps, operates, conducts or maintains, either directly
or indirectly, in the incorporated territory of the City of Costa Mesa, any house,
room, apartment, dwelling place, or other Mace where any game, gambling, or
gaming not mentioned or included in Section 330 or 330a of the Penal Code of
the State of California is played, conducted, dealt or carried on, whether with
cards, dice or any other device of whatsoever nature for money, checks, credit,
merchandise or other representative of value shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than Five
Hundred ($500,00) Dollars, or by imprisonment in the County or City Jail not
exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment,
Every person either as owner, lessor, lessee, principal, agent, employee
or participant or otherwise who maintains or keeps or operates or conducts,
directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, or who, directly or indirectly,
is in possession, in whole or in part, of any house, room, apartment, dwelling
place or other place upon or in which any gambling, games or gaming prohibited
in this section are played, conducted, dealt, or carried on, and who imposes
or collects a fee or anything of value for the privilege of participating in
any way whatsoever in any such games, gambling or gaming, or who, directly or
indirectly, gains or receives anything of values or any financial profit from
playting, conducting, or dealing of any such games, gambling or gaming shall
for the purposes of this ordinance be deemed to be keeping, conducting, operat-
ing and maintaining the same for profit or commercial purposes.
Section 2.
Every person who knowingly permits any of the games, gambling or gaming
which by Section 1 hereof are made unlawful to be played, maintained, operated,
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conducted or dealt in any house, room, apartment, dwelling; place or other place
owned or rented by such person in wrote or in part is punishable as provided in
Section 1 hereof.
Section 3.
Every person who visits, frequents, participates in or knowingly permits
any games, gambli.n- or naming which by Section l hereof is or are made unlawful
to be played, operated, maintained, conducted or dealt in any house, room,
apartment, dwelling place or other place, shall. be miilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon convl,ction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than Five hundred
($500.00) ;a' l.ar; , or by imprisonment in .`. :- `-,vnty or City Jail., not exceeding
six. (6) months, or by both fine and impr.i.sonmrnt.
��ction 1a.
Fvery person who shall glace or bet at or against any of the games,
gamhlinr, or gaming which by Section 1. hereof are made unlawful shall be punish-
able as provided in Section 1 hereof.
Section 5.
If any section, paragraph, sentence, nlause or phrase of this Ordinance
is for any reason held to be unconstitutional_ or invalid, such decision shall
not affect the validity or constituionality of the rFinaining portions of this
Ordinance. The City Council hereby declares khat it would have passed this
Ordinance, and each section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase
thereof, irrespective of the fact that one or more of the sections, subsections,
paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases thereof be delcared unconstitutional
or invalid.
Section 6.
This Ordinance shall t. lce effect and be in full force thirty (30) days
from and after :its passage, and before the expi-ration of fifteen (1.5) days from
the public places within the City of Costa Mesa.
PASSED and adopted this 2nd day of November, 1.953.
ATTEST:
Mayor of the City of Costa Mesa
City Clerk of the City oj' Costa Mesa
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA:
COUNTY OF ORANGE ; ss
CITY OF COSTA MESA ;
I, A. C. SWARTZ, City Clerk of the City of Costa Hesa, do hereby certify that at
a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa# held on the2-11 day
of Fov n mher , 1953, the foregoing Ordinance, containing „ sections. was considered
section by section. and that the said Ordinance was then passed and adopted as a whole by
the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: ' ri;�'PIPt� "^I r "'1, \ I , `TTI -i grad
NOES: COUNCILMENt C:;n
ABSENT: ! _ COUNCILM: C
I further certify that said Ordinance was thereupon signed by the Mayor of the
City of Costa Mesa.
ATTEST:
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City Clerk of the City oY'Costa Mesa
STATE OF CALIFORNIA:
COUNTY OF ORANGE : ss
CITY OF COSTA MESA :
I, A. C. SWARTZ. City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa, do hereby certify that on
the �!th day of 1953. I posted the foregoing true and correct copy of
the foregoing Ordinance in the following public places in the City:
Justice Court
567 test Eighteenth Street
Costa Mesa, California
Costa Mesa Branch Library
526 Center Street
Costa 1•iesa, California
Costa Iiesa Fire Hall
111 Rochester Street
Costa Iiesa. California
WITITESS my hand and seal this til day of ,;: , ' �'
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City Clerk of the City of 00sta mesa