Alameda Municipal Code § 4-50 Lotteries

With the exception of the California State lottery and related games sponsored by the State of California, it shall be unlawful for any person in the City of Alameda to aid or assist, either by printing, writing, advertising, publishing, circulating, carrying, or otherwise, in setting up, managing or drawings up any lottery, or selling or disposing of any ticket, chance or share therein, or to have in his/her possession any lottery ticket, certificate paper or instrument purporting to represent or representing, or understood to be or to represent, any ticket, chance, share or interest in, or depending upon the event of, any lottery, or any instrument, stamp or device used, or intended to be used, in, or for contriving, setting up, preparing, making, writing, printing, stamping, or getting ready for sale or distribution, any lottery ticket or tickets, or to become an inmate of, or visitor to, or in any manner contribute to the support of, any office, room, or place where any lottery is, or is about to be, contrived, prepared, set up, drawn or sold, or any ticket of such lottery is registered, or to knowingly let, or permit to be used, any building, or premises, or portion thereof, knowing that it is to be used or is being used for any one of the purposes in this subsection declared to be unlawful.

(Ord. No. 535 N.S. § 18-441; Ord. No. 2455 N.S. § 1)

Every person found in any room, office or apartment, or place, where any of such articles enumerated in the preceding section are found, shall, unless the contrary appears, be deemed to have possession of such articles.

(Ord. No. 535 N.S. § 18-442)