Arcadia Municipal Code Div. 1 Definitions

Any house, building, shed, structure, place, lot or parcel of land whereat any game is played with cards, dice, chips or similar device for money, checks, chips, credit, prizes, merchandise, certificate, paper, token or any other article representative of value when redeemable in or exchangeable for money or anything of value, where money or anything of value or any representative value is risked, staked or hazarded on the result of the game, is hereby declared to be a nuisance and to be included in the term "gambling house or place."

Any house, building, shed, structure, place, lot or parcel of land whereat any book, paper, apparatus, device, paraphernalia or similar device is kept for any period of time whatsoever for the purpose of recording or registering any bet or wager upon the result or purported result of any trial, purported trial, contest or purported contest of skill, speed or power of endurance between men or beasts, horses or any mechanical apparatus, is hereby declared to be a nuisance and to be included in the term "gambling house or place." The enclosure of a horse track when licensed by the California Horse Racing Board shall not be deemed a gambling house or place, so long as the book, paper and/or apparatus are kept by the licensee to record wagers made through the pari-mutuel machines at licensee's track.