Arcadia Municipal Code Div. 3 Gambling Devices

Any slot or card machine, contrivance, appliance or mechanical device used, operated, kept, possessed, placed or maintained in violation of the provisions of:

(1) Section 330a of the State Penal Code;

(2) Any section enumerated in Part I of Title 9 of Chapter 9 (Lotteries) of the State Penal Code; or

(3) Section 4213.1 of this Code

is hereby declared to be a nuisance and shall be subject to abatement as hereinafter provided in Section 4213.2.

No person shall keep, maintain, or have in his/her possession or under his/her control, either as owner, lessee, manager, employee, agent or servant, any punchboard, table, game or device, commonly known as a "marble game," "pin game," or slot machine or game, or any device similar thereto, the operation, use or play of which is controlled by placing therein any coin, plate, disc, plug, key or other device or by the payment of any fee.

Any article declared by Section 4213 to be a nuisance, as a result of the operation, use, keeping, possession, placing or maintaining of which any person has, in any court, been convicted of or has pleaded guilty to any violation of Section 330a of the State Penal Code or any section enumerated in Part I, Title 9, Chapter 9 (Lotteries) in the State Penal Code, shall be destroyed by the Chief of Police after such plea or after such judgment of conviction becomes final. The contents of such machine shall be destroyed, or if money, shall be deposited in the general fund. If said articles subject to destruction as provided in this division are in the custody of the court, the Chief of Police shall cause to be made an application to the judge of said court for an order releasing said articles to him for the purpose of complying with this Division.

No person, either as principal, agent, owner, lessee, manager, employee, servant or otherwise, shall conduct, manage, carry on, maintain, operate, open, deal in, cause or permit to be conducted any game, operation or transaction wherein chance is a determining factor or is any determining factor in the result of such game, operation or transaction, and wherein any prize, gift, rebate, compensation, reward, award, payment or gratuity, consisting of any money, check, token, credit, goods, wares, merchandise, property or thing of value, is or is to be given, awarded or delivered directly or indirectly, by throwing, tossing, dropping, depositing or placing any ball, marker, object, thing or substance into any perforation, hole, or indentation, in or upon any surface, receptacle, container, object or thing having marked, designated or identified thereon by or with any figure, number, character, symbol, letter, design or mark of any kind, or by the selecting, designating, turning, indicating, choosing or projecting of any such figure, number, character, symbol, letter, design or mark by means of any device, apparatus, or equipment and where, by any predetermined or prearranged rule, method, scheme, design or procedure any person is found, declared or determined to be or is the winner, donee, recipient or taker of such prize, gift, rebate, compensation, reward, award, payment or gratuity, from which the player or participant pays, deposits, expends, gives or pledges, either directly or indirectly, any money, check credit, property or thing of value, or makes or agrees to make any purchase for the privilege of playing or participating therein or of gaining admission to the place or premises where such game, operation, or transaction is or is to be played, conducted, carried on, maintained or operated.

No person, either as principal, agent, owner, lessee, manager, employee, servant or otherwise shall conduct, manage, carry on, maintain, operate, deal in, or cause or permit to be conducted any game not mentioned in Section 319, 320, 330 or 330a of the State Penal Code or any other code section or general law of the State, the result of which chance is a determining factor, it being the intent by this section to prohibit any person who has or promises to pay, deposit, expend, give or pledge any money, check credit, property or thing of value to participate in any such game, operation or transaction, and upon which result prizes, gifts, rebates, compensation, rewards, awards, payments, gratuity is redeemable or exchangeable for money or any other thing of value, whether the game is called Tango, Keno, Beano, Skill Ball, Skill Wheel, Fortune, Quintain, Fascination, Inspiration, or by whatever name the game is called or designated.

No person shall buy, purchase, discount or redeem any prize, merchandise, representative, article, check, certificate, paper or token, awarded or given at any place whereat any game prohibited by this Part or by Section 319, 320, 330 or 330a or by any other section of the State Penal Code.

No person shall place or bet at or against any of the games, gambling or gaming activities not mentioned in Section 330 of the State Penal Code or by any games, gambling or gaming activities made unlawful in Section 4213 of this Code.

No person shall play at, or bet at or against any game mentioned in this Part or any game mentioned in Section 319, 320, 330, or 330a of the State Penal Code.

(Former Divisions 1 through 3 repealed and new Divisions 1 through 3 added by Ord. 2195 adopted 9-7-04)