4216.5. - ESTABLISHED.

The following rules and regulations are hereby established and promulgated by the Council with reference to bingo games for which licenses are issued under the provisions of this Division:

4216.5.1. -  

No intoxicating liquors or beverages shall be sold, given away, dispensed, consumed, or permitted in the room in which bingo is played.

4216.5.2. -  

No licensee, or other person in charge or control of any bingo game operating under any license held or issued pursuant to the provisions of this Division shall charge any person playing in any of the games licensed by this Division more than five dollars ($5.00) for any one bingo game.

4216.5.3. -  

No licensee, or other person in charge or control of any game operating under any license held or issued pursuant to the provisions of this Division shall damage, conduct, or carry on any activity licensed by this Division during any time that such license issued by the City has expired or has been or is suspended or revoked.

4216.5.4. -  

Bingo game conducted or operated in the City pursuant to the provisions of this Division shall be conducted and operated in full conformity with, and subject to, all the provisions of the laws of the State and of the City.

4216.5.5. -  

No licensee holding a license pursuant to the provisions of this Division, and no agent or representative of such licensee, and no other person in charge or control of any such licensed premises, game or activity shall:

4216.5.5.1. -  

Permit or allow any person under the age of eighteen (18) years to play the game of bingo;

4216.5.5.2. -  

Permit or allow any person eighteen (18) years of age or over to play the game of bingo, at any time in or upon the premises covered by or referred to in any such license between the hours of 12:01 A.M. and 9:00 A.M. of any day of the week; or

4216.5.5.3. -

Permit or allow any person under the age of eighteen (18) years at any time to be in the bingo room covered by or referred to in such license unless accompanied by parent or guardian.

4216.5.6. -  

No bingo game shall be conducted or allowed to be conducted by licensee except on the days and during the hours specified in its license.

4216.5.7. -  

The total value of prizes awarded during the conduct of any bingo games shall not exceed Two Hundred Fifty and no/100ths Dollars ($250.00) in cash or kind, or both, for each separate game which is held.

4216.5.8. -  

No individual, corporation, partnership, or other legal entity except the licensee shall hold a financial interest in the conduct of such bingo game.

4216.5.9. -  

A bingo game shall be operated and staffed only by members of the licensee non-profit charitable organization. Such members shall not receive a profit, wage, or salary from any bingo game or from the licensee. Only the licensee shall operate such game, or participate in the promotion, supervision or any other phase of such game.

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All bingo games shall be open to the public, not just to the members of the licensee non-profit charitable organization.

4216.5.11. -

Notwithstanding that bingo games are open to the public, attendance at any bingo game shall be limited to the occupancy capacity of the room in which such game is conducted as determined by the Fire Department and Building Department of the City in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

4216.5.12. -  

A licensee shall conduct a bingo game only on property owned or leased by it, and which property is used by such non-profit charitable organization for an office or for performance of the purposes for which the non-profit charitable organization is organized. The license issued under this Division shall authorize the holder thereof to conduct bingo games only on such property, the address of which is stated in the license. In the event the described property ceases to be used as an office and as a place for performance of the purposes for which the licensee is organized, the license shall have no further force or effect. A new license may be obtained by a non-profit charitable organization, upon application under this Division, when it again owns or leases property used by it for an office or for performance of the purposes for which the organization is organized. Aforedescribed property need not be used or leased exclusively by said organization.

(Amended by Ord. No. 1608 Adopted 9-20-77)

4216.5.13. -  

No person shall be allowed to participate in a bingo game, unless the person is physically present at the time and place in which the bingo game is being conducted.

4216.5.14. -  

All lights, representations, and displays of every kind and nature whatsoever in, on, or about the location, and premises of any licensed non-profit charitable organization within the City shall at all times be and remain subject to the approval of the Planning Director of the City of Arcadia and any application for a permit for any such lights, representations, and displays shall be submitted to the Council before the permit is issued. The failure or refusal of any licensee to immediately, upon notice from the Planning Director of the City, remove any sign, light, representation, display, or feature which the Planning Director deems objectionable or undesirable for any reason shall be and constitute adequate and sufficient grounds for the suspension or revocation of the license issued to or held by such organization pursuant to the provisions of this Division.

4216.5.15. -

The Council ordains that it shall be unlawful for any person, as an operator, agent, and/or employee of any duly licensed nonprofit charitable organization to assign, arrange for, or in any other manner sublet, directly or indirectly, with or without consideration, to any non-profit charitable organization not having a valid, unsuspended or unrevoked license to conduct such bingo game. It shall likewise be unlawful for any person, not having a valid, unrevoked or unsuspended license to conduct the game of bingo on the premises of a duly licensed non-profit charitable organization. It shall also be grounds for the revocation or suspension of any license issued to any non-profit charitable organization to permit the farming out, assigning, or subletting of any bingo game lawfully permitted pursuant to the provisions of this Division.

4216.5.16. -  

The playing of bingo games provided for in this Division shall be confined to the room described in the license, of each licensed non-profit charitable organization, and no playing of any bingo games provided for or permitted by this Division shall be permitted at any other location on such non-profit charitable organization's premises, except in that area designated as the "bingo room".

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All bingo premises shall be open for inspection during all normal business hours to the Chief of Police, or his duly authorized representatives, without a search warrant.

It shall be unlawful for any licensee, or other person to violate any of the rules or regulations set forth in Section 4216.5.

The Council reserves the right to add to, amend, or repeal by ordinance any of the rules and regulations set forth in Section 4216.5 and to so adopt additional rules and regulations.

The Council further reserves the right to adopt by resolution additional emergency rules and regulations which shall become effective immediately upon adoption, and the violation of any such emergency rules and regulations shall constitute grounds for the suspension and revocation of the licenses issued pursuant to the provisions of this Division.

(Division 6 Added by Ord. 1584 Adopted 3-1-77)