Beverly Hills Municipal Code Art. 4 Gambling and Amusement Devices

It shall be unlawful for any person, either as owner, lessee, licensee, manager, employee, or agent to conduct, manage, carry on, maintain, operate, play, or use, or cause or allow to be conducted, managed, carried on, maintained, operated, played, or used, any amusement device; provided further, the prohibition of this section shall not apply to an amusement device in a private residence. (1962 Code § 4-7.102)

"Amusement device" shall mean any electrically or mechanically operated instrument, machine, or piece of equipment activated, operated, or played by coins or tokens or other devices, by which it is possible to obtain any article, result, or score from one operation or one play of such machine different from another, or through or by reason of which one person may receive a different result from the playing or operating thereof than another person; provided further, coin operated machines commonly known as vending machines and jukeboxes are hereby exempted from the definition herein. (1988 Code)

A. It shall be unlawful for any person, either as principal, agent, employee, or otherwise, to keep, conduct, or maintain within the city any premises or place used in whole or in part where any game not mentioned in sections 330 or 330a of the state Penal Code is played, conducted, dealt, or carried on with cards, dice, billiard balls, pool balls, cues, or other devices for money, checks, chips, credit, or any other representative of value or for any merchandise or any other thing of value.

B. It shall be unlawful for any person, either as principal, agent, employee, or otherwise, knowingly to permit any premises or place owned by, or under their charge or control, to be used in whole or in part for playing, conducting, dealing, or carrying on therein any game not mentioned in sections 330 or 330a of the state Penal Code with cards, dice, billiard balls, pool balls, cues, or other devices for money, checks, chips, credit, or any other representative of value or for any merchandise or any other thing of value.

C. It shall be unlawful for any person to play or bet at or against any game not mentioned in sections 330 or 330a of the state Penal Code which game is played, conducted, dealt, or carried on with cards, dice, billiard balls, pool balls, cues, or other devices for money, checks, chips, credit, or any other representative of value or for any merchandise or any other thing of value. (1962 Code § 4-5.18)

A. It shall be unlawful for any person to demonstrate, instruct, or teach to any other person a gambling system or the operation of a gambling device or gambling game, such as faro, monte, roulette, lansquenet, rouge et noir, rondo, tan, fan-tan, poker, seven-and-a-half, twenty one, blackjack, craps, or hokey pokey, or any banking or percentage game played with cards, dice or any other device.

B. The provisions of subsection A of this section shall not be applicable to the following:

1. Such activity in a private residence where performed without compensation.

2. Published or printed matter not used in connection with a display or exhibition or demonstration of such devices or game materials.

3. The keeping, exhibiting or display of such devices or game materials in any mercantile store where such devices or game materials are kept solely for sale, and members of the public are not permitted to operate, manipulate or play except as incidental to a demonstration for purposes of sale. (1962 Code § 4-5.17)