Downey Municipal Code Ch. 4 Gambling Games of Chance

For the purposes of this chapter, certain words and terms shall be construed as set forth in this chapter, unless it is apparent from the context that a different meaning is intended.

(Added by Ord. 17, adopted 3-11-57)

No person shall keep, conduct, or maintain within the City any house, room, apartment, office, or place used in whole or in part as a gambling house or place where any game not mentioned in Section 330 or 330a of the Penal Code of the State is played, conducted, dealt, or carried on with cards, dice, balls, billiard balls, pool balls, cues, or other devices for money, checks, chips, credit, or any other representative of value, or for merchandise, or for anything of value.

(Added by Ord. 17, adopted 3-11-57)

No person shall permit any house, room, apartment, office, or place owned by him or under this charge or control in the City to be used in whole or in part for playing, operating, conducting, dealing, or carrying on therein any game or device not mentioned in Sections 330 or 330a of the Penal Code of the State with cards, dice, balls, billiard balls, pool balls, cues, or other devices for money, chips, credit, or any other representative of value, or for any merchandise, or for anything of value.

(Added by Ord. 17, adopted 3-11-57)

No person shall play or bet at or against any game not mentioned in Sections 330 or 330a of the Penal Code of the State, which game is played, conducted, dealt, or carried on with cards, dice, balls, billiard balls, pool balls, cues, or other devices for money, checks, chips, credit, or any other representative of value, or for any merchandise, or for anything of value.

(Added by Ord. 17, adopted 3-11-57)

(Added by Ord. 17, adopted 3-11-57; repealed by Ord. 512, adopted 8-10-76)

(Added by Ord. 17, adopted 3-11-57; repealed by Ord. 512, adopted 8-10-76)