El Monte Municipal Code Ch. 9.20 Gambling

No person shall exhibit or expose to view in any barred or barricaded house or room or in any place built, maintained, or protected in a manner to make it difficult of access or ingress to police officers, when three (3) or more persons are present, any cards, dice, roulette table, roulette wheel, or layout, or any part of such layout, or any gambling implements whatsoever.

(Prior code § 4200)

No person shall visit or resort to any such barred or barricaded house or room or other place built, maintained, or protected in a manner making it difficult of access or ingress to police officers where any cards, dice, roulette table, roulette wheel, or layout or any part of such layout, or any gambling implements whatsoever are exhibited or exposed to view when three (3) or more persons are present.

(Prior code § 4201)

No person shall deal, play, carry on, open, cause to be opened, or conduct any game, or bet at any game, played with cards, dice, or any other device, for money, checks, credits, chips, tokens, or anything of value or for anything representative of anything of value.

(Prior code § 4202)

No person shall place, maintain or operate any card game for money, checks, credits, chips, tokens, or anything of value or for anything representative of anything of value, where such playing, maintenance or operation is in a room, hall, place of business, or any public place, and a charge is made as a rental for the use of tables, chairs, cards or any other equipment, and such place is opened, maintained or operated for profit. No person shall knowingly permit any game prohibited by this chapter to be played, conducted or dealt in any house, building, or other premises owned by, rented by, or in the lawful possession of such person. No person shall resort to, attend, visit, or be present at any house, room, building, or other place where any gambling is being conducted, played, or carried on, or where any game is being played, conducted, or dealt contrary to any provision of this chapter.

(Prior code § 4203)

No person shall maintain, display or exhibit any sign visible to any person upon any sidewalk or street that any specific game can be played therein, where such game is played with cards for money, checks, credits, chips, tokens, or anything of value or for anything representative of anything of value.

(Prior code § 4204)

Nothing contained in this chapter is intended to or shall be construed to permit the playing, maintaining, or operating of any game prohibited by law, nor to prohibit the playing, maintaining or operating of any game already prohibited by law.

(Prior code § 4205)

Nothing contained in this chapter is intended to or shall be construed to prohibit the playing, maintaining or operating of any bingo game as defined by Section 326.5(n) of the California Penal Code, if played, maintained or operated in accordance with all provisions of Section 326.5 of the California Penal Code and of Section 5.24.010 of this code of the El Monte Municipal Code, so long as a permit therefor issued pursuant to Chapter 5.12 of the of the El Monte Municipal Code is in effect.

(Prior code § 4206)