Fresno County Municipal Code Ch. 10.20 Gambling

It is unlawful for any person to exhibit or expose to view, or to have in possession, in any barred or barricaded house or room or in any place built or protected in any manner to make it difficult for access or ingress to peace officers, when three or more persons are present, any cards, dice, dominoes, fan-tan table or lay-out, or any part of such lay-out, or other gambling implements, devices, articles or things whatsoever, or any part thereof.

(Prior code, § 550)

It is unlawful for any person to visit or resort to or be in a barred or barricaded house or rooms or any place which is knowingly built or protected in such a manner as to make it difficult of access or ingress to peace officers, where any cards, dice, dominoes, fan-tan table or lay-out, or any part of such lay-out, or other gambling implements, devices, articles or things whatsoever, or any part thereof, are exhibited or exposed and which fact is known to said persons.

(Prior code, § 551)

It is unlawful for any person to deal, play or carry on, or open, or cause to be opened, or to conduct, either as owner or employee, or otherwise, whether for hire or not, any game not mentioned or included in Section 330 of the Penal Code of California played with cards, dice or any other device of whatsoever nature for money, checks or credits.

(Prior code, § 552)

It is unlawful for any person to establish, open, keep, maintain or carry on, or assist in carrying on any house, room or other place where gambling is carried on.

(Prior code, § 553)

It is unlawful for any person to become an inmate, or a visitor at any gambling house or place where gambling is practiced or carried on with the knowledge that said act occurs therein.

(Prior code, § 553.1)

It is unlawful for any person to conduct, carry on, deal, play or bet, at or against games with cards, dice or any other device whatsoever.

(Prior code, § 553.2)

It shall be the duty of the sheriff-coroner and all deputies and constables to use all legal means in detecting and convicting persons of violating any provision of this chapter, and to exercise the right of search given by law of this state, and to seize and safely keep all chips, cards, apparatus and other things used for gambling purposes.

(Prior code, § 554)

It is unlawful for any person, whether as owner, lessee, agent, employee, mortgagee or otherwise to keep, maintain, possess or have under his control, except in the course of transportation, any pinball machine of a kind commonly known as a "multiple coin" machine, or any pinball machine by whatever name known which is or may be played by inserting therein more than one coin, token, slug or other article per player per game, or on which the odds may be made to advance, fluctuate or vary in any manner.

(Prior code, § 555)

In addition to any other penalty provided by this code, any machine, the keeping, maintaining, possession, or control of which is made unlawful by Section l0.20.080, shall be seized by any law enforcement officer of the county who shall thereupon serve upon the person or persons who kept, maintained, possessed or controlled such machine, a notice of intention to summarily destroy the same in accordance with the provisions of this section. If such person is unknown or cannot be found, such notice shall be posted in a conspicuous place upon the premises where such machine was found and seized. Such officers shall destroy such machine immediately upon any final judgment of conviction in a criminal case, for its keeping, maintenance, possession or control under this chapter, otherwise he shall hold such in his possession until the expiration of thirty days after giving of the notice of intention to destroy aforesaid. If no action has been commenced to recover possession of the machine within such time, the same shall forthwith be summarily destroyed. If such action has been filed within the thirty-day period, the machine shall be retained until any judgment rendered in such action becomes final. If by that final judgment it is determined that the machine was kept, maintained, possessed or controlled in violation of this chapter and that the plaintiff in the action is not entitled to the possession thereof, it shall likewise be summarily destroyed. Any money seized in such machine shall forthwith be delivered by the officer seizing the same to the treasurer-tax collector of the county, and upon the machine being destroyed, as in this section provided, the officer so destroying the same shall notify the treasurer-tax collector thereof who shall thereupon credit the money to the general fund of the county. Upon any final judgment of any court that such machine so seized was not kept, maintained, possessed or controlled in violation of this chapter, said machine and the money seized therein shall be returned to the person found by such judgment to be entitled thereto.

(Prior code, § 556)