Huntington Park Municipal Code Art. 1 Gambling

For the purposes of this article, "gambling" shall mean any game played with cards, dice, or any other device for money, credit, or anything of value, or any representative of value; provided, however, the playing of draw poker, panguingue, low ball draw poker, hold'em, mah jong, pai gow, and tein gow, and any other game not prohibited by State law if the playing of any such other game is first specifically approved by a resolution adopted by the Council, in poker clubs or card rooms licensed by the Council or operating under a lease granted by the Huntington Park Redevelopment Agency and approved by the Council shall be excepted from the provisions of this article provided such games are not played as banking or percentage games.

(§ 2, Ord. 296, as amended by § 4, Ord. 323-NS, eff. October 7, 1982, and § 1, Ord. 367-NS, eff. September 5, 1984)

Every person who deals, plays, carries on, opens, causes to be opened, or conducts any game of chance played with cards, dice, or any other device for money, checks, credits, or other things of value in any place used by or open to the public by invitation or otherwise, or frequented by the general public in the City, and every person who bets at any such prohibited game shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(§ 1, Ord. 296, and § I, Ord. 901)

It shall be unlawful for any person to visit any gambling house, place, or room in the City where gambling is being conducted, carried on, or engaged in.

(§ 2, Ord. 296)

It shall be unlawful for any person, either as owner, lessee, agent, employee, mortgagee, or otherwise, to let or permit to be used any building, or any portion thereof, in the City, knowing that such building is to be used, in whole or in part, for the purpose of conducting or carrying on gambling.

(§ 3, Ord. 296)