Isleton Municipal Code Ch. 6.12 Gaming

Every person who deals, plays, or carries on, opens, or causes to be opened, or who conducts, either as owner or employee, whether for hire or not, any game of faro, monte, roulette, lansquenet, rouge-et-noir, rondo, tan, fan-tan, stud-horse poker, seven and a half, 21, hokey-pokey, or any banking or percentage game played with cards, dice, or any device, for money, checks, credit, or other representative of value, and every person who plays or bets at or against any of said prohibited games, and every person, who has in his possession or under his control, either as owner, lessee, agent, employee, mortgagee, or otherwise, or who permits to be placed, maintained or kept in any room, space, enclosure, or building owned, leased, or occupied by him, or under his management or control, any slot or card machine, contrivance, appliance or mechanical device, upon the result of action of which money or other valuable thing is staked or hazarded, and which is operated, or played, by placing or depositing therein any coins, checks, slugs, balls, or other articles or devices, or in any other manner and by means whereof, or as a result of the operation of which any merchandise, money, representative or articles of value, checks, or tokens, redeemable in, or exchangeable for money or any other thing of value, is won or lost, or taken from or obtained from such machine, when the result of action or operation of such machine, contrivance, appliance, or mechanical device is dependent upon hazard or chance, and every person who has in his possession or under his control, either as owner, leasee, agent, employee, mortgagee, or otherwise, or who permits to be placed, maintained or kept, in any room, space, inclosure or building, owned, leased or occupied by him, or under his management or control, any card dice, or any dice having more than six faces or bases each, upon the result of action of which any money or other valuable thing is staked or hazarded, or as a result of the operation of which any merchandize, money, representative or article of value, check or token, redeemable in or exchangeable for money or nay other thing of value, is won or lost or taken, when the result of action or operation of such dice is dependent upon hazard or chance, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punishable by a fine of not less than $100.00 nor more than $500.00, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

It shall be unlawful for any person who owns, rents, or is in the possession or control of any house, room or place within the limits of the city, to bar or barricade or build or construct such house, room or place so as to make the same difficult of access or ingress to police officers, or to knowingly permit any other person to bar or barricade or build, construct or protect such house, room or place so as to make the same difficult of access or ingress to police officers, for the purpose of therein conducting, playing or maintaining any game of chances to be played for money or other thing or representative of value.

Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $10.00 or more than $100.00, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten days, nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.