Lafayette Municipal Code Ch. 8-4 Gambling

(a) Gambling House Prohibited. No person shall keep, conduct or maintain a house, room, apartment or place used as a gambling house or place where any game is played, conducted or carried on with cards, dice, dominos or other device, for money, chips, credit or any representative of value, in the result of which game chance is any determining factor, except as set forth in Section 8-402. The word "cards" as used in this chapter is not intended to include games known as bridge or whist.

(b) Permitting Use as a Gambling House. No person shall knowingly permit a house, room, apartment or place owned by him or under his control to be used as a gambling house or place of playing, conducting, dealing or carrying on any game, played with cards, dice, dominos or other device, for money, chips, credit or any representative of value, in the result of which game chance is any determining factor, except as set forth in Section 8-402.

(c) Betting. No person shall deal, operate, attend, play or bet at or against any game in the result of which chance is a determining factor, which game is played, conducted, dealt or carried on with cards, dice, dominos or other device, for money, chips, credit or any representative of value, in any house, room, apartment or place, except as set forth in Section 8-402.

(Ord. 202 § 1 (part), 1978)

Section 8-401 does not apply to (a) occasional private games, otherwise lawful, carried on for purely social purposes in a private home, or (b) otherwise lawful games, other than card games, conducted by a private group of customers, for the sole purpose of determining which member of the group shall pay for food, refreshments or beverages for immediate consumption by the group.

(Ord. 202 § 1 (part), 1978)