Laguna Woods Municipal Code Ch. 7.12 Gambling

(a) Every person who for profit, or for anything of value or for commercial purposes of any nature, keeps, operates, conducts or maintains, either directly or indirectly, in any house, room, apartment, dwelling place or other place where any game, gambling or gaming not mentioned or included in Penal Code § 330 or 330a is played, conducted, dealt or carried on whether with cards, dice or any other device of whatsoever nature for money, checks, credit, merchandise or other representative of value shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(b) Every person either as owner, lessor, lessee, principal, agent, employee or participant or otherwise who maintains or keeps or operates or conducts directly or indirectly in whole or in part, or who directly or indirectly is in possession in whole or in part of any house, room, apartment, dwelling place or other place upon or in which any gambling, games or gaming prohibited in this section are played, conducted, dealt or carried on, and who imposes or collects a fee or anything of value for the privilege of participating in any way whatsoever in any such games, gambling or gaming, or who directly or indirectly gains or receives anything of value or any financial profit from playing, conducting or dealing of any such games, gambling or gaming shall, for the purposes of this chapter, be deemed to be keeping, conducting, operating and maintaining the same for profit or commercial purposes.

(OCC § 3-5-1)

(a) Every person who knowingly permits any of the games, gambling or gaming which by Section 7.12.010 are made unlawful to be played, maintained, operated, conducted or dealt in any house, room, apartment, dwelling place or other place owned or rented by such person in whole or in part is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(b) Every person who visits, frequents, participates in or knowingly permits any games, gambling or gaming which by Section 7.12.010 is or are made unlawful to be played, operated, maintained, conducted or dealt in any house, room, apartment, dwelling place or other place, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(c) Every person who shall place or bet at or against any of the games, gambling or gaming which by Section 7.12.010 are made unlawful shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

(OCC § 3-5-2—3-5-4)

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association, either as owner, lessee, manager, employee, agent or servant, to conduct, manage, carry on, maintain, operate, open, deal or deal in, or to cause or permit to be conducted, managed, carried on, maintained, operated, opened, dealt or dealt in, any game, operation or transaction wherein any prize, gift, rebate, compensation, reward, award, payment or gratuity, consisting of any money, check, token, credit, goods, wares, merchandise, property or thing of value, is or is to be given, awarded or delivered, either directly or indirectly, and wherein chance is a determining factor or is any determining factor of the result of such game, operation or transaction, which game, operation or transaction is conducted, carried on, maintained, operated or played by the throwing, tossing, dropping, depositing or placing of any ball, marker, object, thing or substance into any perforation, hole or indentation, in or upon any surface, receptacle, container, object or thing having been marked, designated or identified thereon by or with any figure, number, character, symbol, letter, design or mark of any kind, or by the selecting, designating, turning, indicating, choosing or projecting of any such figure, number, character, symbol, letter, design or mark by means of any device, apparatus or equipment, or by any means or in any manner or by the drawing, selecting, choosing or removing from any receptacle or container of any ball, disk, object, substance or material marked, designated or identified by or with any figure, number, character, symbol, letter, design or mark, any such figure, number, character, symbol, letter, design or mark hereinabove referred to corresponding to, duplicating, referring to or relating to, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, any figure, number, character, symbol, letter, design or mark upon any card, paper, board, fabric, surface, object, substance or thing held, used, operated or maintained by any player or participant therein or by any person, where, by any predetermination or prearrangement, or by any rule, method, scheme, design or procedure, any person is found, declared or determined to be, or is or is to be, the winner, donee, recipient or taker of such prize, gift, rebate, compensation, reward, award, payment or gratuity, in the event that any such player or participant pays, deposits, expends, gives or pledges, either directly or indirectly, or agrees, promises or intends to pay, deposit, expend, give or pledge, either directly or indirectly, any money, check, credit, property or thing of value, or makes or agrees to make any purchase for the privilege of playing or participating therein or of gaining admission to the place or premises where such game, operation or transaction is or is to be played, conducted, carried on, maintained or operated, or to any other place or premises; provided, however, that no provision of this chapter shall be deemed or construed as prohibiting any act made unlawful by the provisions of Penal Code § 320, or of Penal Code § 330, or of Penal Code § 330a, or of any other Code section or general law of the State of California, it being the intent of the City Council to prohibit by this chapter all games, operations or transactions herein described, not prohibited by the provisions of any general law of this State, including all games, operations or transactions for profit, commonly known as keno, tango, movie tango, beano, skill ball, fortune, quintan, fascination or inspiration, and all games, operations or transactions similar thereto under whatever name they may be designated.

(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to participate in, play, play in or engage in, either directly or indirectly, any game, operation or transaction prohibited by the provisions of Subsection 7.12.030(a).

(c) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association, owning, leasing, managing, controlling or having any interest in any property or premises lying within the City to cause or permit the maintenance or operation in or on such property or premises, having knowledge, or after reasonable notice, of the existence thereof, of any game, operation or transaction declared by the provisions of Subsection 7.12.030(a) to be unlawful.

(d) Bingo games are permitted as set forth in, and subject to the requirements and conditions of, Section 7.12.040.

(OCC §§ 3-5-15—3-5-18)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 10-02, § 1, adopted Aug. 18, 2010, repealed § 7.12.040, which pertained to bingo games and derived from OCC § 3-10-30.