Lindsay Municipal Code § 9.32 Gambling

It is declared to be unlawful for any person within the city to deal, play, carry on or bet at or against any game played with cards, dice or other instrument, thing, device or machine, for money, either directly or indirectly, or for checks, chips or credit, or any other article exchangeable for or redeemable in money, which game is not prohibited by any law of the state.

(Prior code § 15-7)

It is declared to be unlawful for any person within the city to rent, open up, carry on, conduct or have charge or control of any room, apartment or place in the city, either as an owner, employee or otherwise, whether for hire or not, wherein any game played with cards, dice or any other instrument, thing, device or machine, which game is not prohibited by any law of the state, is played, dealt, conducted, carried on, permitted to be played or conducted, for money, either directly or indirectly or for checks, credit, chips or any other article exchangeable for or redeemable in money.

(Prior code § 15-8)

For the purposes of this section and Section 9.32.040 through 9.32.060, the slot machines, pinball machines, marble machines or similar devices, apparatus or contrivance mentioned and prohibited by Section 9.32.040 and which, for purposes of brevity may be called or referred to as "prohibited device," are defined as being any machine, apparatus, contrivance or device designed for operation, or which may be operated in such manner that upon the insertion or deposit of any coin, slug or token or otherwise releasing any mechanism, the person operating it may, as a result of any element of chance not predictable by him (A) receive or be entitled to receive, either directly or indirectly, any money, credit, allowance or any thing of value whatsoever; or (B) have revealed to him or any other person anything perceivable by either the sense of touch, sight or hearing, which is or may be exchangeable for anything of value to give him the right to operate or play the prohibited device another time, and all such prohibited devices shall be and constitute a public nuisance.

(Prior code § 15-9)

Every person who has in his possession, custody or control or who permits to be placed, maintained, operated or kept in any room, space, enclosure or building occupied by him or under his management or control, any slot machine, pinball machine, marble machine or similar device, apparatus or contrivance, as defined in Section 9.32.030, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Prior code § 15-10)

Section 9.32.040 shall not apply to or prohibit vending machines, being such commercial devices as are designed to operate and which do operate in such manner that, upon the insertion or depositing of any coin or by the operation of other releasing mechanism, the person operating the machine or device, without the intervention of any element of chance, receives the exact consideration uniformly dispensed by the machine in exchange for the money or coin inserted or deposited and predictable by him.

(Prior code § 15-11)

Any device prohibited by Section 9.32.040 may be seized by any officer designated in Section 335 of the Penal Code of the state, and destroyed in the manner provided in Section 335(a) of the Penal Code of the state, as a device penalized by the laws of the state prohibiting lotteries or gambling.

(Prior code § 15-12)