Long Beach Municipal Code Ch. 9.24 Gambling

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State Law reference— Provisions on gambling, Pen. C. § 330 et seq.

No person shall play or bet at, or as owner or employee open, deal, play, carry on or conduct any game of chance played with cards, dice, balls, pins, checkers, counters, quoits, beans, spindles, tables, wheels, machines, or any other device, contrivance or apparatus, or with any combination of any thereof, for money, checks, or other representative of value; provided, however, that the game known as bingo may be played in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 5.20.

(Ord. C-5266 § 1, 1976: prior code § 4140.7)

Any machine, contrivance, appliance, device, game, ticket, chance, share, interest, instrument or article operated, used, kept, possessed, placed or maintained in violation of the provisions of:

A. Section 330a of the State Penal Code;

B. Any section enumerated in Part I, Title 9, Chapter 9 of the State Penal Code; or

C. Section 9.24.030 of this Code is declared to be a nuisance and shall be subject to abatement as provided in Section 9.24.040.

(Prior code § 4140.8)

No person shall keep, maintain, possess or have under their control in any place of business, or in any other place of public resort, either as an owner, lessee, agent, employee, mortgagee, or otherwise, any game of chance, table game, automatic payoff machine, or any device commonly known as a slot machine, as such slot machines or similar devices are defined in California Penal Code Section 330b(d). For the purposes of this Section, pinball and other amusement machines or devices, which are predominantly games of skill, whether affording the opportunity of additional chances or free plays or not, are not included within the term slot machine or device, as defined in this Section.

(ORD-19-0034 § 4, 2019; Prior code § 4140.9)

A. Any article declared by Section 9.24.020 to be a nuisance, as a result of the operation, use, keeping, possession, placing or maintaining of which any person has been convicted of or has pleaded guilty to any violation of any law of this State or of any ordinance of this City, shall be destroyed by the Chief of Police after such plea, or after judgment of conviction becomes final. The contents of such machine shall be destroyed, or if money, shall be deposited in the General Purpose Fund of the City.

B. If any articles subject to destruction as provided in this Section are in the custody of any court within the City, the Chief of Police shall cause to be made an application to the judge of the court for an order releasing the articles to him for the purpose of complying with this Section.

(Prior code § 4140.10)

Editor's note— ORD-19-0034 § 5, adopted Dec. 3, 2019, repealed § 9.24.050 entitled "Exception—Amusement zone," which derived from Prior code § 4140.11.

No person shall use, display, present, carry or possess any identification card, paper or tag which contains any false statements or data, or which bears the name of a person other than of such person, for the purpose of being admitted to any place of entertainment or obtaining any goods.

(Prior code § 4140.14)

No person, either for himself or as the agent or employee of another, shall make, prepare, sell or furnish any identification card, paper or tag, without first obtaining proof of the correctness of the statements or data thereon contained. Proof that such identification card, paper or tag contains false statements or data shall be prima facie evidence of the violation of this Section.

(Prior code § 4140.15)

Every person making or preparing any identification card, paper or tag shall print thereon the name and address of such person making or preparing such identification card, paper or tag, shall type or print across the face of such identification card, paper, or tag, the word "unofficial" in red letters as large as the largest letters on the face of such card, paper or tag.

(Prior code § 4140.16)