National City Municipal Code Ch. 10.26 Gambling

It is unlawful for any person or persons within the limits of the city to deal, play, carry on, open or cause to be opened or carried on, or to conduct either as owner or employee, whether for hire or not, any game of poker, stud horse poker, tan, fan-tan, faro, monte, roulette, lansquenet, rouge et noire, rondo, chuck-aluck props, percentage game, or any other game played with cards, dice or any other device, when the same is played for money, checks, notes or any other representation of value, or to permit any house or other building to be used for playing or carrying on any such games.

(Ord. 7 § 19, 1887)

It is declared to be unlawful for any person within the corporate limits of the city to knowingly be present at the opening, dealing or playing of any game of faro, monte, roulette, lansquenet, rouge et noire, rondo, chuck-aluck props, banking or percentage, poker, stud horse poker, tan or fan-tan, or any other game played with cards, dice or other device, for checks, notes, or other representatives of money, or where there are kept on exhibition any cards, dice or other device to be used in dealing, playing, conducting or carrying on any such game, or after having entered such house, room, or place to knowingly remain therein while any such game is being dealt, played, or carried on; provided that this section shall not apply to any officer who shall visit, resort to, enter or be present in any such house or place in the discharge of his duty.

(Ord. 7 § 20, 1887)

It is unlawful for any person to have in his possession, or under his control any table, mat, cloth, wheel, ball or cup, or any other device or thing to be used in playing or carrying on roulette, rouge et noire, rondo, tan or fan-tan.

(Ord. 7 § 21, 1887)

It is unlawful for any person to watch, guard, or stand in front of or about the entrance to any room, premises where any of the games mentioned in this chapter are carried on, with intent to give notice or alarm to the person or persons in such house or room or premises, or to act as doorkeeper, or as an employee in any capacity in, upon or about any premises used for any such games.

(Ord. 7 § 22, 1887)

A "banking game," within the meaning of this chapter, is any game of chance played with cards, dice, or any other device which is dealt, played, conducted or carried on by a person who has or claims to have a fund to be staked against all bets which may be offered on such game.

(Ord. 7 § 23, 1887)

A "percentage game," within the meaning of this chapter, is any game of chance played with cards, dice, or any other device in which the person who deals, plays, conducts or carries on the same, or who owns, possesses or controls the devices with which the same is played, receives from the persons betting on such game, or any of such persons, or receives out of the money, checks or other representatives of value bet on said game any sum of money for the use of the gaming devices, or for the privilege of betting on such game or for the services of such person in dealing, conducting, or carrying on such game.

(Ord. 7 § 24, 1887)

A. It is unlawful for any person to establish, open, keep, carry on, maintain, or assist in carry on or maintaining any cardroom, premises or place in the city where any card table or other apparatus or place intended, designed, used or designated to be used for the playing of card games is kept for hire. Any person violating this section is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every act in violation of this section is, for each day of its continuance, a separate misdemeanor.

B. As used in Section 10.26.070(A), the term "for hire" means the payment or transfer of money or thing of any value to the owner, lessee or an employee or any other person in actual or apparent control of a premises for the purpose of the payor, transferor or a third party on behalf of the payor or transferor being allowed to play cards.

(Ord. 2204 § 2, 2002)