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Earlier editions: 2026-09

Title 5 — PUBLIC WELFARE, MORALS, AND CONDUCT

Pacifica Municipal Code Ch. 7 Gambling

Pacifica Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Pacifica

Cite as: Pacifica Municipal Code Chapter 7 · Text as of 2026-10-04

Sec. 5-7.01. - Unlawful games.

No person shall play any games of chance or skill not set forth in Section 330 of the Penal Code of the State with cards for money, checks, credit, or other representatives of value in any public barroom, or other public place, or place open to public view, or in any place where money or other valuable consideration is charged in any manner for the privilege of playing such games of chance or skill.

(§ 1, Ord. 153)

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Sec. 5-7.02. - Unlawful games: Duty of proprietors.

No person having possession, charge, or control of any public barroom or public place shall permit or allow any game of chance or skill played with cards not set forth in Section 330 of the Penal Code of the State to be played therein for money, checks, credit, or other representatives of value.

(§ 2, Ord. 153)

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Sec. 5-7.03. - Unlawful games: Charging persons to play.

No person having possession, charge, or control of any room, quarters, flat, apartment, or premises shall charge any person any sum of money or representative of value for the privilege of playing any game of chance or skill with cards not set forth in Section 330 of the Penal Code of the State.

(§ 3, Ord. 153)

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Sec. 5-7.04. - Gambling paraphernalia in barricaded rooms: Exhibiting.

It shall be unlawful for any person to exhibit or expose to view in any barred or barricaded house or room or in any place built or protected in a manner to make it difficult for access or ingress to police officers, when one or more persons are present, any cards, dominoes, fan-tan tables or layouts, roulette wheels, crap tables, racing scratch sheets, bookmaking markers, lottery or pool tickets or markers, or any other gambling implements or paraphernalia whatsoever.

(§ 4, Ord. 153)

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Sec. 5-7.05. - Gambling paraphernalia in barricaded rooms: Visiting.

It shall be unlawful for any person to visit or resort to any barred or barricaded house or room or any other place built or protected in a manner to make it difficult for access or ingress to police officers where any of the gambling paraphernalia or implements set forth in Section 5-7.04 of this chapter are exhibited or exposed to view when two (2) or more persons are present.

(§ 5, Ord. 153)

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