Parlier Municipal Code Ch. 9.16 Gambling

Any person who deals, plays, or carries on, opens, or causes to be opened, or who conducts, either as owner or employee, whether for hire or not, any game of fare, monte, roulette, lansquenet, rouge-et-noir, rondo, tan, fan-tan, stud-horse poker, seven-and-a-half, twenty-one, hokey-pokey, or any banking or percentage game played with cards, dice, or any device, for money, checks, credit or other representative of value, and every person who plays or bets at or against any of said prohibited games, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Ord. 6 §41, 1922).

Any person who has in his possession or under his control, either as owner, lessee, agent, employee, mortagagee or otherwise, or who permits to be placed, maintained or kept in any room, under his management or control, any slot or card machine, contrivance, appliance or mechanical device upon the result of the action of which money or other valuable thing is staked or hazarded, and which is operated, or played by placing or depositing therein any coins, checks, slugs, balls or other articles or device, or in any manner and by means whereof, or as a result of the operation of which any merchandise, money, representative or articles of value, checks or tokens, redeemable in, or exchangeable for, money or any other thing of value, is won or lost, or taken from or obtained from such machine, when the result of action or operation of such machine, contrivance, appliance or mechanical device is dependent upon hazard or chance, and any person who has in his possession or under his control, either as owner, lessee, agent, employee, mortgagee or otherwise, or who permits to be placed, maintained or kept in any room, space, inclosure or building owned, leased or occupied by him, or under his management or control, any cards, dice, or any dice having more than six faces or bases each, upon the result of action of which any money or other valuable thing is staked or hazarded, or as a result of the operation of which any merchandise, money, representative or article of value, check or token, redeemable in or exchangeable for money or any other thing of value, is won or lost or taken, when the result of action or operation of such dice is dependent upon hazard or chance, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Ord. 6 §42, 1922).

Any person who knowingly permits any of the games mentioned in the preceding Sections 9.16.010 and 9.16.020 to be played, conducted or dealt in any house owned or rented by such person, in whole or in part, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Ord. 6 §43, 1922).