San Bernardino Municipal Code Ch. 9.44 Games of Chance

Section

Statutory reference:

For provisions on gaming, see Cal. Penal Code, §§ 330 et seq.

For provisions on lotteries, see Cal. Penal Code, §§ 319 et seq.

It is unlawful for any person, either as principal, agent, employee or otherwise, knowingly to permit any house, room, apartment or place owned by him or her or under his or her charge or control, to be used in whole or in part for playing, conducting, dealing or carrying on therein any game of chance not mentioned in the Cal. Penal Code, §§ 330 and 330a or other state law, with cards, dice, billiard balls, pool balls, cues, pins, checkers, counters, quoits, beans, spindles, tables, wheels or machines, or any other device, contrivance or apparatus, for money, checks, chips, credit or any other representative of value or for any merchandise or any other thing of value.

(Ord. 536, passed 11-4-1913; Ord. 2643, passed 2-2-1965)

It is unlawful for any person to play or bet at or against, or as owner or employee to open, deal, play, carry on or conduct, any game of chance not mentioned in the Cal. Penal Code, §§ 330 or 330a or other state law, which is played, conducted, dealt or carried on with cards, dice, billiard balls, pool balls, cues, pins, checkers, counters, quoits, beans, spindles, tables, wheels, machines or any other device, contrivance or apparatus, for money, checks, chips, credit or any other representative of value or for any merchandise or any other thing of value.

(Ord. 536, passed 11-4-1913; Ord. 2643, passed 2-2-1965)

Any person violating any provision of this chapter is guilty of an infraction, which, upon conviction thereof, is punishable in accordance with the provisions of § 1.12.010.

(Ord. 536, passed 11-4-1913; Ord. MC-460, passed 5-15-1985)