San Joaquin County Municipal Code Ch. 1 Gambling

(a) No person upon any trial or contest of skill, speed, or power of endurance between horses, dogs, or other animals, shall within any part of the County subject to the police power of the County sell any pool or pools or make any book, list, or memorandum for or on which money or other articles of value shall be received or entered up, listed or written, or receive any money or other articles of value as a stake or pledge upon the happening or nonhappening of any event; or sell, issue, or dispose of any ticket, certificate, or other evidence of payment on which shall be inscribed, written, marked, or printed any number, name, word or mark, or anything to designate the choice selected, received, or accepted by any other person to entitle or enable the person holding the ticket, certificate, or other evidence of payment to gain or lose on any contingent issue; or receive any money or any article of value, or anything representing money or any article of value, as a bet, wager, or hazard upon the event of any contest or contingent issue, or as a stake or pledge between two or more parties, or to disburse the money or any portion of the money, or anything representing money or other article of value upon any representation or condition, or in conformity to or with any express or tacit understanding or agreement; or receive any money or article of value, or representative of money or article of value, in any capacity whatsoever, for the purpose of taking or sending the same to any fair or racetrack enclosure, either within or without this State where a contest of skill, speed, or power of endurance is being held, to be registered, placed, wagered, or bet at that fair, or within that track or enclosure, upon the result of the contest of skill, speed, or power of endurance of horse, dogs, or other animals, then being held or carried on.

(b) No person shall lease, rent, or allow to be occupied or used any building, structure, room, apartment, place, or premises whatever, situated in any part of the County subject to the police power of the County, for any of the purposes specified, mentioned, and prohibited in subsection (a).

(Ord. 319)

(a) No person within the County shall deal, play, participate in, open, or carry on any game played with cards, dice, dominoes, machine, or other device for money or representative of money; or conduct or assist in conducting, either for gain or gratuitously, any of these games; or knowingly permit, either for gain or gratuitously, any of these games to be dealt, played, carried on, or conducted in any house, room, or place, owned, rented, managed, or controlled by that person in whole or in part; or knowingly permit, either for gain or gratuitously, any cards, dice, dominoes, machine, chair, seat, table, or other device or furniture owned, rented, managed, or controlled by that person to be used in dealing, playing, carrying on, or conducting any of these games; or knowingly sell, loan, or give away any cards or other device to be used in dealing, playing, carrying on, or conducting any of these games.

(b) Nothing in this section authorizes the prosecution under this section of any act or conduct which constitutes an offense under the provisions of Section 330 of the Penal Code or any other statutory provisions of the State.

(c) Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00) nor more than FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the County Jail not exceeding six (6) months, or by both.

(Ord. 351)