7.20.040 CONDUCT OF ILLEGAL GAMES — CONTROL OF PREMISES OF ILLEGAL GAMES.
   .010   Every person who causes, either directly or indirectly, any game prohibited by any provision of either Section 7.20.010 or 7.20.020 of this Code to be played, dealt, opened, carried on, or conducted, or who conducts or participates in the conduct of any such prohibited game, whether as owner, employee or unpaid volunteer, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
   .020   Every person, firm, corporation or association who, for profit, or for anything of value, or for commercial purposes of any nature, keeps, operates, conducts or maintains, either directly or indirectly, within the City of Anaheim, any house, room, apartment, dwelling place, building, premises or other place where any game prohibited by any provision of either Section 7.20.010 or 7.20.020 of this Code is played, conducted, dealt or carried on, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
   .030   Every person, firm, corporation or association, who, either as owner, lessor, lessee, principal, agent, employee, participant or otherwise, maintains, keeps, operates or conducts, either directly or indirectly and in whole or in part, or who directly or indirectly is in possession of any house, room, apartment, dwelling place, building, premises, or other place upon or in which any games prohibited by any provision of either Section 7.20.010 or 7.20.020 of this Code are played, dealt, conducted or carried on, and who imposes or collects a fee or anything of value for the privilege of participating in any way whatsoever in any such game or as an admission fee to any place where any such game is played or conducted, or who directly or indirectly gains or receives anything of value or any financial profit from the playing, dealing, conducting or carrying on of any such game shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be keeping, conducting, operating and maintaining the same for profit or commercial purposes. (Ord. 1428 § 2 (part); December 22, 1959: Ord. 4121 § 1 (part); April 29, 1980: Ord. 5483 § 1 (part); March 14, 1995.)