Except as otherwise expressly permitted by state law, no person engaged in conducting or carrying on a betting pool or in conducting the business of making book or selling pools on races, or the betting or laying of wagers upon the results of any race or contest, shall have in his or her possession any written or printed form, chart, table, list sheet, circular or publication of any kind giving or purporting to give any list of entries for any horse race or other contest thereafter anywhere to take place, if there be written or printed or published as part thereof, any tip, information, prediction or selection of, or advice as to, or any key, cipher or cryptogram indicating, containing or giving any tip, information, publication or selection of, or advice as to the winner or probable winner, or a loser or probable loser, or the result or probable result of any such race or other contest or the standing or probable standing of any horse or contestant therein or any statement as to, or comment upon, or reference to, the form, condition or standing of any horse or other contestant, or the actual, probable or possible result of any race or contest, or the actual, probable or possible state, past, present or future of the betting, wagering or odds upon or against any horse or other contestant named in such list, or probable or possible list, or entries unless the names of such horses or other contestants shall be arranged in such list, or probable or possible list, in alphabetical order, and shall all be printed in type of the same size and face and of identical appearance, and shall all be printed flush with the left side of the column in which the same are printed, or all and equal distance therefrom. (Ord. 4121 § 1 (part); April 29, 1980; Ord. 5831 § 7; October 15, 2002.)