It shall be the duty of all members of the department of police to give information to the mayor of every house, room, yard, boat, vessel, or other structure or premises within the city wherein any such game or device or policy shop tickets or lists are or may be set up, kept, or maintained. Such members of the department of police shall take all lawful means to suppress and prevent the playing at or use of any faro table, roulette wheel, or the playing of any game or the use of any device hereinbefore mentioned. For this purpose, when and as often as any such member of the department of police shall have reasonable cause to suspect that any such table, wheel, game, or device is set up, kept, or maintained anywhere within the city, he shall forthwith make complaint thereof before some judge of the municipal court and obtain a warrant authorizing him to enter such house, room, yard, boat, vessel, or other structure, place, or premises, or any part of the same. Such member of the department of police shall thereupon have authority to demand entry thereto. No person shall refuse or fail to open the door or entrance thereto, or shall obstruct or do anything tending to obstruct or prevent the entry of such member of the department of police to any such house, room, yard, boat, vessel, or other structure, place, or premises, or any part thereof, when such member of the department of police shall have a warrant.
It shall be the duty of every member of the department of police to seize any such table, wheel, instrument, device, or thing. All such tables, instruments, devices, or things when seized shall be destroyed.
No person shall obstruct or resist any member of the police department in the performance of any act herein authorized.
(Prior code § 191-6)