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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)
All betting, wagering, speculating, pool-selling, or bookmaking upon any horse race or races or the result thereof, and all gambling and every game of chance of any nature whatsoever, within or upon any racetrack and racecourse, or in any building within any racetrack or racecourse within the city is hereby prohibited.
Any person found violating any of the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $200.00 for each offense.
(Prior code § 191-7)
No person shall keep, occupy, or control any room, shed, tenement, tent, booth, building, or other structure, or any part thereof, or occupy any place anywhere within the city, with any book, instrument, or device for the purpose of taking, recording, or registering bets or wagers or of selling pools, or take, record, or register bets or wagers, or sell pools, upon the result or alleged result of any actual, supposed, alleged, or fictitious trial or test of skill, speed, or power of endurance of man or beast, or upon the result or alleged result of any actual, supposed, alleged, or fictitious political nomination, appointment, or election. Any person, being the owner, lessee, or occupant of any room, shed, tenement, tent, booth, building, or other structure, or part thereof, who shall knowingly permit the same to be used or occupied for any such purpose or shall therein keep, exhibit, or employ any device or apparatus for the purpose of taking, recording, or registering such bets or wagers, or selling such pools, or shall become the custodian or depositary for hire or reward of any money, property, or thing of value staked, wagered, or pledged upon any such result or alleged result, shall be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $200.00 for each offense.
In prosecutions under this section, proof of the taking, recording, or registering of such bet or wager, or pool-selling, shall be prima facie evidence of the violation of said section, and proof shall not be required that there was any actual, supposed, alleged, or fictitious trial or test of skill, speed, or power of endurance of man or beast, or that there was any actual, supposed, alleged, or fictitious political nomination, appointment, or election to which such bet, wager, or pool-selling may appertain.
(Prior code § 191-8)
Except as authorized by the Commissioner of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection under rules established pursuant to Section 4-156-979, no person shall insert, or cause to be inserted, or print or publish, or cause to be printed or published, in any newspaper or other publication printed, published, or circulated in the city, any notice, advertisement, or mention giving or purporting to give information of where or with whom bets or wagers may be made or placed, or where or by whom pools are sold upon the result of any trial or test of skill, speed, or power of endurance of man or beast, or upon the result of any political nomination, appointment, or election.
No person shall display or exhibit, or distribute or cause to be distributed, any circular, blank, handbill, pamphlet, or other thing containing any such notice, advertisement, or mention described in the above paragraph.
No person shall sell, offer for sale, give away, exhibit, distribute, or cause to be distributed, any newspaper or other publication, circular, blank, handbill, pamphlet, or other written or printed matter giving or purporting to give information concerning the rates at which bets are being offered or taken in the city or elsewhere, or the odds being given or taken on bets within the city or elsewhere, or advice as to betting or the ratio at which bets should be made upon the result of any trial or test of skill, speed, or power of endurance of man or beast, or upon the result of any political nomination, appointment, or election.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $200.00.
(Prior code § 191-9; Amend Coun. J. 12-15-21, p. 42922, § 6)