4-4-1: LICENSE REQUIRED:
It shall be unlawful for any person either as owner, lessee or employee, whether for hire or not, to deal, operate, carry on, conduct, maintain or expose for play any game of faro, monte, roulette, keno, fan-tan, twenty one, blackjack, seven and a half, big injun, klondyke, craps, stud poker, draw poker, or any banking or per played with cards, dice, or any mechanical device or machine, for money, property, checks, credit, or any representative of value; or any gambling game in which any person keeping, conducting, managing or permitting the same to be carried on, receives, directly or indirectly, any compensation or reward, or any percentage or share of the money or property played, for keeping, running, carrying on, or permitting the game to be carried on, or to play, maintain or keep any slot machine played for money, for checks or tokens redeemable in money or property, without having first procured a license for the same as hereinafter provided; and provided further, that no alien, or any person except a citizen of the United States, shall be issued a license, or shall directly or indirectly own, operate or control any game or device so licensed. (Ord. 55, 7-1-1931)