§ 31-21 FIXTURES AND THE LIKE FOR LIGHTING PUBLIC PLACES — DAMAGING OR DESTROYING.

   It shall be unlawful for any person to damage or destroy any lighting fixture, bulb, cable, wire, insulator, transformer or any other equipment designed for the illumination of any public street, park, playground, or other public place, or any equipment designed for the production or transmission of electrical current for the illumination.

(Ord. 2020, passed 12-11-1967)

§ 31-22 GAMBLING HOUSE — KEEPING.

   No person or persons shall keep any house, building, room, shed, yard, garden or dependency thereof, to be used or occupied for gambling or gaming, and no person or persons, being the owner or owners of any such house, building, room, shed, yard or garden, shall rent or lease the same to be used or occupied for gambling or gaming.

(Ord. 144, passed 3-10-1902)

Cross-reference:

   Gambling at airport, see § 5-15

   Games of skill or chance at carnivals and the like, see § 8-53

   Mechanical amusement device with automatic payoff prohibited, see § 12-36

Statutory reference:

   Gambling, see MCLA 750.301 et seq.

§ 31-23 SAME — PERMITTING HOUSE TO BE USED FOR GAMBLING.

   If any person or persons being the owner or owners, lessee or lessees or managers of any house, building, room, shed, yard or garden shall know that any gambling or gaming table, implement or apparatus for gambling or gaming are kept or used in such house, building, room, shed, yard or garden for winning or gaining money or other valuable thing, and shall not forthwith cause a complaint to be made against the person or persons so keeping or using such house, building, room, shed, yard or garden, such person or persons shall be taken, held and considered to have knowingly permitted the same to be used and occupied for gaming or gambling.

(Ord. 144, passed 3-10-1902)

§ 31-24 SAME — FREQUENTING.

   No person or persons shall resort to any house, building, room, shed, yard, garden or other place within the City of Flint, for the purpose of gaming or gambling, or aiding or abetting therein, and no person shall, while in any saloon, or in or at any other place whatsoever in the City, engage in gaming or gambling, or aid or abet therein, by advising or assisting the principals, or by buying any check, slip, card or ticket to represent money to be used in betting on the result of any game.

(Ord. 144, passed 3-10-1902)

§ 31-25 SAME — RIGHT OF ENTRY OF POLICE; SEIZURE AND DISPOSITION OF GAMBLING DEVICES.

   The Chief of Police or any member of the Police force of the City may enter any house, building, room, shed, yard, garden or other place where they have good reason to believe and do believe any gaming or gambling is going on, or any gaming instrument or device or thing used for the purpose of gaming on or with, by which money or other valuable thing may be lost or won is used, kept or concealed, and no person or persons shall in any manner refuse to admit such officers, when admittance is demanded by them, or in any manner hinder or delay them from entering upon demand; said officers may seize or direct to be seized any such instrument, device or thing used for the purpose of gaming on or with by which money or other valuable thing may be lost or won, and all such instruments, devices and things may be demolished or destroyed under the direction of the Chief of Police in case the person or persons in whose possession the same were found shall be convicted of gambling. If such articles are not found in the immediate possession of any person, they shall be kept for a claimant, any person claiming to have been the owner thereof at the time of the taking of the same as aforesaid, shall be as aforesaid upon giving sufficient surety to keep the peace, entitled to a return of such articles, if not convicted.

(Ord. 144, passed 3-10-1902)

§ 31-26 GLUE, MARIHUANA, CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES AND OTHER TOXIC SUBSTANCES — DEFINITIONS OF CERTAIN TERMS.

   As used in this ordinance:

   MODEL AIRPLANE GLUE. Any glue or cement of the type commonly used in the building of model airplanes, boats and automobiles, containing toluene, acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, ethylene dichloride, benzene, carbon tetrachloride, chloroform and other ketones, esters, alcohols, or other solvent or chemical having the property of releasing toxic vapors.

   OTHER TOXIC SUBSTANCE. Naphtha, methanol, toxic esters, ethanol, ester, methyl cellusolve acetate or other volatile substances containing naphtha, methanol or ethanol as active ingredients.

(Ord. 1899, passed 4-18-1966)

§ 31-27 SAME — PURCHASE, SALE AND THE LIKE.

   No person shall, for the purpose of violating or aiding another to violate any provision of §§ 31-27.1 through 31-31, intentionally possess, buy, sell, transfer possession or receive possession of any model airplane glue, marihuana or other toxic substances.

(Ord. 1899, passed 4-18-1966; Ord. 2982, passed 3-10-1986)