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)