Except as may be permitted by Federal and/or State law, and title 3, chapter 10 of this Code, it shall be unlawful for any person to gamble or to keep a gambling place within the corporate limits of the City, as these terms are herein defined.
GAMBLING: A person commits gambling when he:
A. Plays a game of chance or skill for money or other things of value; or
B. Makes a wager upon the result of any game, contest or any political nomination, appointment or election; or
C. Operates, keeps, owns, uses, purchases, exhibits, rents, sells, bargains for the sale or lease of any gambling device; or
D. Knowingly owns or possesses any books, instruments or apparatus by means of which bets or wagers have been or are recorded or registered; or
E. Sells pools upon the result of any game or contest of skill or chance, political nomination, appointment or election; or
F. Sets up or promotes any lottery or sells, offers to sell or offers or transfers any ticket or share for any lottery; or
G. Sets up or promotes any policy game or sells, offers to sell or knowingly possesses or transfers any policy ticket or other similar device; or
H. Knowingly advertises any lottery game, or drafts, prints, or publishes any lottery ticket or share, or any policy ticket or similar device, or any advertisement of any lottery or policy game; or
I. Knowingly transmits information as to wagers, betting odds, or changes in betting odds by telephone, telegraph, radio, megaphone or similar means; or knowingly installs equipment for the transmission or receipt of such information; except that nothing in this subsection prohibits transmission or receipt of such information for the use of news reporting of sporting events or contests.
GAMBLING DEVICE: Any clock, tape machine, slot machine or other machines or devices for the reception of money or other things of value on chance or skill or upon the action of which money or other things of value is staked, hazarded, bet, won or lost; or any mechanism, furniture, fixture, equipment or other device designed primarily for use in a gambling place. A gambling device does not include:
A. A coin in the slot operated mechanical device played for amusement which awards the player with the right to replay such mechanical device, which device is so constructed or devised as to make such result of the operation thereof depend in part upon the skill of the player and which returns to the player thereof no money, property or right to receive money or property.
B. Vending machines by which full and adequate return is made for the money invested and in which there is no element of chance or hazard.
C. Video gaming terminal as defined by section 3-10-1 of this Code.
GAMBLING PLACE: Any real estate, vehicle, boat or any other property whatsoever used for the purpose of gambling.
LOTTERY: A scheme or procedure whereby one or more prizes are distributed by chance among persons who have paid or promised consideration for a chance to win such prizes, whether such scheme or procedure is called a lottery, raffle, gift or sale or some other name.
POLICY GAME: Any scheme or procedure whereby a person promises or guarantees by an instrument, bill, certificate, writing, token or other device that any particular number, character, ticket or certificate shall, in the event of any contingency in the nature of a lottery, entitle the purchaser or holder to receive money, property or evidence of debt. (Ord. 899, 8-12-2019)