(A) Maintaining house. No person shall set up, keep or maintain, or permit to be set up, kept or maintained, in any house or place within the Village, occupied or controlled by him, any instrument, device or thing for the purpose of gambling, or with which money or property or anything representing money or property, or anything of value, shall in any manner be wagered.
(B) Inmates of houses. No person shall be a frequenter, visitor, inmate, doorkeeper, solicitor, runner, agent, or abettor of or for any house or any place where any instrument or device for gambling is kept, whereon or with which money or property may be placed for wager.
(C) House nuisances. Every house, room, building or premises kept or used for the purpose of permitting persons to gamble for any valuable thing is declared to be a common nuisance and shall be abated as such upon the order of the Chief of Police.
(D) Playing games of chance. No person shall deal, play or engage in any device or game of chance or hazard, either as banker, dealer or otherwise, nor shall any person bet on any game others may be playing for the purpose of gambling.
(E) Possessing devices. No person shall bring into the Village, or have in his possession in the Village for the purpose of gambling, any table, thing or device of any kind or nature, whereon or with which money, or any other thing of value may in any manner be wagered.
(F) Lotteries. No person shall keep, maintain or manage or aid in keeping, maintaining, directing or managing any lottery or device for the drawing or disposing of money or any other property. This shall not apply to the state operated lottery.
(G) Exposing devices. No person shall expose in any street or other public place within the Village any table or device upon or by which any game of chance or hazard can be played.
(H) Suppression. It shall be the duty of members of the Police Department to give information to the Chief of Police of each house or other place within the Village wherein games, devices, tables, instruments or things for the purpose of gambling are or may be set up or maintained, and the police officers shall take all lawful means to suppress and prevent the playing at such tables, games or devices; and for this purpose, when, and as often as any of them shall have reasonable cause to suspect that any such table, game or device is set up, kept or maintained, he shall immediately make complaint thereof before a magistrate and obtain a warrant authorizing him to enter such house or other place or any room within the same; and the police officer shall thereupon have authority to demand entry therein.
(I) Seizure and destruction of devices. It is the duty of every member of the Police Department to seize any table, instrument, device or thing used for the purpose of gambling; and all such tables, instruments, devices or things shall be destroyed upon the order of the Chief of Police.
(J) Exception. The prohibitions set forth in this section shall not apply to the location, maintenance or operation of any device lawfully licensed and operated as authorized by Chapter 125 of this Code and pursuant to the Video Gaming Act, 230 ILCS 40/1 et seq.
(1997 Code, § 42.11) (Am. Ord. CO-2013-37, passed 6-4-2013)