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Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of Sections 325 and 326 of this Article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100, nor more than $500, or by imprisonment in the County Jail for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
(Added by Ord. 1.075, App. 10/11/38)
It shall be unlawful for any person in the City and County of San Francisco to become an inmate of or, for any unlawful purpose to visit any house, premises, room, apartment or place carried on, conducted, or used as a "Poolroom" or house, premises, room or apartment carried on, conducted or used as a place for, or for the purpose of making, buying or selling pools, or for making "books," or pools, or for making bets or wagers or for making out, issuing or delivering "pool tickets," cards, prints, papers or memoranda showing or indicating, or purporting or understood to show or indicate the character or nature of a pool, or bet, or wager, or amount of money, or thing, or article staked, pledged or wagered, or for recording or registering "books," pools, bets or wagers or for the receipt, payment, distribution of money or other articles or things as representatives of value paid, offered, staked, pledged, bet, wagered, lost or won on a horse race, or on horse racing, on a contest or on contest of speed between horses, or on a dog race, or on dog racing, or on a contest or on contests of speed between dogs, or on a contest or on contest between men.
(Amended by Ord. 59-58, App. 2/5/58)
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell or buy pools or make books or make or receive as principal or agent or otherwise, any bet or wager whereby money or other representative of value is staked or pledged on a race or races understood to be run, or purporting to be run between horses.
(Added by Ord. 1.075, App. 10/11/38)
It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation in the City and County of San Francisco to sell or buy or make books or make any bet or wager in any system of registering bets or wagers wherein money or any other representative of value is staked or pledged on races between dogs.
(Added by Ord. 1.075, App. 10/11/38)
It shall be unlawful for any person in the City and County of San Francisco to sell or buy pools or make books, or make any bet or wager in any system of registering bets or wagers wherein money or any other representative of value, or other articles of value are staked or pledged on contests between men.
(Added by Ord. 1.075, App. 10/11/38)
No person, otherwise competent as a witness, is disqualified from testifying as such concerning the offenses defined in Sections 331 to 335, inclusive, of this Article, on the ground that such testimony may incriminate such witness under the provisions defined in said sections, but no prosecution can afterward be had against such witness for any offense defined in said sections, concerning which he testified.
(Added by Ord. 1.075, App. 10/11/38)
It shall be unlawful for any person to advise or solicit or challenge another person to bet or wager anything of value on the game played by means of a strap and commonly known as the "strap game" or "trick of the loop," or to win or acquire any money or thing of value from any person by means of said game. Any instrument, of whatever texture, used to play said "strap game" or "trick of the loop," shall be deemed a strap for the purposes of Sections 340 and 341 of this Article.
(Added by Ord. 1.075, App. 10/11/38)