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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)