It shall be unlawful for any person, either as owner, lessee, agent, employee, mortgagee or otherwise, to operate, keep, maintain, rent, use or conduct, within the city, any clock, tape, slot machine or any other machine, contrivance or device upon which money is staked or hazarded upon chance, or upon the result of the action of which money, or other article of value is staked, bet, hazarded, won or lost upon chance.
(1995 Code, § 6.24.010)