HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC ORD 1949-771 Games of chance and skill, repeals Ord. 758 (6.42)771
ORDINANCE NO. 771
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF
NATIONAL CITY, PROHIBITING
CERTAIN GAMES OF CHANCE
AND CERTAIN GAMES COMBIN-
ING CHANCE AND SKILL, IN-
CLUDING 'BRIDGO"; "BINGO";
"SKILL BALL"; "TANGO"; AND
SIMILAR GAMES AND DEVICES,
AND REPEALING ORDINANCE
NO. 758 OF THE ORDINANCES
OF THE. CITY OF NATIONAL CITY
PROVIDING FOR THE REGULA-
TION AND LICENSING OF
GAMES OF SKILL AND SCIENCE.
The City Council of the City of
National City, DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation
or social club to set up, manage,
conduct or maintain any game, ma-
chine or enterprise wherein:
(1) A consideration is paid by the
player.
(2) Prizes are awarded as deter-
mined by skill or by any com-
bination of skill and chance,
and
(3) Said game, machine or enter-
prise is played concurrently
with or alternately or in con-
junction or connection with:
(a) Any lottery
(b) Any game of chance
whether or not -a consider-
ation is paid for playing
the game of chance.
SECTION 2. It shall be unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation
to set up, manage, conduct, or main-
tain in any public place or public
building or on the premises operated
by a social club, any game, machine
or enterprise wherein or whereby
prizes are awarded by operation of
chance and for playing which game,
machine or enterprise no considera-
tion -is furnished -by the player.
SECTION 3. It shall be unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation
to set up, manage, conduct or main-
tain any combination of games, ma-
chines, or enterprises wherein games
of chance and games of skill -are al-
ternated or played in any sequence
with each other so that free games
are used to entice or allure players
into the playing for a consideration
of paid games of skill or paid games
combining the element of chance with
the element of skill.
SECTION 4. This ordinance is in-
tended to prohibit the playing of
"Bingo", "Tango", "Bridgo", "Skill
Ball", or any game or combination
of games similar in operation to such
games, and to apply to free as well
as to paid playing of such games.
SECTION 5. Any person violating
any of the provisions of this Ordi-
nance shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and such violation shall
be punishable by imprisonment in
the City Jail of the City of National
City, not to exceed six months or
by a fine not exceeding 8500.00, or
by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 6. If any section, sub-
section, sentence, clause or phrase of
this Ordinance is for any reason held
to be unconstitutional, the said City
Council hereby declares that it would
have passed this Ordinance irrespec-
tive of the fact that any one or more
sections, sub -sections, sentences,
clauses or phrases thereof be declar-
ed unconstitutional.
SECTION 7. That Ordinance No.
758 of the ordinances of the City of
National City, regulating and licens-
ing certain games of Skill and Sci-
ence, be, and the same is hereby re-
pealed.
SECTION 8. This ordinance shall
take and be in effect as, and of
January 1, 1950.
SECTION 9. The City Clerk is
hereby directed to cause this ordi-
nance to be published once in the
National City News, a newspaper of
general circulation, printed and pub-
lished in the City of National City,
California.
-PASSED AND ADOPTED by the
City Council of the City of National
City, California, this 1st day of No-
vember, 1949, by the following vote,
to -wit:
AYES: Councilmen Curry, Mat-
thews, Thatcher,Fritz.
NAYS: Councilmen Adams.
ABSENT: None.
GILBERT E. FRIT'Z,
Mayor of the City 'of
National City, California.
ATTEST: Irene M. Alston,
City Clerk.
I hereby approve the foregoing Or-
dinance this lst day of November,
1949.
GILBERT E. FRITZ,
Mayor off the City of
' National City,' California.
I hereby certify that the above and
foregoing is a full and true copy of
Ordinance No. 771 of the Ordinances
of the City of National City, Califor-
nia, as adopted by the City Council
of said City, nd pproved by the
Mayor of said ip ity, n the 1st day g
November, 1949X
(Signe
IRENEM. �ALSTON,
City Clerk of the City of
National City, California.
(SEAL)
News: lt; 11-4; Jno. 2120.
AND I HEREBY CERTIFY that
the same Jaa—peen duly published ac-
cording
City Clerk, City of
National City, California.