HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances - No. 144ORDINANCE NO. 344 . .
AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE EXPOSURE OF GAMBLING +ABIES OR IMPLFXENT
IN A ROOM BARRED OR BARRICADED OR PROTECTED IN ANY MANNER TO MAIZE IT DIFFICULT OF ACCESS OR INGRESS TO POLICE OFFICERS,
CADED OR PROTECTED IN ANY MANNER TO MAKE IT DIFFICULT OF ACCESS OR
INGRESS TO POLICE, IN WHICH GAMBLING TABLES OR IMPLEMENTS ARE
EXHIBITED OR EXPOSED, WHEN THBEE OR NORF, PERSONS ARE PRESENT.
WmN THREE OR MORE PERSONS ARE PFESENT, OR THE VISITING OF A ROOM BARRED OR BARRI-
The Board of Trustees of the City of Lodi do ordain as
follows :
Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person within
the limits of the City of Lodi to exhibit or expose to view in any
barred or barricaded house or room, or in any place built or pro-
tected in a manner to make it difficult of access or ingress to
police officers, when theee or more persons are present, any cards,
dice, dominoes, fan-tan table or layout, or any part of such layout,
or any gambling implements whatsoever.
Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any person within
the limits of the City of Lodi to visit or resort to any such barred
or barricaded house or room or other place built or protected in a
manner to make it difficult of access or ingress to police officers,
where any cards,dice, dominoes, fan-tan table or layout, or any part
of such layout, or any gambling implements whatsoever are exhibited
or exposed to view when three or more persons are present.
Every person who shall violate any of the Section 3.
provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exce c
fi'T&z hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail for a
period of not more than sPxIhqnt'bs'?, or by both such fine and
impr i s onment .
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Section 4. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in
conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed.
Section 5. Should any section or any portion of any sectic
of this ordinance be found unconstitutional, the remainder shall
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continue in full force and effect, it being expressly declared
that such is the intention of said Board of Trustees.
Section 6. This ordinance shall take effect and be
in force on and agter the expiration of thirty days after its
pas sage.
Passed and adopted this ........ day of .............,
1923, by the following vote:
AYES: Trustees .......................................
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NOES: Trustees .......................................
ABSENT: .....................
Approved this ....... day of .................. , 1923.
President of the Board of Trustees of the City of Lodi.
.-v I Cfty Clerk.
,it. * The above ordinance IJo.h%& was regularly introauced on motion
of Trustee Hale at a rewlar meeting of the Board of Trustees
held Idonday. the fifth day of November and by the same motion -_
laid over for not less tkm five dags.
This ordinance was finally passed and adovted at a regular meeting held lbnday, November 19-1923 by €he followi A'YXS: NOES : Trustees, None. ABSENT: jrustees, None. T vote: Trustees, ilo.le;Hickok Eettler ,S- ooner,ShatLuc