HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances - No. 26ORDINANCE NO. &o
AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING GAMBLING GAMES AND PRESENCE THEREAT
BY IMPOSING PENALTIES IN RELATION TO THE SAME.
The Board of Trustees of the City of Lodi do ordain as
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Section 1.- Every person who, within the City of Lodi, deals,
plays, participates in, opens or carries on, or who, either as
owner or employee, whether for hire or not, conducts, any game
played with cards, dice, machine or other device, for money or
representative of money or other thing of value, is punishable
by imprisonment in the county jail of the county of San Joaquin
or the city-jail of the City of Lodi not to exceed ninety days
or by a fine not to exceed one hundred doilars or by both such
imprisonment andfine or by such fine with a direction in the-’
judgment that the defendant be SO imprisoned until the fine &
satisfied, the judgment specifying the term of such imprisonment
which must not exceed one day for each dollar of the fine.
Section 2.- Every person who, knowing or having reason to
know that any game prohibited or described in section one of this
ordinance aforesaid or by section three hundred and thirty-of the
penal Code or by any other statuary provision of the State of
California, is being dealt, played, opened carried on or con-
ducted, remains present thereat after SO kndwing or having reason
to know, is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail of the
Sounty of San Joaquin or the city jail of the City of Lodi not
to exceedsixty days or by a fine not to exceed one hundred
fiollars or by both such imprisonment and fine or by such fine
vith a direction in the judgment that the defendant be so imprisone
until the fine is,satisfied, the judgment specifying the term of
such imprisonment m5% which must not exceed one day for each
ioliar of the fine.
Section 3.- Nothing in this ordinance authorizes the prosecu-
tion under this ordinance of any act or conduct which constitutes
an offence under the provisions of section three hundred and
thirty of the Penal Code or any other statutory provision of the
State of California, nor does this ordinance authorize imprisonment
eor a term greater than three months.
Section 4.- This ordinance shall be published at least once
is the xL 19* He-, a newspaper published in the
City of Lodi, and shall take ~[e%%amB; and+.have effect from and after
the day of such publication.
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The foregoing ordinance was introduced at !+,regular m
of the Board of Trustees of the City of Lodi on the
?jleting
day of 8- 1907, and was thereafter at a regular meeting
1907, adopted and passed by the following vote:
of said Board of Trustees on the /@t day of * 9
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Noes:
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Absent:
Approved 7 c/;L 1907.
of the City of Lodi.
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