HomeMy WebLinkAbout051CITY OF IRWINDALE
LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
ORDINANCE N0, 51
AN, ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF IRWINDALE
PROHIBITING THE DEALINGS PLAYING, CARRYING ON OR CONDUCTING
OF GAMS OF CHANCE, AND ACTING AS LOOKOUTS FOR ILLEGAL ACTS.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF IRWINDALE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. ,Games Prohibited. Every person who deals,
plays, carries on, ops s, or causes to be opened, or oonduots,
any game of.chanoe played with cards, dice or any other device,
for money, checks, credits or other thing of value, and every
person who bets at any of said prohibited games, is guilty of
a misdemeanor.
SECTION 2.Permitting Games Prohibited. -Every person
who knowingly permits any game pro e y this ordinance to
be played, conducted, or dealt in any house or other promises
owned by, rented by or in the lawful possession of such person,
is guilty of a misdemeanor.
SECTION 3. Lookouts. Every person who acts as a guard or
lookout for any bu ng, premises, or establishment used for
gembling,-proatituion, or any other form of vio or illegal act,
or where alcoholic beverages are illegally kept, sold, or pur-
chased, or for any person soliciting, offering, or engaging in
prostitution, gambling, or any other form of vice, or illegal
act, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
SECTION 4., Same. Every person who gives any signal in-
tended to, or oaloTu a ted to warn, or give warning of the approach
of any peace officer to any person in or about any building or
premises or places mentioned in Section 3 of this ordinance, is
guilty of a misdemeanor.
SECTION 5. Destruotion of Gamin E ui meat. The -Sheriff,
or other law enforcemen agency or
s y, shall destroy any
game, cards, or other thing which is used, kept, placed or main-
tained in violation of any statute or of this or any other ordi-
nance after any person, firm, corporation, or association, owning,
possessing or having control of such cards, game or.thing has
pleaded guilty to or has been convicted of such violation and
such plea of guilty or conviction has become final.
SECTION 6. Deposit of Money. The Sheriff, or other law
enforcement agency or this cityj shall deposit with the City
Clerk to the credit of the general .fund all money contained in
any game or thing he destroys pursuant to the provisions of
Section 5 of, this ordinance. He shall destroy all other con-
tents of such game or thing.
SECTION 7.- A lilacs tion to Court. The Sheriff, or other
law enforcement ageno o h' Hie—City, shall app17 to the judge
of any court which has custody of any thing subject to destruc-
tion under the terms of Section 5 of this ordinance for an order
releasing such cards, game or thing to him for the purpose of
complying with this ordinance.
SECTION 8. Penalty. Every violation of this ordinance
is a misdemeanor pu- ssiable by imprisonment in the County Jail
for not more than six (6) months, or by a fine of not more -than
Five Hundred Dollars ($500), or by both such fine and imprison-
ment.
SECTION 9. Severability. If any section, subsection, sen-
tence, clause, phrase or por ion of this ordinance, or the
application thereof to any person, firm, corporation or eircum-
stance, is for any reason held to be invalid or unoonetitutlonal
by the decision of any court of ogmpetent jurisdiction, such
decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions
of this ordinance. The Council of the City.,of-Irwindale hereby
declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each
aection, subsection, sentence, clause`, phrase orrtion thereof,
irrespective of the fact that any one or more, -,**,,subsection,
sentence, clause, phrase'or portion be-dealmred oid or un-
constitutional.
SECTION 10. Effeotive Date and ublioatlon. This ordinance
shall take effect thirty ay
s a er Pe date or its adoption and,
prior to the expiration of fifteen days from the passage thereof,
shall be posted in three public places within the city limits of
the City of Irwindale, as presoribed by Resolution No. 57-1.
ADOPTED this 19 day of Nlav 1958.
mayor
ATTEST:
CClark
ity
I. MERLE H. MATHESON, City Clerk of the City of Irwindale,
do; hereby certify that the above Ordinance No, 51 was regularly
introduced and placed upon its first reading At n regular meet-
ing of the City Council on the 28 day of April, 1958. That
not less than 5 days thereafter sated ordinance was duly adopted
and passed at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 19—
day of May , 1958, by the following vote, to wits
Ayes DIAZ, GARCIA, MARTINEZ ORNELAS, SILVA
Noes NOPIE Absent NOi�
I further certify that said ordinance was thereupon signed
by the Mayor of the City,of Irwindale.
City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES
CITY OF IRWINDALE )
MERLE H. MATHESON, being first duly sworn, deposes
and says:
That he is the City Clerk of the City of Irwindale,
California, and is and was at all times herein mentioned a
citizen of the United States over the age of eighteen (18)
years and competent to be a witness herein.
On May , 1958, he securely and conspicuously posted
at each of the public places in said city, to wit:
(1) 5140 North Irwindale Avenue
(2) Post Office on Irwindale Avenue
(3) Southwest corner of Arrow Highway and
Irwindale Avenue
a copy of Ordinance No. 51 of the City of Irwindale, being
in all respects the same as that attached hereto and made a
part hereof.
Dated: Maya/, 1958.
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