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ORDINANCE DECLARING GAMBLING DEVICES AND GAMBLING HOUSES TO BE UNLAWFUL AND SETTING FINES
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Every person, firm or corporation who shall set up, keep, or exhibit, or who shall cause to be set up, kept or exhibited, any gaming table or gambling device, commonly known as A. B. C., E. O., rouge et noir, faro bank, crap table, keno, or any other gambling table or gambling device, or bank, of like or similar kind, or of any other description although not herein named, be the name or denomination what it may, which is or may be adapted or designed for the purpose of playing any game of chance or at which any money or thing of value may be won or lost, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than Five Hundred nor more than One Thousand Dollars, one-half of said fine to go to the informant.
Any person, firm or corporation who may be the owner or controller of any building, who shall knowingly lease or permit any person, firm or corporation to set up, keep or exhibit any table or gambling device as is prohibited in the preceding section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than Five Hundred Dollars nor more than One Thousand Dollars, said fine to a lien on said building subject only to prior incumbrances, for the payment of said fine. Whenever any gambling table or gambling device such as is prohibited in this section shall be found to be operated in any building, said owner or controller of said building shall be presumed to know that said gambling table or gambling device is so operated in said building.
Every person, firm or corporation who may be the owner or controller of any building, room, tenement or apartment, who shall knowingly lease to or permit any person, firm or corporation to carry on therein any kind or character of gambling, whether with cards, dice or game of hazard of skill, wherein or whereby money or other thing...
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