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RESOLUTION NO. 4300
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
AZUSA SUBMITTING TO THE VOTERS A PROPOSITION FOR
THE ENACTMENT OF AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING THE
POSSESSION OF CERTAIN COIN GAMES AND SIMILAR
MACHINES AND DEVICES.
The City Council of the City of Azusa does resolve as follows:
SECTION 1. That at the regular municipal election to be
held in the City of Azusa on April 10, 1962 there shall be submitted to
the voters a proposition for the enactment of the following ordinance
prohibiting the possession of certain coin games and similar machines
and devices:
"AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF AZUSA ADDING TO THE AZUSA
MUNICIPAL CODE CERTAIN PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE
POSSESSION OF CERTAIN COIN GAMES AND SIMILAR MACHINES
AND DEVICES.
The People of the City of Azusa do ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. The Azusa Municipal Code is hereby amended by
the addition thereto of four new Sections, numbered 4205 through 4208,
reading respectively as follows:
'SECTION 4205. GAMES AND SIMILAR CONTRIVANCES. DEFINITIONS.
For the purposes of this Part, the following terms are defined
as hereinafter set forth:
(a) PIN GAME. Any table, cabinet or mechanism equipped for
the playing of any game whereby any marble, ball, pellet or other
moving object is propelled, released, rolled or shot along, over
or above a surface set with pins, pegs or other obstructions or
irregularities which deflect or impede the course of the moving
object or which may divert or direct it beyond the control of
the player.
(b) MARBLE GAME. Any table, cabinet or stand equipped for
the playing of a game whereby marbles or balls are, with the aid
of a mechanical plunger or other affixed device, propelled, released,
shot or rolled so as to drop or come to rest in holes, slots, cups
or traps, resulting in a score or tally being electrically or other-
wise registered or shown which score or tally depends upon the course
followed or point reached by the marble or ball or upon the contact
points touched by it along its course, or upon any combination of
such factors.
(c) GAMES SIMILAR TO A MARBLE GAME. 'Bailey -Alley, and any
other miniature mechanical bowling game device, by whatever name
called; any table, cabinet or mechanical device equipped for the
playing of any game whereby any marble, ball, pellet or any moving
object is propelled, rolled, shot or released toward a goal, pin,
set of pins, or other objective by means of any plunger, ejector,
mechanical bat, mechanical hand or by means of any other striking
or releasing mechanism which is affixed or attached to the table
or cabinet, or which is an integral part of the mechanical device
or which is mechanically manipulated, controlled or guided, and
which game is so contrived that, at the conclusion of the operation
or play thereof the score or result of play thereof is visible or
otherwise discernible so as to permit or make practicable the
paying off or awarding of a prize or reward upon the operation or
play of the game.
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(d) CLAW, HOOK OR GRAB MACHINE. Any amusement machine or
device so designed that articles placed or heaped therein for the
purpose of the game may be grabbed, hooked, or otherwise displaced,
recovered or removed by the operation of any contrivance simulating
in minature of power -shovel, clam -shell, dragline or similar exca-
vating tool or machine.
(e) HORSE RACING MACHINE. Any mechanically operated amuse-
ment machine or device contrived to simulate in miniature the running
of a horse race or any other race run by beasts, humans or machines,
or which is contrived to put in motion any number of objects or
symbols which then do, or appear to, run or move against each other
in the manner of a miniature race, or which is designed to repre-
sent, by symbols, the running of any race and the order of the
finish thereof.
SECTION 4206. SAME. COIN OPERATED. PROHIBITED.
No person shall keep, maintain or possess in any place of
business or in any place of public resort or any other place:
(a) Any pin game, any marble game or any game similar to a
marble game, any claw, hook or grab machine, or any horse race
machine, the operation of which game or machine is controlled, per-
mitted or made available by placing therein a coin, plug, disk, key
or token, or which is let for use, operation or play upon the pay-
ment or delivery of anything of value therefor, or upon the making
of any purchase.
(b) Any mechanical device or mechanically operated contrivance
for the playing of any game of chance, the use or operation of which
is controlled, permitted or made available by placing therein any
coin, plug, disk, key, or token, or which is let for use, operation
or play upon the payment or delivery of anything of value therefor,
or upon the making'of any purchase.
SECTION 4207. SAME. EXCEPTIONS.
The provisions of Section 4206 shall not apply to the keeping,
possessing or exhibiting of any such mechanical contrivance or
device at or in any mercantile store in which such mechanical con-
trivances or devices are kept solely for sale and which mechanical
contrivances or devices members of the public are not permitted or
allowed to operate, manipulate or play except as incident to a
demonstration for the purpose of sale.
SECTION 4208. UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF MACHINES DECLARED TO
BE A NUISANCE.
Any machine, contrivance, appliance, device, game, ticket,
chance, share, interest, instrument or article operated, used, kept,
possessed, placed or maintained in violation of the provisions of:
�a Section 330a of the Penal Code of the State; or
b) Any Section enumerated in Part I, Title 9, Chapter 9
of the Penal Code of the State; or
(c) Section 4206,
is hereby declared to be a nuisance and shall be destroyed in the
manner provided for in Section 335a of the Penal Code.0"
SECTION 2. That the enactment of said ordinance be submitted
to the voters in the form of a proposition printed on the ballot as
follows: "Shall the ordinance prohibiting the possession of certain
coin games and similar machines and devices be adopted? % and 1£ it
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appears that a majority of the votes cast thereon at such election are in
favor of said proposition, the said ordinance shall become a valid and
binding ordinance of the City.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk is hereby directed to cause said
proposition to be placed upon the ballot at said election and to comply
with the provisions of Section 4020 of the Elections Code of the State
of California.
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this resolution.
Adopted and approved this 19th day of February , 1962.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly
adopted by the City Council of the City of Azusa at a regular meeting
thereof held on the 19th day of February, 1962, by the following vote
of the Council:
AYES: Councilmen: Paul, McLees, Johnson, Teasley, Ortuno
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT: Councilmen: None
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