HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 704-A ORDINANCE NO. 704-a
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, pro-
pelled, 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 otherwise 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 combin-
ation 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, con-
trolled 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.
(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 other-
wise displaced, recovered or removed by the operation of any
contrivance simulating in miniature of power-shovel, clam-
shell, dragline or similar excavating tool or machine.
(e) HORSE RACING MACHINE. Any mechanically operated
amusement machine or device contrived to simulate in miniature
the running of a horse race or any other race run by beasts,
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humans or machines, or which is contrived to put in motion
any number of ofjects 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 represent, by symbols, the
running of any race and the order of the finish therof.
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, permitted or made available by placing therein
a 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 .
(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 contrivances or devices are kept
solely for sale in 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 . "
I James Miller, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, Los
Angeles County, California, do hereby certify that the fore-
going ordinance was passed and adopted by the electors at the
General Municipal Election, held in the City of Azusa. on
April 10, 1962.
f' City Clerk