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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COU11"CIL OF THE CITY OF kRChDIA
ill\',LFDING ORDIl:hi~C.E NO. 320 EllTITLED "AN O;mnJ,.l:C::; uF Tli.l!: CITY COUNCIL
OF T};" CITY OF ARC,mIA ...GAINST KEZPING OR FER:.iITTING TO BE KEPT,
PLkC~8 FOR PLdYItW CERT"Il! G....;,;.:,.8 AHD FRORIBITIl.;G Tl::IE PLAYIHG OR BET.t'IHG
AT Sl;CH GAl,lES; Al~D REPEJ\LING O'lDINANCE 48 OP 81.ID CITY OF ARCf.DIA,"
ADOFTED SEFT;';;:BER 3, 1935, BY "DDHG TlGRC:'i'O " HEri SECTION TO BE
IHJ1,iBhl'{J:o;D SBC'l'IuN2-A.
THE CITY COUilCIL OF THE CITY OF hRCADlh !)O::S CRDiuN AS
FOLLO,IS:
SBCTIO~ That Ordinance No. 320 of the City Council of
the City of Arcadia, entitled "An Ordinance of the City Council of the
City of Arcadia, aGainst keeping or permittin~ to be kept, places for
. playinG certain games and prohibiting the playing or betting at such
games; and repealing Ordinance No. 48 of said City of k'cadia," adopted
September 3, 1935, be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto
a new Section to be known and numbered Section 2-A and to read as
follows:
SECTION 2-A. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or
corporation, as o\'lner, mana[ler, principal, agent, employee or other\'/ise,
to operate, ~:inte.in, conduct or carryon any public card room or
public ~ame room or any other public place, as a business, in the
City of Arcadia, where any poker game, card game, or any game of chance
is played, conducted, carried on or permitted.
SEC'l'ION~ That any person, firm, or corporation violatine any
of the provisions of this Ordinance shall ~e dee~ed ~uilty of a mis-
demeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be puni~hed by fine not
exceeding TlffiE~ HUNDRED (v300) DOLJ~RS or by utprisonment in the City
Jail of said City of Arcadia or in the County Jail of the county of
Los imgeles, Stat,3 of California, at the descretion of the Committing
;'ja~istrate, for a term not exceedin ~ three (;;>) months, or oy both
such fine and imp~isonment.
SECTION 3. All Ordinances and parts of 0rdin~nces in confli~t
with any of' the provisions of' this Ordinance are hereby repealed.
S~CTIOR 4. Ttis Ordinance is hereby declared to be an
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ur:;ency meaSUl'e nelce~sary :Lor the immediate presernl.tion of the public
peace, health and safety. ~he facts constitutin; the urzency are, that
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numerous p3rsons have threatened to open, operate and maintain'_n the
City of Arcadia, public card rooms and 3ame rooms of the kind described
in Section 1, of this Ordinance. That the operating and maintaining
of such rublic curd rOOlllS and c;ame rooms will have a tendency to
weaken and corrupt the morals of, and to encoura[ie idleness instead of:
habits of! industI'Y in those who operate and mc.intain them, and of tl;ose
who frequent or patronize them, and therefore, the immediate passage
of this OrdinancE is necessary.
SECTI~~ 5. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this Ordinance ar..d shall cause the same to be published in one regular
issue of the Arcedia Tribune, a newspaper of ::;eneral circulat"on
published and d.rculatud in said City of lircadia, an,] thereupon and
thereafter the seme shull take ef.ect and be in fo','ce.
regularly adjourned
The foresoins Ordinance was adopted at a ~~ n~eting
of the City Council of the City of Arct:.dia, held on the 16th day
of September, 1938, by the affirmative vote of at least four Councilmen,
to-wit:
AYES: Councilmen, Bolz, Griffitts, ;.:alin, Murphy and i\iday
NOES: Hone
ABSENT: Hone
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Signed and. ar.proved this 16th day of September, 1938.
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