CHAPTER 10. Gaming
Chapter 10 enacted 1872.
§§ 330–337z · 44 sections
- § 330 Every person who deals, plays, or carries on, opens, or causes to be opened, or who conducts, either as owner or employee, whether for hire or not, any game of…
- § 330a (a) Every person, who has in his or her possession or under his or her control, either as owner, lessee, agent, employee, mortgagee, or otherwise, or who…
- § 330b (a) It is unlawful for any person to manufacture, repair, own, store, possess, sell, rent, lease, let on shares, lend or give away, transport, or expose for…
- § 330c A punchboard as hereinafter defined is hereby declared to be a slot machine or device within the meaning of Section 330b of this code and shall be subject to…
- § 330.1 (a) Every person who manufactures, owns, stores, keeps, possesses, sells, rents, leases, lets on shares, lends or gives away, transports, or exposes for sale…
- § 330.2 As used in Sections 330.1 to 330.5, inclusive, of this code a “thing of value” is defined to be any money, coin, currency, check, chip, allowance, token,…
- § 330.3 In addition to any other remedy provided by law any slot machine or device may be seized by any of the officers designated by Sections 335 and 335a of the…
- § 330.4 It is specifically declared that the mere possession or control, either as owner, lessee, agent, employee, mortgagor, or otherwise of any slot machine or…
- § 330.5 It is further expressly provided that Sections 330.1 to 330.4, inclusive, of this code shall not apply to music machines, weighing machines and machines which…
- § 330.6 The provisions of Sections 330.1 to 330.5, inclusive, of this code, with respect to owning, storing, keeping, possessing, or transporting any slot machine or…
- § 330.7 (a) It shall be a defense to any prosecution under this chapter relating to slot machines, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 330b, if the defendant…
- § 330.8 Notwithstanding Sections 330a, 330b, and 330.1 to 330.5, inclusive, the sale, transportation, storage, and manufacture of gambling devices, as defined in…
- § 330.9 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 330a, 330b, 330.1 to 330.5, inclusive, or any other provision of law, it shall be lawful for any person to transport and possess…
- § 330.11 “Banking game” or “banked game” does not include a controlled game if the published rules of the game feature a player-dealer position and provide that this…
- § 331 Every person who knowingly permits any of the games mentioned in Sections 330 and 330a to be played, conducted, or dealt in any house owned or rented by such…
- § 332 (a) Every person who by the game of “three card monte,” so-called, or any other game, device, sleight of hand, pretensions to fortune telling, trick, or other…
- § 333 Every person duly summoned as a witness for the prosecution, on any proceedings had under this Chapter, who neglects or refuses to attend, as required, is…
- § 334 (a) Every person who owns or operates any concession, and who fraudulently obtains money from another by means of any hidden mechanical device or obstruction…
- § 335 Every district attorney, sheriff, or police officer must inform against and diligently prosecute persons whom they have reasonable cause to believe offenders…
- § 335a In addition to any other remedy provided by law any machine or other device the possession or control of which is penalized by the laws of this State…
- § 336 Every owner, lessee, or keeper of any house used in whole, or in part, as a saloon or drinking place, who knowingly permits any person under 18 years of age to…
- § 336.5 Gaming chips may be used on the gaming floor by a patron of a gambling establishment, as defined in subdivision (o) of Section 19805 of the Business and…
- § 336.9 (a) Notwithstanding Section 337a, and except as provided in subdivision (b), any person who, not for gain, hire, or reward other than that at stake under…
- § 337 Every state, county, city, city and county, town, or judicial district officer, or other person who shall ask for, receive, or collect any money, or other…
- § 337a (a) Except as provided in Section 336.9, every person who engages in one of the following offenses, shall be punished for a first offense by imprisonment in a…
- § 337b Any person who gives, or offers or promises to give, or attempts to give or offer, any money, bribe, or thing of value, to any participant or player, or to any…
- § 337c Any person who accepts, or attempts to accept, or offers to accept, or agrees to accept, any money, bribe or thing of value, with the intention or…
- § 337d Any person who gives, offers to give, promises to give, or attempts to give, any money, bribe, or thing of value to any person who is umpiring, managing,…
- § 337e Any person who as umpire, manager, director, referee, supervisor, judge, presiding officer or official receives or agrees to receive, or attempts to receive…
- § 337f (a) Any person who does any of the following is punishable by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000), or by imprisonment in a county jail not…
- § 337g The possession, transport or use of any local anaesthetic of the cocaine group, including but not limited to natural or synthetic drugs of this group, such as…
- § 337h Any person who, except for medicinal purposes, administers any poison, drug, medicine, or other noxious substance, to any horse, stud, mule, ass, mare, horned…
- § 337i Every person who knowingly transmits information as to the progress or results of a horserace, or information as to wagers, betting odds, changes in betting…
- § 337j (a) It is unlawful for any person, as owner, lessee, or employee, whether for hire or not, either solely or in conjunction with others, to do any of the…
- § 337k (a) It is unlawful for any person to advertise, or to facilitate the advertisement of, nonparimutuel wagering on horse races. (b) Violation of this section is…
- § 337o (a) It is unlawful for any person or entity to operate, conduct, or offer an online sweepstakes game in this state. (b) It is unlawful for any entity,…
- § 337s (a) This section applies only in counties with a population exceeding 4,000,000. (b) Every person who deals, plays, or carries on, opens, or causes to be…
- § 337t The following definitions govern the construction of this section and Sections 337u, 337w, 337x, and 337y: (a) “Associated equipment” means any equipment or…
- § 337u It is unlawful for any person to commit any of the following acts: (a) To alter or misrepresent the outcome of a gambling game or other event on which wagers…
- § 337v It is unlawful for any person at a gambling establishment to use, or to possess with the intent to use, any device to assist in any of the following: (a) In…
- § 337w (a) It is unlawful for any person to use counterfeit chips, counterfeit debit instruments, or other counterfeit wagering instruments in a gambling game, the…
- § 337x It is unlawful to cheat at any gambling game in a gambling establishment.
- § 337y It is unlawful to do either of the following: (a) Manufacture, sell, or distribute any cards, chips, dice, game, or device which is intended to be used to…
- § 337z (a) Any person who violates Section 337u, 337v, 337w, 337x, or 337y shall be punished as follows: (1) For the first violation, by imprisonment in a county jail…