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24 of 1912 - Prohibiting gambling ROLL CALL • Salt-Lake City, Utah,._ Feb:.19. 191_2.. VOTING Yea I move that the attached ord nonce .p. s Keyser err of Public ga-YrTf Korns .. Lawrence 41/:/, 141orris .. �..... / Mr.Chairman AN ORDINANCE . An ordinance to prohibit gambling or gating of every kind, betting, wagering, or staking money or thing of value on the resul, of horse races or oontests of skill or endurance of men or animals by means of book-making, pools, turf exchanges or like schemes of devices. Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake Cit , Utah: SECTION 1. All gambling and gaming of every kind and descrip tion, by playing at cards, dice, faro, roulette, keno, poker, slot machines, devices known as trades maohines, or any like machines or devices by whatever name known, or any other contrivance or de- vice by or with which money, merchandise or any thing of value may be staked, bet, hazarded, won or lost, upon chance, or at any othe• game or scheme of chance whatever, and by betting on the result of horse races, or on the result of any contest of skill or endurance of men or animals by means of book making, pools, turf exchanges or other devices, for money or other property or thing of value within Salt Lake City, is hereby declared to be unlawful. SECTION 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to play, stair: , wager, or bet any money, property or thing of ♦alue at any game, scheme or device by this ordinance prohibited, or to own, conduct, keep or carry on any such game, scheme or device, either as owner, dealer, operator, agent or employee. SECTION 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to bet or wag.r money or any thing of value on the result of any horse race or races, or on the result of any contest of skill or endurance of me• or animals by means of book making, pools or other devices, in any place commonly known as a turf exchange, or where pool selling or book making for the purpose of enabling bets and wagers for money or things of value on such races or contests to be made, had or received, is conducted and carried on. SECTION 4. It shall be unlawful for any person to conduct; -2- keep or maintain a house, building, room or other plane where any of the games or aachemes herein prohibited are carried on, conduct or operated. It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly per mit or suffer any of the games or schemes herein declared unlawful to be carried on, or kept, maintained or operated in any house, building, room or other place owned by him in whole or in part,or by him let or leased to any other person. SECTION 6. It shall be unlawful for any person to conduct, keep, carry on, or maintain, by himself or his agents or employees any turf exohange, pool room, or other place, by whatever name known, where bets or wagers on the result of any horse race, when. ever run, or of any contest of skill or endurance of men or animal , wherever made or had, are, or may be made, received or paid. SECTION 6. It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or maintain any slot machine, or trades machine, or any like machine or device, for the purpose of suffering or permitting other person to play at or with the same for money or anything of value. SECTION 7. It shall be unlawful for any person, either as owner, lessee, agent, employee, mortgagee or otherwise, to operate, keep, maintain, rent, use or conduct, within the City of Salt Lake, any clock, tape, slot, trades or card machine, or any other machin-, contrivance or device upon which money is staked or hazarded chance, or into which money is paid, deposited or played upon Chance, or upon the result of the action of which money,or 8nyAtem ' modity or merchandise, or any other article or tking of value is staked, bet, hazarded, won or lost upon chance. SECTION 8. It shall be unlawful for ani pe}eon, either as owner, lessee, agent, employee, mortgagee or otherwise, to operate, keep, maintain, rent, use or conduct within the City of Salt Lake, any machine, contrivance, appliance or mechanical device,upon the result of the action of which money or any commodity, merchandise or other valuable thing is staked, or hazarded, and which is oper- ated or played by placing or depositing therein any coins, auk ti- -3- tutes for coins, checks, slugs, balls, or other article or device, or in any other manner, and by means of the action whereof, or as result of the operation of which, any merchandise, money, represen,a- Li tive or article of value, cheok, or token redeemable in, or exchan;e- able for money, or any other thing of value is won or lost, or tak:n i from or obtained from such machine, when the result of the action or operation of such machine, oontrivence, appliance, or meohanioa device, is dependent upon hazard or ohana.. SECTION 9. Any person violating any of the provisions of thi: ordinance, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not mor= than $50.00, or by imprisonment in the city jail for not more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The word "person", as employed in this ordinance, shall be deemed to include co-partnership, corporation or association of persons. ; - SECTION 10. No person shall be excused from attending and testifying, or from producing books, papers and documents before any court having jurisdiction of the offenses herein defined, upon the ground, or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, doc- umentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture. But no person shall be • prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture on account of any prosecution, matter or thing ooncerning which he may produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, before any court as aforesaid. SECTION 11. All ordinances and resolutions, or parts of ordi- nanoes and resolutions in conflict with this ordinance, are hereby repealed; provided, however, that all offenses included in this ordinance, which are defined in prior ordinances, and which have J. been committed prior to the taking effect of this ordinance, shall be prosecuted and punished as in such prior ordinances provided. SECTION 12. This ordinance shell take effect on and after Via k..0 I i 1C -' ,, `� -4- Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah, this day of February, 1912. Il C y eoor er. a y o r . . ,.:•-.. ... I'J ,,:,•':',' •-• i A'' -I-r 1 C,' '',0 ,a-regoteetuustof:, lo iil ..,',E, 0;it vf i--.Ele -1-. f ,,,TPrirrdn . "",.o v ,L —_ — 1I • . , , • , 1 Ilti . 1 , at . . . ... .. .„ , . . 1 '6 . . . , I 1;7 1 • . , 4\ .