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Ordinance No. 597229 ORDINANCE NO. 597 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS AMENDING SECTIONS 15C -10 AND 17 -7 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS RELATING TO BINGO GAMES. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS HEREBY DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 15C -10 of the Code of the City of Cypress hereby is amended by changing subsection (j) thereof to read as follows: (j) No licensee shall conduct bingo games on more than one day per week, nor for more than eight hours per day; provided, however, that the Chief of Police may authorize a licensee to conduct bingo games on one extra day per week (up to a maximum of twelve such extra days during any calendar year), if the Chief of Police determines that the conducting of bingo games on such extra days will not adversely affect the health, safety and general welfare of persons residing in the vicinity of the premises on which the games will be conducted. SECTION 2. Section 17 -7 of the Code of the City of Cypress hereby is amended to read as follows: Sec. 17 -7. Same - Bingo, Keno, etc. Except as specifically allowed pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 15C of this Code, no person, either as owner, lessee, manager, employee, agent or servant, shall conduct, manage, carry on, maintain, operate, open, deal or deal in or to cause or permit to be conducted, managed, carried on, maintained, operated, opened, dealt or dealt in any game, operation or transaction wherein any prize, gift, rebate, compensation, reward, award, payment or gratuity, consisting of any money, check, token, credit, goods, wares, merchandise, property or thing of value, is or is to be given, awarded or delivered, either directly or indirectly, and wherein chance is a determining factor or is any determining factor of the result of such game, operation or transaction which game, operation or transaction is conducted, carried on, maintained, operated or played by the throwing, tossing, dripping, depositing or placing of any ball, marker, object, thing or substance into any perforation, hole or indentation in or upon any surface, receptable, container, object or thing having marked designated or identified thereon by or with any figure, number, character, symbol, letter, design or mark of any kind, or by the selecting, designating, turning, indicating, choosing or projecting of any such figure, number, character, symbol, letter, design or mark by means of any device, apparatus or equipment, or by any means or in any manner, or by the drawing, selecting, choosing or removing from any receptacle or container of any ball, disk, object, substance or material, marked, designated or identified by or with any figure, number, character, symbol, letter, design or mark, any such figure, number, character, symbol, letter design or mark hereinabove referred to, corresponding to, duplicating, referring to or relating to, in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, any figure, number, character, symbol, letter, design or mark upon any card, paper, board, fabric, surface, object, substance or thing, held, used, operated or maintained by any player or participant therein or by any person, where, by any predetermined or pre- arranged or any other rule, method, scheme, design or procedure any person is found, declared or determined to be, or is, or is to be, the winner, donee, recipient, or taker of such prize, gift, rebate, compensation, reward, award, payment or gratuity in the event that any such player or participant pays, deposits, expends, gives or pledges, either directly or indirectly, or agrees, promises or intends to pay, deposit, expend, give or pledge, either directly or indirectly, any money, check, credit, property or thing of value, or makes or agrees to make any purchases for the privilege of paying or participating therein or of gaining admission to the place or premises where such game, operation or transaction is or is to be played, conducted, carried on, maintained or operated or to any other place or premises. No provision of this section shall be deemed or construed as prohibiting any act made unlawful by the provisions of sections 320, 321, 330 and 330a of the Penal Code of the state, or of any other section of such Code or general law of the state. It is the intent of the City to prohibit by this section all games, operations or transactions herein described, not pro- hibited by the provisions of any general law of this state, including all games, operations or transactions for profit, commonly known as keno, tango, movie tango, beano, skill ball, fortune, quintain, fascination or inspiration, and all games, operations or transactions similar thereto under whatever name they may be designated. No person shall participate in, play, play in or engage in, either directly or indirectly, any game, operation or trans- action prohibited by the provisions of this section. No person, owning, leasing, managing, controlling or having any interest in any property or premises within the City, shall cause or permit the maintenance or operation in or on such property or premises, having knowledge of or after reasonable notice of the existence of any game, operation or transaction therein, prohibited by this section. SECTION 3. Severability. If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this ordinance, or the appli- cation thereof to any person or place, is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance or its application to other persons or places. The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance, and each section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions, or the application thereof to any person or place, be declared invalid or unconstitutional. FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the City Council of said City held on the 28th day of March 1977, and finally adopted and ordered posted at a regular meeting of said Council held on the llth day of April 1977. ATTEST: MAYOR OF T CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS CITY OF CYPRESS I, DARRELL ESSEX, City Clerk of the City of Cypress, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was duly adopted at a regular meeting of the said City Council held on the llth day of April 1977; by the following roll call vote: AYES: 4 COUNCILMEN: Harvey, Lacayo, MacLain and Hudson NOES: 0 COUNCILMEN: None ABSENT: 1 COUNCILMEN: Sonju CITY CLERK OF THE ITY OF CYPRESS - 2 -