Ordinance - 715ORDINANCE NO. 715
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WEST COVINA AMENDING CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE
WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO PINBALL
AND OTHER MACHINES AND DEVICES.
The City Council of the City of West Covina does ordain as
• follows:
SECTION 1. That portion of Section 4117 of the West Covina
Municipal Code reading as follows: "For the purposes of this Section,
the following terms are defined as hereinafter set forth:" is hereby
amended to read as follows: "For the purposes of this -Chapter, the
following terms are defined as hereinafter set forth:".
SECTION 2. Sections 4117.1 and 4117.2 of the West Covina
Municipal Code are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. Sections 4118 and 4119 of the West Covina
Municipal Code are hereby amended to read respectively as follows:
114118. SAME. COIN OPERATED. PROHIBITED. EXCEPTIONS.
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, per-
mitted 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 con-
trivance for the playing of any game of chance, the use or opera-
tion of which is controlled, permitted or made available by
placing therein any coin, plug, disk, key, or token, or wh ich is
let for use, operation or play upon the payment or delivery of
anything of value therefor, or upon the making of any purchase.
The provisions of this Section shall not apply to the keep-
ing, 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 and 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.
4119. 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 pro-
visions of:
�aj Section 330a of the Penal Code of the State; or
bAny Section enumerated in Part I, Title 9, Chapter 9
of the Penal Code of the State; or
(c ) Section 4118;
is hereby declared to be a nuisance and shall be subject to
abatement as hereinafter provided in Section 4119.1."
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SECTION 4. The West Covina Municipal Code is hereby amended
by the addition thereto of a new Section 4119.1 reading as follows:
114119.1. DESTRUCTION OF ARTICLES BY THE CHIEF OF POLICE.
When any person has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to
any violation of any provisions of Section 41181 or of any law of
• this State, which offense involved the operation, use, maintenance
or possession of any article declared by Section 4119 hereof to
be a nuisance, then such article shall be destroyed by the Chief
of Police after the plea or after the judgment of conviction has
become final.
If any article subject to destruction as hereinabove pro-
vided is in the custody of any court, the Chief of Police shall
cause an application to be made to the judge of said court for
an order releasing such article to him in order that he may comply
with this Section.'
SECTION 5. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of
this ordinance and shall publish the same as required by law.
Passed and approved this 14th day of August , 1961.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS.
CITY OF WEST COVINA
I, ROBERT FLOTTEN, City Clerk of the City of West Covina,
do hereby certify that the above Ordinance No. 715 was regularly
introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the
City Council on the 24th day of July , 1961. That, thereafter,
said ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the
City Council on the �14th day of August , 19610 by the following
vote, to -wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Adams, Towner, Barnes, Snyder, Mayor Heath
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT:Councilmen: None
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City Clerk
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