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ORDIN,A_WCE NO. 528
AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO SLOT MACHINES, DEFININCT CRIMES, PRE-
SCRIBING PEI\LALTIES FOR' VIOLATION THEREOF AND DECLARING SLOT MACHINES
TO BE PUBLIC NUISANCES.
THE CI^1Y COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PASCO DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION ONE. Every Person, firm, association, or corporation,
whether or not organized for prof it, who shall bring into the City
of Pasco, buy, sell, lease, deal in, have in his or its possession,
acquire -Por the use in, or keep in any building, or part thereof,
owned, leased or occupied by him, them or it, any slot machine of
a kind commonly used for gambling, into which may be or might have
been inserted, any piece of money or other object, and from which
as a result of such insertion, and the application of physical or
mechanical force, may issue or might have issued, wholly upon any
chance, or uncertain or contingent event, any piece or pieces of
money, or any check or memorandum calling for any money or property,
or which check or memorandum is, after issuance, actually redeemed
in money, or exchanged in property, by any person whatsoever; or,
who shall aid or solicit any person to do the same, shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine s. not to exceed Three Hund-
red ($300.00) Dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed ninety days,
or by both such ffne or imprisonment.
SECTION TT�VO. This ordinance shall not apply to bona file exist-
ing Veterans' organizations, fraternal organizations and labor organ-
izations affiliated with a national organization.
SECTION
THREE. Every
slot machine which may
be found within the
City of Pasco
is hereby
declared, a public nuisance
and shall be con-
sidered and treated as such in all actions and proceedings whatever
and all remedies which are or may be given by law for the prevention
and abatement of nuisances shall apply thereto.
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SECTION FOUR. This ordinance shall take effect five (5) days after
its passage, approval and publication.
Passed and approved this/ qday of January, 1944.
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APPR OVED AS T 0 F ORM:
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