California Penal Code CHAPTER 10 - Gaming

• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 or lease,...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 device,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 device...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 Section 330.1, including the...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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 with...
• Section 335.
  Every district attorney, sheriff, or police officer must inform against and diligently prosecute persons whom they have reasonable cause to believe offenders against the provisions...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 337e.
  Any person who as umpire, manager, director, referee, supervisor, judge, presiding officer or official receives or agrees to receive, or attempts to receive any money,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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,...
• Section 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 cattle,...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 an infraction...
• Section 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 opened, or...
• Section 337t.
  The following definitions govern the construction of this section and Sections 337u, 337w, 337x, and 337y:(a) “Associated equipment” means any equipment or mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 equipment associated...
• Section 337x.
  It is unlawful to cheat at any gambling game in a gambling establishment.(Added by Stats. 2002, Ch. 624, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2003.)
• Section 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...
• Section 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...

Last modified: October 22, 2018