California Business and Professions Code 19960 – This chapter shall not prohibit the enactment, amendment, or …
This chapter shall not prohibit the enactment, amendment, or enforcement of any ordinance by any city, county, or city and county relating to licensed gambling establishments that is not inconsistent with this chapter. No city, county, or city and county shall issue a gambling license with respect to any gambling establishment unless one of the following is true:
(a) The gambling establishment is located in a city, county, or city and county wherein, after January 1, 1984, an ordinance was adopted by the electors of the city, county, or city and county, in an election conducted pursuant to former § 19819 of the Business and Professions Code, as that section read immediately before its repeal by the act that enacted this chapter.
Terms Used In California Business and Professions Code 19960
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- City: includes city and county. See California Business and Professions Code 18
- Controlled gambling: means to deal, operate, carry on, conduct, maintain, or expose for play any controlled game. See California Business and Professions Code 19805
- County: includes city and county. See California Business and Professions Code 17
- Gambling: means to deal, operate, carry on, conduct, maintain, or expose for play a controlled game. See California Business and Professions Code 19805
- Hours of operation: means the period during which a gambling establishment is open to conduct the play of controlled games within a 24-hour period. See California Business and Professions Code 19805
- License: means a gambling license, key employee license, or any other license issued by the commission pursuant to this chapter or regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter. See California Business and Professions Code 19805
- Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs, unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Business and Professions Code 15
(b) The gambling establishment is located in a city, county, or city and county wherein, prior to January 1, 1984, there was in effect an ordinance that expressly authorized the operation of one or more cardrooms.
(c) After the effective date of this chapter, a majority of the electors voting thereon affirmatively approve a measure permitting controlled gambling within that city, county, or city and county.
(1) The measure to permit controlled gambling shall appear on the ballot in substantially the following form:
“Shall licensed gambling establishments in which any controlled games permitted by law, such as draw poker, low-ball poker, panguine (pan), seven-card stud, or other lawful card games or tile games, are played, be allowed in _____? Yes ____ No ____.”
(2) In addition, the initial implementing ordinances shall be drafted and appear in full on the sample ballot and shall set forth at least all of the following:
(A) The hours of operation.
(B) The games to be played.
(C) The wagering limits.
(D) The maximum number of gambling establishments permitted by the ordinance.
(E) The maximum number of tables permitted in each gambling establishment.
(d) The authorization of subdivision (c) is subject to Sections 19962 and 19963 until those sections are repealed.
(Added by renumbering Section 19950 by Stats. 2002, Ch. 738, Sec. 110. Effective January 1, 2003.)