California Business and Professions Code 19962 – (a) The governing body or the electors of a city, county, or …
(a) The governing body or the electors of a city, county, or city and county that has not authorized legal gambling within its boundaries prior to January 1, 1996, shall not authorize legal gambling.
(b) (1) An ordinance in effect on January 1, 1996, that authorizes legal gambling within a city, county, or city and county shall not be amended to expand gambling in that jurisdiction beyond that permitted on January 1, 1996.
Terms Used In California Business and Professions Code 19962
- 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
- 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
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), an ordinance that was approved by a majority of the voters in a city, county, or city and county in an election that occurred after November 1, 2020, that authorizes an increase in the number of gambling tables at a gambling establishment, and that became operative on January 1, 2023, as the result of the repeal of former Section 19962, as amended by Chapter 1 of Section 744 of the Statutes of 2018, shall continue to be valid on and after January 1, 2024.
(3) Any amendment to an ordinance or adoption of an ordinance on or after January 1, 2023, by a city, county, or city and county resulting in an expansion of gambling that was not authorized or permitted under this chapter as of December 31, 2022, or that is not authorized or permitted under this section or Section 19961.07 shall be invalid and preempted.
(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2043, and as of that date is repealed.
(Added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 8, Sec. 2. (AB 341) Effective January 1, 2024. Repealed as of January 1, 2043, by its own provisions.)