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ORDINANCE NO. 111
<br />AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS PROHIBITING THE POSSES-
<br />SION, USE, OR OPERATION OF ANY CLAW MACHINE, PINBALL MACHINE OR
<br />MARBLE MACHINE AS DEFINED THEREIN WITHIN THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS ?TILLS,
<br />CALIFORNIA, AND PRESCRIBING PENALTIES.
<br />THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF IAS ALTOS HILLS DOES OR-
<br />DAIN AS FOLLOWS:
<br />SECTION 1: USE, OPERATION AND POSSESSION
<br />Every person who either as owner, lessee, agent, employee,
<br />mortgagor, or otherwise, owns, keeps, possesses, controls, sells,
<br />rents, leases, lends or gives away, transports or exposes for sale
<br />or lease or offers to sell, rent, lease, lend or give away or who
<br />permits the operation of or permits to be placed, maintained, used
<br />or kept in any room, space, enclosure, or building owned, leased or
<br />occupied by him or under his management or control, whether for use
<br />or operation or for storage, bailment, safekeeping or deposit only,
<br />any claw machine, pinball or marble machine or device as hereinafter
<br />defined, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
<br />SECTION 2: PINBALL M CHINE DESCRIBED
<br />The pinball machine or marlLe machine, contrivance, appli-
<br />ance or mechanical device, the use or operation or possession of
<br />which machine is prohibited by Section 1 hereof, is usually, but
<br />not exclusively, described as consisting of a table on legs, the
<br />table being in the shape of a box with the upper side covered by
<br />glass. Inside the box is a surface studded with pins, plugs, buffers,
<br />springs and holes and when a ball is released by a plunger upon this
<br />surface the ball wends its way from the top to the bottom and durimg
<br />its journey may fall into one of the numerous holes, or in its course
<br />along the surface of said table may hit many of the springs; pins; or
<br />plugs, thereby and by means of electrical or other recordings, giving
<br />to the player a score, or other indication of the result of play.
<br />The description of the pinball machine or marble machine
<br />or other contrivance, appliance, or mechanical device given in this
<br />Section does not in any way limit the penal provisions of Section 1
<br />hereof, and is not to be construed as making legal any pinball mach-
<br />ine or marble machine or other contrivance, appliance or mechanical
<br />device which is prohibited by the general terms of Section 1 hereof,
<br />but may not be specifically described in this Section 2.
<br />SECTION 3: Confiscation of Machines and Monies Therein.
<br />In addition to any other remedy provided by law any claw
<br />machine, pinball or marble machine, appliance or mechanical device,
<br />as defined in this ordinance, may be seized by any peace officer,
<br />and a notice of intention summarily to destroy such machine or de-
<br />vice must thereupon be posted in a conspicuous place upon the pre-
<br />mises in or upon which such machine or device was seized. Such
<br />machine or device shall be held by the officer for thirty (30) days
<br />after such posting, and if no action is commenced to recover posses-
<br />sion of such machine or device within the thirty (30) days, and no
<br />notice of the commencement of such an action is served on the officer,
<br />or his superior, the machine or device shall be summarily destroyed
<br />by such officer, or if such machine or device is held by the court,
<br />in any civil or criminal action, to be in violation of this ordinance
<br />the same shall be summarily destroyed by such officer, immediately
<br />after the decision of the court has become final. Any and all money
<br />seized in or in connection with such machine or device, immediately
<br />after such machine or device has been so destroyed, is to be paid
<br />into the office of the Clerk of the Town of Los Altos Hills to the
<br />credit of the General Fund.
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