Article XVIII. Casinos – Certain Gambling Games – Bingo
5.08.820 Definitions.
For the purpose of this article, the words and phrases hereinafter set forth shall have the following meanings ascribed to them unless the context clearly requires to the contrary:
(1) “Commence” shall mean and include commence, begin, initiate, start, open and establish.
(2) “Conduct” shall mean and include conduct, transact, maintain, prosecute, practice, manage, operate and carry on.
(3) “Employee” shall mean every person, either an agent, employee, or otherwise, of the owner, as owner, or under the direction of the owner of any casino.
(4) “Owner” shall mean every person, firm, association, partnership, corporation, or other entity having any interest, legal or equitable, in any casino or casino license.
(5) “Person” shall mean and include a natural person, or any other legal entity which owns any interest in or proposes to own any interest in, operates or proposes to operate a casino in the city. In addition, “person” shall have the meaning set forth in Business and Professions Code Sections 19082(c) and (e) as those sections appear in Chapter 387 of the Statutes of 1995 and as those sections may hereafter be amended.
(6) “Pointholder” shall mean any person, having any interest whatsoever, or at all, in the ownership in a casino, whether legal, equitable, or of whatsoever kind or character. However, third-party proposition player provider services (also referred to as “banking groups”) are exempt from being considered pointholders.
(7) “Purport to commence” and “purport to conduct” shall mean and include any showing, representation, indication or action which:
(a) By means of sign, advertisement, or advertising matter, whether in, upon or about any premises or otherwise, or
(b) By the appearance or arrangement of any premises, or
(c) By acts or statements of any person, or of the agents, servants, or employees of any person;
indicates, suggests, holds out, or represents that any person is, would be, or appears to be conducting or in a position to conduct any business referred to in this article within the city.
(8) “Gambling game” or “gambling games” shall mean any game conducted, dealt or carried on with cards, dice, dominos or devices, for money, checks, chips, credit or any representative of value if chance is any determining factor in the result of the game.
(9) “License” shall mean a license or permit for the playing of any gambling game.
(10) “Licensee” shall mean the person authorized to conduct a business hereunder.
(11) “Casino” shall mean a business or enterprise licensed under the provisions of this article for the playing of any gambling game.
(12) “Game room” shall only mean that portion of a casino where gambling games are conducted and does not include portions of a casino where gambling games are not conducted.
(13) “Third-party proposition player services” or “proposition player services” means services provided in and to the house under any written, oral, or implied agreement with the casino, which services include play as a participant in any controlled game that has a rotating player-dealer position as permitted by Penal Code Section 330.11. (Ord. 691 § 1, 2018; Ord. 588 § 1, 2003; Ord. 507 §§ 2, 3; Ord. 505 § 3. 2002 Code § 6-32.1).