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ORDINANCE NO. 89- 34
(Cardroom Operations, Amendment)
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa ordains as follows
(omitting the parenthetical footnotes from the official text of the enacted or
amended provisions of the County Ordinance Code):
SECTION I: Section 52-3.505 is amended by amending subsection (f) to permit
24 hour cardroom operation and by adding subsection (g) to require cardroom
licensees to provide to the Sheriff, and keep up to date, a complete list of
all cardroom work permittees employed by them, to read:
52-3.505 Operations. (a) Deposit Winnings. The licensee shall have a
check promptly issued to any player so requesting in exchange for his
winnings, but the player may instead require the licensee to safely keep the
player's winnings for him for an agreed reasonable time.
(b) Table Stakes. Only table stakes shall be allowed.
(c) Licensee Responsible. The licensee is responsible that the
operation and playing are strictly in accordance with state law and this
chapter.
(d) Name Badges. Every person who has or should have a work
permit or a cardroom license shall , while at the card tables, always wear at
about chest height on the outermost garment an identification badge issued by
the sheriff, always plainly readable and in good condition.
(e) Signs. The licensee shall post one or more signs, plainly
visible throughout the cardroom, stating as many of the regulations of this
chapter as the sheriff may require.
(f) Every cardroom must be open to official inspection at all
times for purposes of enforcing this chapter.
(g) Every cardroom licensee shall , within 72 hours of the
effective date of this ordinance file with the Sheriff a written list stating
the name and cardroom work permit number of every cardroom employee employed
at each licensed premises. Within 72 hours from'the time a cardroom employee
is thereafter employed or terminated, the licensee shall notify the Sheriff in
writing of the name and cardroom work permit number of each such employed or
terminated cardroom employee, at each licensed premises. (Ords. 89-34_, 82-
44, 1506, 1548: § 52-2.415 in part: prior code § 5313. )
SECTION II. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance becomes effective 30 days after
passage, and within 15 days of passage shall be published once with the names
of the supervisors voting for and against it in the
Martinez News Gazette a newspaper published in this County.
PASSED ON June 6, 1989 by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors Powers, Fanden, Schroder, McPeak, TOrlakson.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None.
ATTEST: PHIL BATCHELOR, Clerk
of the Board of Supervisors and
County Administrator
By: �-• G'�1�
Board Chair
[SEAL]
AWW:da
(May 22, 1989)
ORDINANCE NO. 89- 34