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ORDINANCE NO. 5461
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM ADDING
SECTION 7.34.300 TO CHAPTER 7.34 OF TITLE
7 OF THE ANAHEIM MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO
BINGO GAMES
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM HEREBY ORDAINS
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
That new Section 7.34.300 be, and the same is hereby,
added to Chapter 7.34 of Title 7 of the Anaheim Municipal Code to
read as follows:
"7.34.300 EXEMPTIONS FOR CERTAIN GAMES CONDUCTED
BY SENIOR CITIZENS ORGANIZATIONS.
Nothwithstanding any other provision of
this Chapter to the contrary, the provisions of Sections
7.34.050, 7.34.130, 7.34.150, 7.34.155, 7.34.165 and 7.34.170 of
this Code shall not apply to any game conducted by a senior
citizens organization wherein:
.010 The total value of the prizes
awarded in any such game shall exactly equal the total
amount collected from all players for the privilege of
participating in such game (or the total amount
collected from all players for participation in a
series of games divided by the number of games in
such series) and, further, such total amount shall not
exceed Ten Dollars; and
.020 Not more than ten such games are
conducted on any day; and
.030 Such games are not conducted by the
senior citizens organization on more than one day
during any seven-day period; and
.040 Such games are conducted only upon
the property authorized for use by the senior citizens
organization as specified on the bingo license.
.050 Such games are conducted and
staffed solely by unpaid members of the senior citizens
organization."
SECTION 2. SEVERABILITY
The City Council of the City of Anaheim hereby declares
that should any section, paragraph, sentence or word of this
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ordinance of the Code, hereby adopted, be declared for any reason
to be invalid, it is the intent of the Council that it would have
passed all other portions of this ordinance independent of the
elimination herefrom of any such portion as may be declared
invalid.
SECTION 3. SAVINGS CLAUSE
Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor the repeal
of any other ordinance of this City shall in any manner affect
the prosecution for violations of ordinances, which violations
were committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be
construed as a waiver of any license or penalty or the penal
provisions applicable to any violation thereof. The provisions
of this ordinance, insofar as they are substantially the same as
ordinance provisions previously adopted by the City relating to
the same subject matter, shall be construed as restatements and
continuations, and not as new enactments.
SECTION 4. PENALTY
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation to violate any provision or to fail to comply with
any of the requirements of this ordinance. Any person, firm or
corporation violating any provision of this ordinance or failing
to comply with any of its requirements shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a
fine not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1000.00) or by
imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine
and imprisonment. Each such person, firm or corporation shall be
deemed guilty of a separate offense for each day during any
portion of which any violation of any of the provisions of this
ordinance is committed, continued or permitted by such person,
firm or corporation, and shall be punishable therefor as provided
for in this ordinance.
THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE is approved and adopted by the
City Council of the City of Anaheim this 15th day of
November , 1994.
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MAYOR OF THE CITY OF ANA IM
A ZEST
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY ANAHEI
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM )
I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance
No. 5461 was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Anaheim, held on the 8th
day of November, 1994, and that the same was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of said City
Council held on the 15th day of November, 1994, by the following vote of the members thereof:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Feldhaus, Simpson, Pickier, Daly
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Hunter
AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim signed said Ordinance No. 5461 on the
16th day of November, 1994.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Anaheim
this 16th day of November, 1994.
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
(SEAL)
I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing is the original
of Ordinance No. 5461 and was published once in the North Orange County News on the 24th day of
November, 1994.
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM