44-464-Ordinance No. 82-40 Recorded 10/26/19824V
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44 BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON
An Ordinance Repealing Ordin- *
ance No. 203-4, In The Matter *
of An Ordinance Providing For * L~ E
the Regulation of Social
Games Within Unincorporated * T
Deschutes County, and Declar- 2 61982
ing an Emergency. * ROSE
DESCNUTSRY PArrERSON
ORDINANCE NO. 82-040 COUNTY CLERK
THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DESCHUTES COUNTY,
OREGON, ORDAINS as follows:
Section 1. That Ordinance No. 203-4, In The Matter of an
Ordinance Providing For the Regulation of Social Games Within
Unincorporated Areas of Deschutes County, is hereby repealed.
Section 2. This Ordinance being necessary for the immediate
preservation of public peace, health and safety, an emergency is
declared to exist, and this Ordinance takes effect on its passage.
DATED this .w day of ► 982•
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF D , S TES CfJUN ,
CLAY HEPARD, Ch irman
ATTEST:
S SAN STONEMAN
Recording Secretary
ALBERT A. YOUNG, Commissioner
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OBERT C. PAULSON, JR., Com io rfe r
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1 BOARD OF CONE1.1ISSIONERS
2 COUNTY OF DLSCHUTES
3 STATE OF OREGON
4 In the Matter of an Ordinance)
Providing for the Regulation ) COUNTY ORDINANCE
5 of Social Games within the )
Unincorporated Area of ) NO. 203-4
6 Deschutes. )
7 THE COUNTY OF DESCHUTES ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS:
8 Section I. PROHIBITIONS.
9 No person shall participate in, operate, or assist in
10 operating, any gambling game or activity, including a 1.ottery.
11 Section II. DEFINITIONS.
12 (a) The term "Card Room" shall mean any space, room or
13 enclosure used or intended to be used for playing cards.
14 (b) The term "Gambling" shall mean any contest, game,
15 gaming scheme or gaming device played for anything of value in uhi.c_h
16 the outcome depends in a material degree upon an element of chance,
17 nothwithstanding that skill of the contestants r2ay also be a factor
18 therein; except the term "Gambling" shall not include social games.
19 (c) The term "Social Games" means:
20 (1) A game other than a lottery between players in
21a private home where no house player, house bank or house odds exist
22 and there is no house income from the operation of the social game; and
23 (2) Games, other than lottery, involving the playing
24 of cards only between players in a private club or place of public
2=5accommodation where no house player, house bank or house odds exist,
26 zinc] there is no house income from the operation of the social game.
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1 Section III.
APPLICATION FOR LICENSE.
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2 (a) No person who owns, manages, or operates a private
3 business, private club, or place of public accommodation shall permit
4 a social game between players at a place where a card room is located
5-without first-securing a permit for such purpose from the Deschutes
6 County Board of Commissioners.
7 (b) The cost of a permit shall be $150.00 for premises containin-q
S 1 to 4 tables and for each additional table a fee of $75.00. The permit
9 fee shall be paid annually on or before January Tst and shall.not be pro-
.10-rated for any portion of the year.
11 Section IV. REGULATIONS.
12 It shall be unlawful to operate a card room in violation of any of
13 the following:
14 .(a) All card rooms shall be-open to police inspection during
15 all hours of operation. The permit must be displayed for public inspection
16 at all times.
17 (b) The playing.of all card games shall be so arranged as
18 to provide free access and visibility to any interested party. Doors
19 leading into the card room must remain unlocked during all hours of
20 operation.
21 (c) No person under the age of 21 shall be permitted to
22participate in any card game or to enter or remain upon such premises.
23 (d) No charge shall be collected from any player for the
24 privilege of participating in any game.
25 (e) No signs advertising gambling, playing of cards, or
'20 advertising specific forms of card playing, enticing participants or
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`i1'1 procuring players shall be permitted on or near the premises of the
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3 Section V. REVOCATION OF PERMIT.
4 (a) Any permit issued pursuant to the provisions of this
5 ordinance may be revoked upon violation of the provisions hereof.
6 (b) Prior to the revocation of permit, a hearing shall be
7 held by.the Board of County County Commissioners following ten days
8 written notice of proposed revocation to the holder of the permit
9 Section VI. PENALTY.
10 Violation of this ordinance is punishable; upon conviction;
11 by a fine of.not more than $1,000, or imprisonment in-the-County Jail
22 for a period not to exceed one hundred days; or both.
13 Section VIII. SEVERANCE CLAUSE.
14 If any section, sub-section, provision, clause or paragraph
15 of this ordinance shall be adjudged or declared by any Court of
16 competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional or invalid, such judgment
17 shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion of this
13 ordinance; and it is hereby expressly declared that every other
section, sub-section, provision, clause or paragraph of this ordinance
20 enacted; irrespective of the enactment or validity of the portion
21 hereof declared to be unconstitutional or invalid, is valid.
22 The foregoing ordinance
is
duly passed by
the Board of County
23 Commissioners on the
'
day
of
1975.
24
Approved
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