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2020 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 8 - SPECIAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS
CHAPTER 5 - The Gambling Control Act
ARTICLE 13 - Local Governments
Section 19960.

Universal Citation: CA Bus & Prof Code § 19960 (2020)
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19960.  

This chapter shall not prohibit the enactment, amendment, or enforcement of any ordinance by any city, county, or city and county relating to licensed gambling establishments that is not inconsistent with this chapter. No city, county, or city and county shall issue a gambling license with respect to any gambling establishment unless one of the following is true:

(a) The gambling establishment is located in a city, county, or city and county wherein, after January 1, 1984, an ordinance was adopted by the electors of the city, county, or city and county, in an election conducted pursuant to former Section 19819 of the Business and Professions Code, as that section read immediately before its repeal by the act that enacted this chapter.

(b) The gambling establishment is located in a city, county, or city and county wherein, prior to January 1, 1984, there was in effect an ordinance that expressly authorized the operation of one or more cardrooms.

(c) After the effective date of this chapter, a majority of the electors voting thereon affirmatively approve a measure permitting controlled gambling within that city, county, or city and county.

(1) The measure to permit controlled gambling shall appear on the ballot in substantially the following form:
“Shall licensed gambling establishments in which any controlled games permitted by law, such as draw poker, low-ball poker, panguine (pan), seven-card stud, or other lawful card games or tile games, are played, be allowed in _____? Yes ____ No ____.”

(2) In addition, the initial implementing ordinances shall be drafted and appear in full on the sample ballot and shall set forth at least all of the following:

(A) The hours of operation.

(B) The games to be played.

(C) The wagering limits.

(D) The maximum number of gambling establishments permitted by the ordinance.

(E) The maximum number of tables permitted in each gambling establishment.

(d) The authorization of subdivision (c) is subject to Sections 19962 and 19963 until those sections are repealed.

(Added by renumbering Section 19950 by Stats. 2002, Ch. 738, Sec. 110. Effective January 1, 2003.)

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