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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19940
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19940
Any person included on the list of persons to be excluded or ejected from a gambling establishment pursuant to this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor if he or she thereafter knowingly enters the premises of a licensed gambling establishment.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19941
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19941
(a) A person under 21 years of age shall not do any of the following: (1) Play, be allowed to play, place wagers at, or collect winnings from, whether personally or through an agent, a gambling game. (2) Be employed as an employee in a licensed gambling establishment, except as p
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19942
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19942
(a) Any person who willfully fails to report, pay, or truthfully account for and pay over any license fee imposed by this chapter, or who willfully attempts in any manner to evade or defeat the license fee or payment thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail, by
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19943
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19943
(a) Except as specified in subdivision (c), this section applies to any person or business that is engaged in controlled gambling, whether or not licensed to do so. (b) Any person or business described in subdivision (a), with actual knowledge of the requirements of regulations a
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19943.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19943.5
If a gambling enterprise conducts play of a controlled game that has been approved by the department pursuant to Section 19826, and the controlled game is subsequently found to be unlawful, so long as the game was played in the manner approved, the approval by the department shal
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19944
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19944
Any person who willfully resists, prevents, impedes, or interferes with the department or the commission or any of their agents or employees in the performance of duties pursuant to this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19950
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19950
(a) All fines and penalties collected pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited in a special account in the General Fund, and, upon appropriation, may be expended by the Department of Justice to offset costs incurred pursuant to this chapter. (b) Except as otherwise provided in
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19951
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19951
(a) Every application for a license or approval shall be accompanied by a fee as determined by the commission and adopted by regulation. The adopted fee shall not exceed one thousand two hundred dollars ($1,200). (b) (1) Any fee paid pursuant to this section, including all licens
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19952
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19952
The commission, by regulation, shall establish fees for special licenses authorizing irregular operation of tables in excess of the total number of tables otherwise authorized to a licensed gambling establishment, for tournaments and other special events.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19953
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19953
Nothing contained in this chapter shall be deemed to restrict or limit the power of any city, county, or city and county to fix, impose, and collect a license tax.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19954
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19954
In addition to those fees required pursuant to Section 19951, each licensee shall pay an additional one hundred dollars ($100) for each table for which it is licensed to the State Department of Public Health for deposit in the Gambling Addiction Program Fund, which is hereby esta
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19955
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19955
If an owner licensee fails to make timely payment of annual fees required under subparagraph (B) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 19951, the commission may order the temporary closure of the gambling establishment for up to 90 days after the payment due date, after
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19960
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 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 li
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19961
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19961
(a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), on or after the effective date of this chapter, any amendment to any ordinance that would result in an expansion of gambling in the city, county, or city and county, shall not be valid unless the amendment is submitted for approval to
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19961.05
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19961.05
Notwithstanding Sections 19961 and 19962, a city, county, or city and county may amend its ordinance to increase the operating hours of a gambling establishment to up to 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19961.06
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19961.06
(a) Notwithstanding Sections 19961 and 19962, a city, county, or city and county may amend an ordinance to increase by two the number of gambling tables that may be operated in a gambling establishment in the city, county, or city and county, above the number of tables authorized
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19961.07
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19961.07
(a) Notwithstanding Sections 19961 and 19962, and except as provided in subdivision (b), a city, county, or city and county may amend an ordinance to increase the number of gambling tables that may be operated in a gambling establishment as follows: (1) The ordinance shall apply
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19961.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19961.1
Any amendment to a city or county ordinance relating to gambling establishments, or the Gambling Control Act, shall be submitted to the department for review and comment, before the ordinance is adopted by the city or county.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19962
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19962
(a) The governing body or the electors of a city, county, or city and county that has not authorized legal gambling within its boundaries prior to January 1, 1996, shall not authorize legal gambling. (b) (1) An ordinance in effect on January 1, 1996, that authorizes legal gamblin
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19963
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19963
(a) In addition to any other limitation on the expansion of gambling imposed by Section 19962 or any provision in this chapter, the commission shall not issue a gambling license for a gambling establishment that was not licensed to operate on December 31, 1999, unless an applicat
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19964
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19964
No city, county, or city and county may grant, or permit to continue in effect, a license to deal, operate, carry on, conduct, maintain, or expose for play any controlled game to any applicant or holder of a local license unless the applicant or local licensee is an owner license
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19965
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19965
Notwithstanding Sections 19961 and 19962, a city, county, or city and county may amend an ordinance to increase the number of gambling tables that may be operated in a gambling establishment as follows: (a) If the ordinance in effect on July 1, 2007, provided for five to eight ta
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19966
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19966
If a gambling establishment is located in an unincorporated area annexed by a city, notwithstanding Section 19960 or 19962, without a local election other than the election to approve the annexation, the city acquiring jurisdiction may adopt an ordinance permitting and regulating
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19970
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19970
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this chapter, for any reason, is adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, that judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of this chapter and the application thereof to other persons or circums
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19971
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 19971
This act is an exercise of the police power of the state for the protection of the health, safety, and welfare of the people of the State of California, and shall be liberally construed to effectuate those purposes.