California Business and Professions Code

§ 19960

BPC § 19960 Effective Jan 1, 2003Div. 8 · Ch. 5 · Art. 13

Statute text

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.

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Legislative history

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