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Ordinances enacted through January 13, 2009

Copyrighted by SANTA CLARA COUNTY CODE & Municipal Code Corporation, 1998.

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Sec. B3-64. Confiscation of machine.

(a) In addition to the penalty provided by this Code, any pinball or marble machine may be seized by any law enforcement officer of the State, and notice of intention summarily to destroy such machine must thereupon be posted in a conspicuous place upon the premises in or upon which such machine was seized. Such machine shall be held by such officer for 30 days after such posting, and if no action is commenced to recover possession of such machine within such time, the same shall be summarily destroyed by such officer; or if such machine is held by the court in any civil or criminal action to have been used in violation of this article, the same shall be destroyed by such officer immediately after the decision of the court has become final.

(b) Any and all money seized in or in connection with such machine immediately after such machine has been seized, is to be paid into the treasury of the County, and upon said machine being destroyed in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this chapter, is to be credited to the general fund; otherwise to be returned to the person who was in possession of said machine when it was seized.

(Code 1954, § 6.3.2-3)

State law reference(s)--Seizure of devices, Penal Code § 335a.

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