10.36.020 HAZARDING FOR RETURN OF MERCHANDISE.

No person, either as owner, lessee, agent, employee, mortgagee, or otherwise, shall operate, keep, maintain, rent, use or conduct any machine, contrivance, appliance or mechanical device upon the result of the action of which money or other valuable things are staked, or hazarded, and which is operated, or played by placing or depositing therein, any coins, checks, slugs, balls or other articles or device or in any manner, and by means of the action thereof, or as a result of the operation of which, any merchandise, money, representative or article of value, check or token, redeemable in, or exchangeable for, money, or any other thing of value, is won, or lost, or taken from, or obtained from, such machine, when the result of the action or operation of such machine, contrivance, appliance, or mechanical device, is dependent upon hazard or chance.