§ 10-104 Suppression of gaming and other houses.
AC § 10-104
If any two or more householders shall report in writing, over their signatures, to the police commissioner or to a deputy police commissioner, that there are good grounds, stating the same, for believing any house, room or premises within the city to be kept or used as a common gambling-house, common gaming-room, or common gaming premises, for playing for wagers of money at any game of chance therein, or to be kept or used for lewd and obscene purposes or amusements, or the deposit or sale of lottery tickets or lottery policies, it shall be lawful for the police commissioner or either of the commissioner's deputies to authorize, in writing, any member or members of the force to enter the same who may forthwith arrest all persons there found offending against law, but none other; and seize all implements of gaming or lottery policies, and convey any person so arrested before a judge of the criminal court, and bring the articles so seized to the office of the property clerk. It shall be the duty of such police commissioner or deputy police commissioner to cause such arrested person to be rigorously prosecuted, and such articles seized to be destroyed, as the orders, rules and regulations of the commissioner shall direct.
