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for a violation of section three hundred and thirty of the Penal Code; or who shall issue, deliver, or cause to be given or delivered to any person or persons, any license, permit, or other privilege, giving, or pretending to give, any authority or right to any person or persons to carry on, conduct, open, or cause to be opened, any game or games which are forbidden or prohibited by section three hundred and thirty of said code; and any of such officer or officers who shall vote for the passage of any ordinance or by-law, giving, granting, or pretending to give or grant to any person of persons any authority or privilege to open, carry on, conduct, or cause to be opened, carried on, or conducted, any game or games prohibited by said section three hundred and thirty of the Penal Code, is guilty of a felony. 1885-113.

337a. Every person,

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Who engages in pool-selling or book-making, with or without writing, at any time or place; or

2. Who, whether for gain, hire, reward, or gratuitously, or otherwise, keeps or occupies, for any period of time whatsoever, any room, shed, tenement, tent, booth, building, float, vessel, place, stand or encloseure, of any kind, or any part thereof, with a book or books, paper or papers, apparatus, device or paraphernalia, for the purpose of recording or registering any bet or bets, or any purported bet or bets, or wager or wagers, or any purported wager or wagers, or of selling pools, or purported pools, upon the result, or purported result, of any trial, or purported trial, or contest, or purported contest, of skill, speed or power of endurance of man or beast, or between men, beasts, or mechanical apparatus, or upon the result, or purported result, of any lot, chance, casualty, unknown or contingent event whatsoever; or

3. Who, whether for gain, hire, reward, or gratuitously, or otherwise, receives, holds, or forwards, or purports or pretends to receive, hold, or forward, in any manner whatsoever, any money, thing or consideration of value, or the equivalent or memorandum thereof, staked, pledged, bet or wagered, or to be staked, pledged, bet or wagered, or offered for the purpose of being staked, pledged, bet or wagered, upon the result, or purported result, of any trial, or purported trial, or contest, or purported contest, of skill, speed or power of endurance of man or beast, or between men, beasts, or mechanical apparatus, or upon the result, or purported result, of any lot, chance, casualty, unknown or contingent event whatsoever; or

4. Who, whether for gain, hire, reward, or gratuitously, or otherwise, at any time or place, records, or registers any bet or bets, wager or wagers, upon the result, or purported result, of any trial, or purported trial, or contest, or purported contest, of skill, speed or power of endurance of man or beast, or between men, beasts, or mechanical apparatus, or upon the result, or purported result, of any lot, chance, casualty, unknown or contingent event whatsoever; or

5. Who, being the owner, lessee or occupant of any room, shed, tenement, tent, booth, building, float, vessel, place, stand, enclosure or grounds, or any part thereof, whether for gain, hire, reward, or grantuitously, or otherwise, permits the same to be used or occupied for any purpose, or in any manner prohibited by subdivisions one, two, three, or four of this section; or

6. Who lays, makes, offers or accepts any bet or bets, or wager or wagers, upon the result, or purported result, or any trial, or purported trial, or contest, or purported contest, of skill, speed or power of endurance of man or beast, or between men, beast, or mechanical apparatus, is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail or state prison for a period of not less than thirty days and not exceeding one year.

This section shall apply not only to persons who may commit any of the acts designated in subdivisions one to six inclusive of this section, as a business or occupation, but shall also apply to every person or persons who may do in a single instance any one of the acts specified in said subdivisions one to six inclusive. 1911-4.

337b. Any person who gives, offers or promises to give or attempts to give or offer, any money, bribe or thing of value, to any participant or player in any baseball game, with the intention or understanding or agreement that such participant or player shall not use his best efforts to win such baseball game, or so conduct himself in such baseball game that the opposing team shall thereby be assisted or enabled to win such game, is guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period not exceeding five years, or by a fine not exceding five thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 1921—62.

337c. Any person who accepts, or attempts to accept, or offers to accept, or agrees to accept, any money, bribe or thing of value, with the intention or understanding or agreement that he will not use his best efforts to win any baseball game in which he is participating or is about to participate in, or to so conduct himself in such baseball game that the opposing team shall thereby be assisted or enabled to win such game, is guilty of a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a period not exceeding five years, or by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 1921—62.

337d. Any person who gives, or offers to give, or promises to give, or attempts to give, any money, bribe or thing of value to any person who is umpiring, managing or directing, or who is about to umpire, or manage or direct any baseball game, with the intention or agreement or understanding that such person or persons shall corruptly or dishonestly umpire, manage or direct said baseball game, or the players thereof, with the intention or purpose that the result of said baseball game will be affected or influenced thereby, is guilty of a felony and shall

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imprisonment in the state prison for a period not exceeding years, or by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 1921-63.

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338. Every person who carries on the business of a pawnbroker, by receiving goods in pledge for loans at any rate of interest above the rate of ten per cent per annum, except by authority of a license, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

339. Every person who carries on the business of a pawnbroker, or who purchases gold bars, gold quarts or gold bullion or mineral containing gold, who fails at the time of the transaction to enter in a register kept by him for that purpose, in the English language, the date, duration, amount, and rate of interest of every loan made by him, or an accurate description of the property pledged, or estimated value of the property purchased, or the

340. Pawnbrokers; What Interest May Charge.

Every pawn

broker who charges or receives interest at the rate of more than [three] per cent per month [on loans of three hundred dollars and 1 less and more than two per cent per month on loans in excess of said sum] or who by charging commissions, discount, storage, or other charge, or by compounding increases, or attempts to increase such interest [or charge], is guilty of a misdemeanor[; provided, however, that a minimum charge of fifty cents may be made in any case where the monthly charge allowed by this act would amount to less than fifty cents.] (In effect 91 days from and after Tay 15, 1929. Stats. 1929, Chap. 228.) Penal Code, 1929.

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341. Every pawnbroker who sells any article pledged to him and unredeemed, until it has remained in his possession six months after the last day fixed by contract for redemption, or who makes any sale without publishing in a newspaper printed in the city, town, or county, at least five days before such sale, a notice containing a list of the articles to be sold, and specifying the time and place of sale, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

342. Every pawnbroker who wilfully refuses to disclose to the pledgor or his agent the name of the purchaser and the price received by him for any article received by him in pledge and subsequently sold, or who, after deducting from the proceeds of any sale the amount of the loan and interest due thereon, and four per cent on the loan for expenses of sale, refuses, on demand, to pay the balance to the pledgor or his agent, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

343. Every pawnbroker or person who purchases gold bullion, gold bars or gold-quartz or mineral containing gold, who fails, refuses, or neglects to produce for inspection his register, or to exhibit all articles received by him in pledge, or his account of sales, to any officer holding a warrant authorizing him to search for personal property or to any person appointed by the sheriff or head of the police department of any city, city and county or town, or an orter of a committing magistrate directing such officer to inspect such register, or examine such articles or account of sales, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 1909-367.

344. Sections three hundred and thirty-nine, and three hundred and forty-two, and three hundred and forty-three of the Penal Code are applicable to the persons carrying on the business of junk dealers, their clerks, employees, or servants, and to persons acting as brokers or commission agents for such persons, and apply to their transactions of purchase and sale as well as to those of pledge or mortgage. 1901-75.

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346. Every physician who, in a state of intoxication, does any act as such physician to another person by which the life of such other person is endangered, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

347. Every person who willfully mingles any poison with any food, drink, or medicine, with intent that the same shall be taken by any human being, to his injury, and every person who willfully poisons any spring, well, or reservoir of water, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for a term not less than one nor more than ten years.

347a. No person must retail any arsenic, corrosive sublimate, hydrocyanic acid, cyanide of potassium, strychnia, essential oil of bitter almonds, opium, aconite, belladonna, conium, nux vomica, henbane, tansy, savin, ergot, cottonroot, digitalis, choloform, chloral hydrate, or any preparation, compound, salt, extract or tincture, of such substances, except preparations of opium containing less than two grains to the fluid ounce, white precipitate, red precipitate, red and green iodides of mercury, colchicum, cantharides, oxolic acid, croton-oil, sulphate of zinc, sugar of lead, carbolic acid, sulphuric acid, muriatic acid, nitric acid, phosphorus, or any preparation, compound, salt, extract, or tincture, of such substances, without first distinctly labeling the bottle, box, vessel, or package, and the wrapper or cover thereof in which such substance is contained, with the common or usual name thereof, together with the word "poison," and the name and place

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