A. Each and every person who deals, plays or carries on, opens or causes to be opened, or who conducts, either as owner, proprietor or employee, whether for hire or not, any game of chance with cards, such as faro, monte, roulette, rouge et noir, lansquenet, rondo, vingt-et-un, blackjack (twenty-one), poker, draw poker, stud poker, brag, bluff or thaw, or any person or persons who play with cards, dice or any device, for any valuable thing, whether the same are for money, checks, credit, or anything representative of value, within the city, shall be deemed an ordinance violator.

B. This provision does not prohibit activities duly authorized under AS 05.15 by a qualified organization or municipality, but does prohibit activities by an operator. (Ord. 14-028 § 11, 2014; Ord. 488 § 3, 1996; Ord. 436 § 3, 1991; Ord. 210 § 4, 1978; 1978 code § 9.22)