Boonville Weather ticket game; possession of tickets or equipment ordinance (§ 14-104)

(a) It shall be unlawful:

(1) For any person, other than a public official in the discharge of his official duties, knowingly to have in his possession any "weather tickets," or books, rate sheets, or other equipment used in the weather ticket game or in any similar schemes devised for betting or

wagering on any lot, chance, casualty or unknown or contingent event whatever, by whatever name the scheme may be called, whether the operation of the scheme shall be located, paid or carried on within or without this state;

(2) For any person to make or establish or aid or assist in making or establishing any scheme of betting known as the "weather ticket game," or any similar scheme or operation by whatever name it may be called, as a business or avocation, within this city;

(3) For any person to advertise, or make public, or cause to be advertised or made public, by means of any newspaper, pamphlet, circular or other written or printed notice thereof, printed or circulated in this city, any such weather ticket game or similar scheme, by whatever name it may be called, whether the same is being conducted, paid or operated within or without this state;

(4) For any person to keep, occupy or use, or permit to be kept, occupied or used, a place, building, room or establishment for the playing of the weather ticket game or any similar scheme by whatever name it may be called; or for any person to be the owner, agent, superintendent, janitor or caretaker of any place, building or room where weather ticket games or similar scheme or schemes are played or carried on with his knowledge; (5) For any person to act as a manager, salesman, agent, commissioned salesman, collector or acceptor of money, or runner, or to accept or engage in any employment of any type connected with the operation of any weather ticket game or any similar scheme by whatever name it may be called;

(6) For any person to aid, assist or abet, in any manner, any weather ticket game or any similar scheme by whatever name it may be called.

(b) If any person, other than a public official in the discharge of his official duties, knowingly has in his possession, any weather tickets, or books, rate sheets, or other equipment used in the weather ticket game, or any equipment used in any similar scheme or operation by whatever name it may be called, the same shall be prima facie evidence of violations of subdivisions (2), (5) and (6) of subsection (a).