Boonville Same—Occupying room ordinance (§ 14-94)

Any person who occupies any room, shed, tenement, tent, booth, building or enclosure, or any part thereof, in this city, with any book, sheet, blackboard, instrument or device or substance for the purpose of recording or registering bets or wagers or selling any pools upon the result of any trial or contest of skill, speed or power of endurance of man or beast, which is to be made or to take place within or without this state; or any person who occupies any room, shed, tenement, tent, booth, building or enclosure, or any part thereof, in this city with any telephone or telegraph instrument, or any apparatus or device of any kind whatsoever, for the purpose of communicating information to any place in this or any other state, for the purpose of there recording or registering bets or wagers or selling pools upon the result of any trial or contest of skill, speed or power of endurance of man or beast, which is to be made or to take place within or without this state, or any person who in this city records or registers a bet or wager or sells pools upon the result of any trial or contest of skill, speed or power of endurance of man or beast, which is to be made or to take place within or without this state, or any person who becomes the custodian or depositary of any money, bet or wager or to be bet or wagered, upon any trial or contest of skill, speed or power of endurance of man or beast which is to be made or take place within or without this state, or any person who, being the owner, lessee, occupant or person in charge of any room, tenement, shed, tent, booth, building or enclosure, or any part thereof, within this city, knowingly permits the same to be used or occupied for any of the purposes herein set forth, shall, on conviction, be guilty of an offense.