File #: Int 0051-1998    Version: * Name: Three-Card Monte, Prohibited
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Public Safety
On agenda: 1/22/1998
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to prohibiting the public playing of three-card monte.
Sponsors: Andrew S. Eristoff, Julia Harrison, Guillermo Linares, Michael J. Abel, Thomas V. Ognibene, John Fusco, Alphonse Stabile, Sheldon S. Leffler, Archie W. Spigner, Lucy Cruz, Martin Malave-Dilan, Kathryn E. Freed, Lloyd Henry, Thomas K. Duane, Madeline T. Provenzano, Stephen J. Fiala, Martin J. Golden, Stephen DiBrienza, Howard L. Lasher, Stanley E. Michels, Gifford Miller, Victor L. Robles, Lawrence A. Warden, Adolfo Carrion
Council Member Sponsors: 24
Int. No. 51
 
By Council Members Eristoff, Harrison, Linares, Abel, Ognibene, Fusco, Stabile, Leffler, Spigner, Rosado, Cruz, Malave-Dilan, Freed, Henry, Duane, Provenzano, Fiala and Golden; also Council Members DiBrienza, Lasher, Michels, Miller, Robles, Warden and Carrion.
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to prohibiting the public playing of three-card monte.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
        Section 1.  Chapter one of title ten of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to add a new section 10-161 to read as follows:
        §10-161.  Three-card monte prohibited.
                  a.        Definitions.  For the purposes of this section, "three-card monte" shall mean a game or scheme in which the player receives money if he or she correctly selects one of any number of objects, which object was designated by the dealer, operator or any individual working with said dealer or operator of the game or scheme, as the winning object prior to shuffling or rearranging the position of such objects.  "Objects" shall be defined as any item capable of being shuffled or rearranged on a surface, including, but not limited to, cards, shells or caps.
        b.        It shall be unlawful for any person to deal, play or practice, or be in any manner accessory to the dealing, playing or practicing of three-card monte on any public street, sidewalk or plaza.
        c.        Any person who violates subdivision b of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
        §2.       This local law shall take effect immediately.
 
        Referred to the Committee on Public Safety.