(A) Any person who plays or carries on, or opens or causes to be opened, or who conducts, either as an owner or employee, roulette, craps, or any banking or percentage game, played with dice, cards, or any other device for money, checks, credit, or any representative of value, or any other gambling game, is guilty of an offense.
(B) Any person who bets on or plays at any of the prohibited games mentioned in division (A) above, or otherwise gambles, is guilty of an offense.
(C) It is unlawful for any person to exhibit or expose to view in any building, or in any part of or room in any building, any table, cards, dice, roulette wheel, or other article or apparatus designed for or used for gambling purposes.
(D) It is unlawful for any person to keep, own, operate, use, conduct, or cause to be kept, operated, used, or conducted, either as owner, manager, dealer, clerk, or employee, and whether for hire or not, any punch board, machine, cards, game, parlay card, or any other device or paraphernalia, wherein or whereby any money or property, or any representative of either, or other valuable thing, may be played, bet, staked, wagered or hazarded, won, lost, or obtained upon any change, combination of numbers, emblems, or any uncertain or contingent event or condition, or football or baseball contest.
(E) It is unlawful for any person to play any prohibited game described in this section.
(F) It is unlawful for any person to bar or barricade any building, or any part of or room in any building, in order to render the same difficult of access or ingress to the police officers of the town, in which building, or any part of or room in any such building, any table, cards, dice, roulette wheel, or other article or apparatus designed for, or being used for, gambling purposes are exhibited or exposed to view.
(G) The apparatus and paraphernalia used in the conduct of any of the gambling games prohibited by this section are hereby declared to be a public nuisance and subject to seizure and suppression by any officer, and shall be abated, forfeited, and destroyed upon the order and decree of any court of competent jurisdiction.
(H) It is unlawful for any person to be about in the immediate vicinity where a person or persons are gambling, whether by playing games, operating a slot machine or other device, or otherwise.
(I) Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the sponsoring and operation of bingo games by nonprofit religious, fraternal, charitable, or educational organizations; provided the organizations are properly licensed and operated in accordance with law.
(Prior Code, § 10-512) Penalty, see § 133.99
Statutory reference:
Administration of drugs or medications; determination by rule; penalties, see 3A O.S. § 208.11
Betting on or playing prohibited game; punishment, see 21 O.S. § 942
Breakage; distribution of proceeds, see 3A O.S. § 208
Compensation for wagering prohibited; penalties, see 3A O.S. § 208.9
Conducting race or race meeting without license; permitting minors to participate in certain activities; penalties, see 3A O.S. § 208.4
Corrupt acts and practices; penalties, see 3A O.S. § 208.8
County option, see 3A O.S. § 209
Definitions, see 3A O.S. § 200.1
Fraud regarding prior racing record, pedigree, identity, or ownership of registered animal, see 3A O.S. § 208.10
Gambling paraphernalia; disposition, see 21 O.S. § 943
Gaming areas not subject to certain smoking prohibitions; requirements, see 3A O.S. § 208.12
National Breeder’s Cup; pick seven wagers; apportionment of wagered funds, see 3A O.S. § 205.8
Oklahoma Breeding Development Administration Revolving Fund, see 3A O.S. § 208.3a
Oklahoma Breeding Development Fund Special Account, see 3A O.S. § 208.3
Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission; creation; membership; appointment; term; removal; vacancies, see 3A O.S. § 201
Opening, conducting, or carrying on gambling game; dealing for those engaged in game, see 21 O.S. § 941
Ownership interest in organization license, see 3A O.S. § 205.2a
Persons ineligible for grant of organization license, see 3A O.S. § 205.3
Race meetings conducted by fair associations; proportions of wagers retained; licenses, see 3A O.S. § 208.2
Seizure of apparatus and delivery to magistrate, 21 O.S. § 960
Seizure of slot machines and punch boards; confiscation, procedure for, see 21 O.S. § 973
Short title, see 3A O.S. § 200
Tax imposed; distribution of proceeds, see 3A O.S. § 207
Televised races, 3A O.S. see § 205.7a
True name of horse to be used; violations, see 3A O.S. § 208.6
Unclaimed winning tickets; claims; proceeds, see 3A O.S. § 208.1
Use of certain devices for stimulating or depressing horse prohibited; violations; penalties, see 3A O.S. § 208.7
Wagering on out-of-state races, see 3A O.S. § 205.7