517.02 GAMBLING.
   (a)   No person shall engage in bookmaking, betting, schemes of chance, games of chance, possess or use a gambling device or shall engage in any other gambling in any form on park district property except as authorized by a permit from the Executive Director for charitable purposes as expressly permitted by law.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of gambling, a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the offender previously has been convicted of a gambling offense, gambling is a felony and shall be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
(ORC 2915.02)