(A) Prohibited acts.
(1) Any person who plays or carries on, or opens or causes to be opened, or who conducts, either as 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.
(2) Any person who bets on or plays at any of the prohibited games mentioned in division (A)(1) above, or otherwise gambles, is guilty of an offense.
(3) 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.
(4) 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 chance, combination of numbers, emblems or any uncertain or contingent event or condition, or football or baseball contest.
(5) It is unlawful for any person to play any prohibited game described in this section.
(6) 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.
(7) 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.
(B) Seizure of apparatus and paraphernalia. 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.
(C) Exception, bingo. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the sponsoring and operation of bingo games by nonprofit religious, fraternal, charitable or educational organizations; provided, that the organizations are properly licensed and operated in accordance with law.
(Prior Code, § 5-4A-16) Penalty, see § 132.99