For the purpose of this article the following words and phrases are defined and shall be construed as hereinafter set out, unless it shall be apparent from the context that they have a different meaning:
“Chain Letter Scheme” shall mean and include any system, scheme or device, whether operated by letters, circulars, cards or other written or printed instrumentalities, or orally, or by any other system whatsoever, whereby it is represented, proposed or held out, that upon the payment, deposit, transmission, donation or surrender of any sum of money, or any other thing of value, the person so paying, depositing, transmitting, donating or surrendering money, or other thing of value, may receive in return therefor money, or any other thing of value, in an amount greater than the sum so paid, deposited, transmitted, donated, or surrendered by such person; such receipt of money, or other thing of value, to be in a sum greater than the value of the money, or other thing of value, paid, deposited, transmitted, donated or surrendered; being dependent, either wholly or in part, upon that person’s paying, depositing, transmitting, donating or surrendering money, or any other thing of value; determination of when such persons shall receive such greater sum of money, or other thing of value, being effected by any system or scheme whereby the names of persons paying, depositing, transmitting, donating or surrendering any sum of money, or other thing of value, are arranged so that the payment, donation or contribution to them depends upon a scheme whereby their names appear at the top or other designated place upon a list according to the number, order or rotation of such persons who have, or who may thereafter pay, deposit, donate, transmit or surrender any sum of money, or other thing of value, to participate therein.
“Lottery Ticket” shall mean any ticket, bill, scroll, paper, handbill, print, statement, chance share, memorandum, figure, character, interest, instrument or any other object purporting or understood to be or to represent any interest whatsoever in or depending upon the event of any lottery whether the same is used or intended for use or has been used or intended for use in a lottery drawing.
“Lottery Device” shall mean any tool, brush, punch, stamp, die, cut, instrument or device used or understood or intended to be used to contrive, prepare, set up, propose, draw, print, stamp, mark, write or distribute any lottery or lottery ticket or by which the outcome, results or bets of any lottery or lottery drawing are prepared, drawn, printed, stamped, marked or written.
The words “intended to be used” employed in the definition of lottery-device in Section 43.00 are descriptive of the device rather than descriptive of the possession.
People v. Jackson, CR A 1588.
The failure to state the objects embraced in the definition of “lottery-device,” if not attacked by demurrer, is not prejudicial to the defendant.
People v. Sielski, CR A 1624.
“Weighing or Measuring Instrument” shall mean any scale, balance, receptacle, container, device or other apparatus or equipment by which the gravity, quantity, extent or volume of anything is compared or determined.