(A) No person or his or her agent or employee shall directly or indirectly keep or occupy, or assist in keeping or occupying, any common gambling house or any building or place where gaming is permitted; or shall permit on any premises owned, occupied, or controlled by him or her any apparatus used for gaming or gambling; or shall use such apparatus for gaming or gambling.
(B) No person shall, for hire, gain, or reward, keep or maintain a gaming room or gaming table, or any game of skill or chance, or partly of skill and partly of chance, used for gaming; or shall knowingly permit a gaming room or gaming table or any such game to be kept, maintained, or played on any premises occupied or controlled by him or her, and no person shall aid, assist, or abet in the keeping or maintaining of any such gaming rooms, gaming table, or game.
(C) No person or his or her agent or employee shall directly or indirectly keep, maintain, operate, or occupy any building or room or any part thereof or any place with apparatus, books, or any device for registering bets or buying or selling pools upon the result of a trial or contest of skill, speed, or endurance or upon the result of a game, competition, political nomination, appointment, or election or any purported event of like character; or shall register bets, or buy or sell pools; or shall knowingly permit any grounds or premises owned, occupied, or controlled by him or her to be used for any of the purposes aforesaid.
(D) No person shall have in his or her possession any policy or pool tickets, slips, or checks, memoranda of any combination or other bet, manifold, or other policy or pool books or sheets.
(E) No person shall attend or frequent any place where gaming or gambling is permitted, or any place operated or occupied as a common gaming or gambling house or room.
(F) No person shall set up or promote any lottery or gift enterprise for money, or shall dispose of any property, real or personal, goods, chattels, or merchandise or valuable thing by the way of lottery or gift enterprise; and no person shall aid in the setting up, managing, or drawing of any such lottery or gift enterprise, or shall in any house, shop, or building owned, occupied, or controlled by him or her knowingly permit the setting up, managing, or drawing of any such lottery or gift enterprise; and no person shall sell or offer for sale or knowingly permit the sale of any lottery ticket, or any other writing, certificate, bill, goods, chattels or merchandise, token, or other device purporting or intended to entitle the holder or bearer or other person to any prize or gift, or to any share of or interest in any prize or gift to be drawn in any such lottery or gift enterprise, or shall knowingly permit money or other property to be raffled for in such house, shop, or building.
(G) This section shall not apply to:
(1) The state lottery as provided in the McCauley-Traxler-Law-Bowman-McNeely Lottery Act, Public Act 239 of 1972, being M.C.L. §§ 432.1 et seq.; or
(2) Any bingo game held or conducted pursuant to the McCauley-Traxler-Law-Bowman Bingo Act, Public Act 382 of 1972, being M.C.L. §§ 432.101 et seq.
(Prior Code, § 131.01) (Ord. D-200, passed 11-7-1949, effective 11-17-1949; Ord. D-1223, passed 5-9-1977, effective 5-19-1977) Penalty, see § 30.99