If the owner or lessee of any room, building, arbor, booth, stand, shed, tenement, watercraft or float shall know that any table, instrument, device or thing used for the purpose of gaming is kept or used in or about the same, or that any game of chance or skill, by or at which money or other articles of value may be lost or won, is being played therein or thereon, and shall not forthwith cause a complaint to be made against the person so keeping or using the same, or playing or suffering the playing of any such game therein or thereon, such owner or lessee shall be taken, held and considered to have knowledge thereof, and on conviction of assisting, shall be guilty of a violation of this section.
(1967 Code §14-18)