(A) It shall be unlawful for any person to keep or exhibit any gambling table, punch board, or gambling device of any nature, and any such gambling table, punch board, or device may be confiscated by any member of the Police Department.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any person to bet or play at any gambling table or gambling device. It shall be unlawful for any person at any place, public or private, to bet or wage money or anything of value on any game of chance, and it farther shall be unlawful for any person knowingly to furnish money or other thing of value to any other person to bet or wager on any game of chance.
(C) It shall be unlawful for the owner, lessee, or occupant of any room, office, dwelling, club, or other building or structure to permit or allow any game of chance or gambling contest of any nature to be played or conducted in such room, office, dwelling, club, or other building or structure.
(D) It shall be unlawful for any person to sponsor, participate in, conduct, or manage any lottery, raffle, arrangement, or device involving the buying or selling of chances or tickets for cash prizes or prizes of merchandise or personal or real property of any nature; and it further shall be unlawful for any person to buy or sell any chances or tickets in any gambling, game, lottery, raffle, gambling arrangement, or gambling device.
(E) All money and things of value drawn or proposed to be drawn by any person within the city, and all money or other things of value received by such person by reason of his or her being the owner or holder of a ticket or a share of a ticket, in any lottery or pretended lottery, contrary to the provisions of this chapter shall be forfeited to the city.
(Prior Code, § 17-35) Penalty, see § 130.999
Statutory reference:
Authority of city with respect to gambling, see W. Va. Code 8-12-5(22)
For state law as to gambling generally, see W. Va. Code 61-10-1 et seq.