§90.2. Gambling in public
A. Gambling in public is the aiding or abetting or participation in any
game, contest, lottery, or contrivance, in any location or place open to the view
of the public or the people at large, such as streets, highways, vacant lots,
neutral grounds, alleyway, sidewalk, park, beach, parking lot, or condemned
structures whereby a person risks the loss of anything of value in order to
realize a profit.
B. This Section shall not prohibit activities authorized under the
Charitable Raffles, Bingo and Keno Licensing Law, nor shall it apply to bona
fide fairs and festivals conducted for charitable purposes.
C. Whoever commits the crime of gambling in public shall be fined not
more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months,
or both.
Added by Acts 1979, No. 754, §1, eff. July 20, 1979.