SUBPART B. OFFENSES AFFECTING GENERAL MORALITY
1. GAMBLING
§90. Gambling
A.(1)(a) Gambling is the intentional conducting, or directly assisting in the
conducting, as a business, of any game, contest, lottery, or contrivance whereby a person
risks the loss of anything of value in order to realize a profit.
(b) Whoever commits the crime of gambling shall be fined not more than five
hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.
(2) Whoever conducts, finances, manages, supervises, directs, or owns all or part
of an illegal gambling business shall be fined not more than twenty thousand dollars, or
imprisoned with or without hard labor, for not more than five years, or both when:
(a) R.S. 14:90 is violated.
(b) Five or more persons are involved who conduct, finance, manage, supervise,
direct, or own all or part of an illegal gambling business.
(c) Such business has been in or remains in substantially continuous operation for a
period of thirty days or more or, if the continuous operation is for less than thirty days,
has a gross revenue of two thousand dollars in any single day.
B. The conducting, or directly assisting in the conducting, as a business, of any
game, contest, lottery, or contrivance on board a commercial cruiseship used for the
international carriage of passengers whereby a person risks the loss of anything of value
in order to realize a profit is not gambling and shall not be suppressed by any law
enforcement officer of the state of Louisiana or any of its political subdivisions. This
Subsection shall apply only to commercial cruiseships for the carriage of passengers
which are sailing from a port outside the continental limits of the United States to a port
in any municipality of this state having a population of more than three hundred thousand
or any such ship which is sailing from a port in such a municipality to a port outside the
continental limits of the United States, provided that the ship is not docked or anchored
but is navigating en route between such ports.
C. The conducting or assisting in the conducting of gaming activities or operations
upon a riverboat at the official gaming establishment, by operating an electronic video
draw poker device, by a charitable gaming licensee, or at a pari-mutuel wagering facility,
conducting slot machine gaming at an eligible horse racing facility, or the operation of a
state lottery which is licensed for operation and regulated under the provisions of
Chapters 4 and 11 of Title 4, Chapters 4, 5, 7, and 8 of Title 27, or Subtitle XI of Title 47
of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, is not gambling for the purposes of this
Section, so long as the wagering is conducted on the premises of the licensed
establishment.
D. Except as provided in R.S. 27:305, participation in any fantasy sports contest
as defined by R.S. 27:302 shall not be considered gambling for the purposes of this
Section.
E. Sports wagering shall not be considered gambling for purposes of this Section
so long as the wagering is conducted in compliance with Chapter 10 of Title 27 of the
Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950 or Chaprter 10 of Subtitle XI of Title 47 of the
Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.
Amended by Acts 1968, No. 647, §1; Acts 1979, No. 633, §1; Acts 1990, No.
1045, §2, eff. Nov. 7, 1990; Acts 1991, No. 158, §1; Acts 1991, No. 289, §6; Acts 1991,
No. 753, §2, eff. July 18, 1991; Acts 1992, No. 384, §2, eff. June 18, 1992; Acts 2010,
No. 518, §§1 & 2, eff. August 15, 2010; Acts 2011, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 17, §1, eff. June 12,
2011; Acts 2012, No. 161, §1, eff. August 1, 2012; Acts 2018, No. 322, §3, eff. upon
adoption of fantasy sports contests rules by the La. Gaming Control Board, rules adopted
Feb. 20, 2021; Acts 2021, No. 80, §2, eff. July 1, 2021; Acts 2021, No. 440, §3, eff. July
1, 2021.