Sec. 19-32. Gambling—Keeping gaming table or device.[324]
No person shall keep or exhibit a gaming table, commonly
called A. B. C., or E. O. table, wheel of fortune, nickel-in-the-slot
machine, faro bank, keno table, race-course table, racehorse table
or any table of like kind, or any table, apparatus or machine used
in playing any game of chance at which money, articles of value
or capital prize be won or lost, whether the game be played with
cards, dice, money or otherwise, or be a partner or concerned in,
either as owner, operator or employee, the keeping, exhibiting,
using or operating of such table, machine, apparatus or bank.
Each day such machine, apparatus or table is so used shall
constitute a separate offense.
Any such device or apparatus hereinabove described and all the
money, stakes or exhibits found therewith may be seized by order
of court or under warrant of the municipal judge, and the money
so seized shall be forfeited to the city and the device or apparatus
so seized shall be destroyed. (Code 1959, § 19-32.)
