75-76-305 - Use or manufacture of slugs or counterfeit chips or tokens prohibited; possession of certain devices prohibited. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 75-76-305. Use or manufacture of slugs or counterfeit chips or tokens prohibited; possession of certain devices prohibited.
 

(1)  It is unlawful for any licensee, employee or other person to use counterfeit chips in a gambling game. 

(2)  It is unlawful for any person, in playing or using any gambling game designed to be played with, receive or be operated by chips or tokens approved by the commission or by lawful coins of the United States of America: 

(a) Knowingly to use other than chips or tokens approved by the commission or lawful coins, legal tender of the United States of America, or to use coins not of the same denomination as the coins intended to be used in that gambling game; or 

(b) To use any device or means to violate the provisions of this chapter. 

(3)  It is unlawful for any person, not a duly authorized employee of a licensee acting in furtherance of his employment within an establishment, to have on his person or in his possession on or off the premises of any licensed gaming establishment any device intended to be used to violate the provisions of this chapter. 

(4)  It is unlawful for any person, not a duly authorized employee of a licensee acting in furtherance of his employment within an establishment, to have on his person or in his possession on or off the premises of any licensed gaming establishment any key or device known to have been designed for the purpose of and suitable for opening, entering or affecting the operation of any gambling game, drop box or any electronic or mechanical device connected thereto, or for removing money or other contents therefrom. 

(5)  It is unlawful for any person to have on his person or in his possession any paraphernalia for manufacturing slugs. As used in this subsection, "paraphernalia for manufacturing slugs" means the equipment, products and materials that are intended for use or designed for use in manufacturing, producing, fabricating, preparing, testing, analyzing, packaging, storing or concealing a counterfeit facsimile of the chips or tokens approved by the commission or lawful coins of the United States, the use of which is unlawful pursuant to subsection (2) of this section. The term includes, but is not limited to: 

(a) Metal or metal alloys; 

(b) Molds, forms or similar equipment capable of producing a likeness of a gaming token or United States coin; 

(c) Melting pots or other receptacles; 

(d) Torches; and 

(e) Tongs, trimming tools or other similar equipment. 

(6)  Possession of more than one (1) of the devices, equipment, products or materials described in this section permits a rebuttable inference that the possessor intended to use them for cheating. 
 

Sources: Laws,  1993, ch. 488, § 4, eff from and after passage (approved April 20, 1993).