§ 11-19-18 - Keeping of gambling places or devices – Acting as dealer, banker, or lookout. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 11-19-18

   § 11-19-18  Keeping of gambling places ordevices – Acting as dealer, banker, or lookout. – Every person who shall keep or suffer to be kept any building, room, booth,shed, tent, arbor, or any other place, or any automobile, bus, coach, van,truck, trainer, railway or railroad car, or any other vehicle in any city ortown of this state, or in any vessel, boat, or raft upon any of the waters ofNarragansett Bay, to be used or occupied for the purpose of gambling, orplaying at any game or games of chance of any kind whatsoever, for money orother valuable consideration, or shall keep, exhibit, or suffer to be kept orexhibited upon premises or in a vehicle belonging to that person under his orher control, any cards, dice, table, bowls, wheel of fortune, shuffleboard, orbilliard table, or any device, implement, or apparatus whatsoever to be used ingambling or playing at any game or games of chance for money or other valuableconsideration, or who shall be guilty of dealing Faro, or banking for others todeal Faro, or acting as lookout, gamekeeper, or assistant for the game of Faroor any other banking game where money or property is dependent on the result,shall be taken and held to be a common gambler and shall be imprisoned notexceeding two (2) years or be fined not exceeding five thousand dollars($5,000) nor less than five hundred dollars ($500).