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Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 12. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC HEALTH AND MORALS · Article 2. GAMBLING AND RELATED OFFENSES · Part 1. GAMBLING

16-12-23. Keeping a gambling place.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    A person who knowingly permits any real estate, building, room, tent, vehicle, boat, or other property whatsoever owned by him or under his control to be used as a gambling place or who rents or lets any such property with a view or expectation that it be so used commits the offense of keeping a gambling place.#

  2. (b)

    A person who commits the offense of keeping a gambling place shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Laws 1833, Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 815.; Code 1863, § 4423; Ga. L. 1865-66, p. 233, § 2; Code 1868, § 4464; Code 1873, § 4538; Code 1882, § 4538; Ga. L. 1884-85, p. 59, § 1; Penal Code 1895, § 398; Penal Code 1910, §§ 389, 390; Code 1933, §§ 26-6401, 26-6402; Code 1933, § 26-2704, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 1249, § 1; Ga. L. 1970, p. 236, § 7.

Law reviews

For note discussing organized crime in Georgia with respect to the application of state gambling laws, and suggesting proposals for combatting organized crime, see 7 Ga. St. B.J. 124 (1970).

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