Georgia CommonsTítulo 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Capítulo 12. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC HEALTH AND MORALS · Artículo 2. GAMBLING AND RELATED OFFENSES · Parte 1. GAMBLING
16-12-23. Keeping a gambling place.
Actualizado hasta: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
El texto siguiente es la ley tal como la imprime el estado, en inglés.
- (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.#
- (b)
A person who commits the offense of keeping a gambling place shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature.#
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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Actualizado hasta: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.
Texto leído de t16-ch12-17-(v14b)-2024-pdf.pdf, Volumen V14B, edición 2024, páginas 59 a 60; acción de fusión: carried; SHA-256 del archivo 36dbab616896.