No person or persons shall exhibit or expose to view in any barred or barricaded house or room, in any place built or constructed in such manner as to make it difficult of access or ingress to police officers or other officers, or protected, furnished or equipped with speaking tubes, dumbwaiters, electric wires or bells, or other apparatus for giving alarm from the outside or from the inside of such house, or room when two or more persons are present, any cards, dice, roulette wheel or any gambling implements whatever. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years; and all persons who visit or resort to any such barred or barricaded house or room or other place that is built or protected or equipped in the manner described in this section and where any cards, dice, roulette wheel or any gaming implements whatever are kept or exhibited or exposed to view when said persons visit or resort to such place for the purpose of gaming, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $300.00 and may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the county for not more than six months.
Structure Code of Alabama
Chapter 12 - Offenses Against Public Health and Morals.
Article 2 - Gambling Offenses.
Division 2 - Suppression of Gambling Places.
Section 13A-12-50 - Unlawful to Maintain Electric Bells, Etc.
Section 13A-12-51 - District Attorney to File Complaint on Certain Information.
Section 13A-12-53 - Owner Permitting Any Person to Equip Any Room, Etc.
Section 13A-12-54 - When Affidavit Made, Court to Examine Affiant Under Oath.
Section 13A-12-55 - Duty of Officer to Break Into and Enter House.
Section 13A-12-56 - Arrest of Occupants of House.
Section 13A-12-57 - Trial; Defendant Bound Over.
Section 13A-12-58 - Presence of Bells, etc., Prima Facie Evidence.