North Carolina General Statutes
Article 37 - Lotteries, Gaming, Bingo and Raffles.
§ 14-293 - Allowing gambling in houses of public entertainment; penalty.

14-293. Allowing gambling in houses of public entertainment; penalty.
Except as provided in Chapter 18C of the General Statutes, if any keeper of an ordinary or other house of entertainment, or of a house wherein alcoholic beverages are retailed, shall knowingly suffer any game, at which money or property, or anything of value, is bet, whether the same be in stake or not, to be played in any such house, or in any part of the premises occupied therewith; or shall furnish persons so playing or betting either on said premises or elsewhere with drink or other thing for their comfort or subsistence during the time of play, he shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. Any person who shall be convicted under this section shall, upon such conviction, forfeit his license to do any of the businesses mentioned in this section, and shall be forever debarred from doing any of such businesses in this State. The court shall embody in its judgment that such person has forfeited his license, and no board of county commissioners, board of town commissioners or board of aldermen shall thereafter have power or authority to grant to such convicted person or his agent a license to do any of the businesses mentioned herein. (1799, c. 526, P.R.; 1801, c. 581, P.R.; 1831, c. 26; R.C., c. 34, s. 76; Code, s. 1043; 1901, c. 753; Rev., s. 3716; C.S., 4431; 1967, c. 101, s. 1; 1981, c. 412, s. 4(4); c. 747, s. 66; 1993, c. 539, s. 205; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c); 2005-344, s. 3(f).)

Structure North Carolina General Statutes

North Carolina General Statutes

Chapter 14 - Criminal Law

Article 37 - Lotteries, Gaming, Bingo and Raffles.

§ 14-289 - Advertising lotteries.

§ 14-290 - Dealing in lotteries.

§ 14-291 - Selling lottery tickets and acting as agent for lotteries.

§ 14-291.1 - Selling "numbers" tickets; possession prima facie evidence of violation.

§ 14-291.2 - Pyramid and chain schemes prohibited.

§ 14-292 - Gambling.

§ 14-292.2 - Class III gaming on Indian lands.

§ 14-293 - Allowing gambling in houses of public entertainment; penalty.

§ 14-294 - Gambling with faro banks and tables.

§ 14-295 - Keeping gaming tables, illegal punchboards or slot machines, or betting thereat.

§ 14-296 - Illegal slot machines and punchboards defined.

§ 14-297 - Allowing gaming tables, illegal punchboards or slot machines on premises.

§ 14-298 - Seizure of illegal gaming items.

§ 14-299 - Property exhibited by gamblers to be seized; disposition of same.

§ 14-300 - Opposing destruction of gaming tables and seizure of property.

§ 14-301 - Operation or possession of slot machine; separate offenses.

§ 14-302 - Punchboards, vending machines, and other gambling devices; separate offenses.

§ 14-303 - Violation of two preceding sections a misdemeanor.

§ 14-304 - Manufacture, sale, etc., of slot machines and devices.

§ 14-305 - Agreements with reference to slot machines or devices made unlawful.

§ 14-306 - Slot machine or device defined.

§ 14-306.1A - Types of machines and devices prohibited by law; penalties.

§ 14-306.2 - Violation of G.S14-306.1A a violation of the ABC laws.

§ 14-306.3 - Certain game promotions unlawful.

§ 14-306.4 - Electronic machines and devices for sweepstakes prohibited.

§ 14-307 - Issuance of license prohibited.

§ 14-308 - Declared a public nuisance.

§ 14-309 - Violation made criminal.

§ 14-309.1 - Defense to possession; antique slot machines.

§ 14-309.5 - Bingo.

§ 14-309.6 - Definitions.

§ 14-309.7 - Licensing procedure.

§ 14-309.8 - Limit on sessions.

§ 14-309.9 - Bingo prizes.

§ 14-309.10 - Operation of bingo.

§ 14-309.11 - Accounting and use of proceeds.

§ 14-309.12 - Violation is gambling.

§ 14-309.13 - Public sessions.

§ 14-309.14 - Beach bingo.

§ 14-309.15 - Raffles.

§ 14-309.20 - Greyhound racing prohibited.

§ 14-309.25 - Definitions.

§ 14-309.26 - Game nights.

§ 14-309.27 - Permit procedure.

§ 14-309.28 - Limits on game night events.

§ 14-309.29 - Game night; prizes and costs.

§ 14-309.30 - Operation of game night events.

§ 14-309.31 - Use of proceeds.

§ 14-309.32 - Violation is gambling.

§ 14-309.33 - Applicability.

§ 14-309.34 - Applicability to employer paid events.

§ 14-309.35 - Registration, possession, and transportation of gaming equipment.

§ 14-309.36 - Permit procedure for game night vendors.

§ 14-309.37 - Slot machines, video gaming machines, electronic sweepstakes machines not authorized.