§ 11-19-18. Keeping of gambling places or devices — 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 or town of this state, or in any vessel, boat, or raft upon any of the waters of Narragansett Bay, to be used or occupied for the purpose of gambling, or playing at any game or games of chance of any kind whatsoever, for money or other valuable consideration, or shall keep, exhibit, or suffer to be kept or exhibited upon premises or in a vehicle belonging to that person under his or her control, any cards, dice, table, bowls, wheel of fortune, shuffleboard, or billiard table, or any device, implement, or apparatus whatsoever to be used in gambling or playing at any game or games of chance for money or other valuable consideration, or who shall be guilty of dealing Faro, or banking for others to deal Faro, or acting as lookout, gamekeeper, or assistant for the game of Faro or 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 not exceeding two (2) years or be fined not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000) nor less than five hundred dollars ($500).
History of Section.G.L. 1896, ch. 283, § 5; G.L. 1909, ch. 349, § 9; G.L. 1923, ch. 401, § 9; G.L. 1938, ch. 612, § 9; P.L. 1956, ch. 3759, § 1; G.L. 1956, § 11-19-18.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Chapter 11-19 - Gambling and Lotteries
Section 11-19-1. - Forms of gambling prohibited.
Section 11-19-1.1. - Lotteries permitted.
Section 11-19-2. - Unauthorized sale of lottery tickets.
Section 11-19-3. - Instruments given for lottery tickets void.
Section 11-19-4. - Recovery of lottery ticket value by holder.
Section 11-19-5. - Acts in aid of policy game.
Section 11-19-6. - Possession of policy devices as evidence of knowledge.
Section 11-19-7. - Judicial notice of policy methods.
Section 11-19-8. - Policy devices as evidence of existence of game.
Section 11-19-9. - Illegal trading stamps and coupons.
Section 11-19-10. - Distribution of illegal stamps or coupons.
Section 11-19-11. - Stamps and coupons as inducement to purchase goods.
Section 11-19-12. - Penalty for stamp and coupon violations.
Section 11-19-13. - Door prizes exempt.
Section 11-19-14. - Bookmaking.
Section 11-19-14.1. - Bookmaking at racetrack or fronton — Entry by convicted bookmakers prohibited.
Section 11-19-15. - Betting on horses.
Section 11-19-16. - Forfeiture of horses used in unlawful race.
Section 11-19-17. - Invalidity of instruments won in bets on races or fights.
Section 11-19-18. - Keeping of gambling places or devices — Acting as dealer, banker, or lookout.
Section 11-19-19. - Revocation of license of gambling place.
Section 11-19-20. - Inducing others to visit gambling place.
Section 11-19-21. - Frequenting gambling place.
Section 11-19-22. - Renting for gambling purposes.
Section 11-19-23. - Lease voided by gambling.
Section 11-19-24. - Search warrants and forfeitures of gambling apparatus.
Section 11-19-26. - Destruction of apparatus seized.
Section 11-19-28. - Fees for seizure and removal of gambling apparatus.
Section 11-19-30. - Definitions.
Section 11-19-30.1 - — 11-19-30.3. Repealed.
Section 11-19-31. - Registration of charitable organizations.
Section 11-19-32. - Operation of bingo games.
Section 11-19-32.1. - Senior citizens housing — Bingo allowed.
Section 11-19-32.2. - Senior citizens’ center — Bingo allowed.
Section 11-19-33. - Bingo games — Announcement of prizes.
Section 11-19-34. - Use of name of charitable organization to conduct permitted games of chance.
Section 11-19-34.1. - Senior citizens housing — Raffles allowed.
Section 11-19-35. - Pull-tab lottery tickets.
Section 11-19-36. - Organizations permitted to conduct other permitted games of chance.
Section 11-19-37. - Issuance of licenses.
Section 11-19-38. - Change of information.
Section 11-19-39. - Enforcement and penalties.
Section 11-19-40. - Rules and regulations.
Section 11-19-41. - Police regulation of bingo and permitted games of chance.
Section 11-19-42. - Forfeiture of charter rights and privileges.