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2014 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 30 - Criminal Offenses
Section 19 Gambling
Section 30-19-3 Commercial gambling.
NM Stat § 30-19-3 (2014) What's This?
30-19-3. Commercial gambling.
Commercial gambling consists of either:
A. participating in the earnings of or operating a gambling place;
B. receiving, recording or forwarding bets or offers to bet;
C. possessing facilities with the intent to receive, record or forward bets or offers to bet;
D. for gain, becoming a custodian of anything of value, bet or offered to be bet;
E. conducting a lottery where both the consideration and the prize are money, or whoever with intent to conduct a lottery, possesses facilities to do so; or
F. setting up for use, for the purpose of gambling, or collecting the proceeds of, any gambling device.
Whoever commits commercial gambling is guilty of a fourth degree felony.
History: 1953 Comp., 40A-19-3, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 303, 19-3.
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