2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 16 - Crimes and Offenses
Chapter 19 - GAMBLING AND LOTTERIES
Section 16-19-50 - Keeping unlawful gaming tables.


SC Code § 16-19-50 (2012) What's This?

Any person who shall set up, keep, or use any (a) gaming table, commonly called A, B, C, or E, O, or any gaming table known or distinguished by any other letters or by any figures, (b) roley-poley table, (c) table to play at rouge et noir, (d) faro bank (e) any other gaming table or bank of the like kind or of any other kind for the purpose of gaming, or (f) any machine or device licensed pursuant to Section 12-21-2720 and used for gambling purposes except the games of billiards, bowls, chess, draughts, and backgammon, upon being convicted thereof, upon indictment, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars and not less than two hundred dollars.

HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 16-505; 1952 Code Section 16-505; 1942 Code Section 1739; 1932 Code Section 1739; Cr. C. '22 Section 721; Cr. C. '12 Section 705; Cr. C. '02 Section 507; G. S. 1716; R. S. 392; 1816 (6) 27; 1999 Act No. 125, Section 7.

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