Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271 § 5

Current through Chapter 231 of the 2024
Section 271:5 - Keeping, or playing or presence in, common gaming, lottery, pool or betting houses; keeping tables or apparatus for gaming

Whoever, except as permitted under chapters 23K and 23N, keeps or assists in keeping a common gaming house, or building or place occupied, used or kept for the purposes described in section twenty-three, or is found playing or present as provided in said section, or commonly keeps or suffers to be kept, in a building or place actually used and occupied by him, tables or other apparatus for the purpose of playing at an unlawful game or sport for money or any other valuable thing, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not more than three months.

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 271, § 5

Amended by Acts 2022, c. 173,§ 13, eff. 8/10/2022.
Amended by Acts 2011, c. 194,§ 54, eff. 2/20/2012.