Oklahoma § 21-970 - Slot machines - Acts prohibited - Punishment - Amusement

§ 21-970. Slot machines - Acts prohibited - Punishment - Amusement

machine or device near public school.

Any person who sets up, operates or conducts, or who permits to

be set up, operated and conducted, in or about any place of

business, or in or about any place, whether as owner, employee or

agent, any slot machine for the purpose of having or allowing same

to be played by others for money, property, tangible or intangible,

coin, currency, check, chip, token, credit, or any representative of

value or a thing of value, except amusement or entertainment, or who

sets up, operates or conducts, or who permits to be set up, operated

or conducted, in or about any place of business, or in or about any

place, whether as owner, employee or agent, any amusement machine,

instrument, mechanism or device within three hundred (300) feet of

any public school in this state, said distance to be measured from

the school building, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and

upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than Fifty

Dollars ($50.00) nor more than One Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00),

or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not more than

sixty (60) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Laws 1939, p. 10, § 7; Laws 1949, p. 204, § 2.