(1) It is unlawful for a person playing a licensed game in licensed gaming premises to:
Knowingly conduct, carry on, operate, or deal or allow to be conducted, carried on,operated, or dealt any cheating or thieving game or device; or
Knowingly deal, conduct, carry on, operate, or expose for play a physical or electronic version of a game played with physical or electronic cards or a mechanical device, or any combination of games or devices, that have been marked or tampered with or placed in a condition or operated in a manner that tends to deceive the public or alter the normal random selection of characteristics or the normal chance of the game, or that could determine or alter the result of the game.
(2) Any person violating any provision of this section commits a class 6 felony and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-401; except that, if the person is a repeating gambling offender, the person commits a class 5 felony and shall be punished as provided in section 181.3-401.
Source: L. 2018: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 18-034), ch. 14, p. 214, § 2, effective October 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-47.1-826 as it existed prior to 2018.