Any state, district, city, town, county or township officer who shall engage or participate in, or who shall assist or encourage any other person or persons in any kind of illegal gambling, whether the same be by cards, dice, dominoes, billiards or any game of chance or a gambling device, by betting money, property or other things of value in such game of chance, or gambling device, such officer shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) nor more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a term of not less than one (1) year nor more than ten (10) years, and such judgment of conviction shall carry with it an immediate removal from office and a disqualification to hold any office of profit or trust in the State of Oklahoma.
Added by Laws 1916, c. 26, p. 58, § 8, emerg. eff. Jan. 29, 1916. Amended by Laws 1993, c. 305, § 2, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 1997, c. 133, § 268, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 172, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 268 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.