Sec. 53-314. Keeping bucket shop.
Sec. 53-314. Keeping bucket shop. No corporation, association, copartnership or
person shall keep or cause to be kept any bucket shop; and any person or corporation,
whether acting individually, or as a member of, or an officer, agent or employee of, any
corporation, association or copartnership, who or which keeps or assists in the keeping
of any bucket shop shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than five hundred
and not more than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned in a community correctional
center until such fine is paid, provided such imprisonment shall not continue for more
than one year; and any person or persons who are found guilty of a second offense under
this section and sections 53-315 and 53-316 shall, in addition to the penalty hereinbefore
prescribed, be imprisoned not less than sixty days nor more than one year, and any
corporation convicted of such second offense shall be liable to forfeiture of its charter.
The continuance of any such establishment after a first conviction shall be deemed a
second offense.
(1949 Rev., S. 8615; 1969, P.A. 297.)
History: 1969 act substituted "community correctional center" for "jail".