11-14 - Gaming contracts void.
§ 11-14. Gaming contracts void.
Except as otherwise provided in this section, all wagers, conveyances,assurances, and all contracts and securities whereof the whole or any part ofthe consideration is money or other valuable thing won, laid, or bet, at anygame, horse race, sport or pastime, and all contracts to repay any moneyknowingly lent at the time and place of such game, race, sport or pastime, toany person for the purpose of so gaming, betting, or wagering, or to repayany money so lent to any person who shall, at such time and place, so pay,bet or wager, shall be utterly void.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a contract governing thedistribution of state lottery proceeds shall be valid and enforceable asbetween the parties to the contract.
(Code 1919, § 5558; 1998, c. 400.)