725.5  Keeping gambling houses.

Any person who keeps a house, shop, or place resorted to for the purpose of gambling, or permits any person in any house, shop, or other place under the person's control or care to conduct bookmaking or to play at cards, dice, faro, roulette, equality, punchboard, slot machine or other game for money or other thing, commits a serious misdemeanor.

Section History: Early form

  [C51, § 2721; R60, § 4363; C73, § 4026; C97, § 4962; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 13198; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, § 726.1; C79, 81, § 725.5]

Internal References

  Referred to in § 709A.1, 725.6, 725.15

Footnotes

  Sections 725.5 to 725.18 were not enacted as a part of the criminal code but were transferred here from § 726.1 to 726.16, Code 1977


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