CHAPTER 401

An Act to amend and reenact § 18.1-319 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to certain misdemeanors involving betting and wagering. 9
[S 399]

Approved April 2, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 18.1-319 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 18.1-319. Betting on games, races, etc.—No person shall:

(1) Occupy any room, shed, tenement or building, or any part
thereof, or any place upon any grounds, with books, apparatus or para-
phernalia for the purpose of recording or registering bets or wagers or of
selling or making books, pools, or mutuals upon the result of any game,
athletic contest or any trial of speed or power of endurance of animals
or beasts,

(2) Being the owner or lessee or occupant of any room, tent, tene-
ment, shed, booth or building or part thereof, knowingly permit the same
to be used or occupied for any such purpose, or therein, keep, exhibit or
employ any device or apparatus for the purpose of recording or registering
such bets or wagers or the selling or making of such books, pools or
mutuals,

(3) Become the custodian or depository for gain, hire or reward
of any money, property or thing of value bet or wagered or to be wagered
or bet contrary to the provisions of this section,

(4) Receive, register, record, forward or purport or pretend to for-
ward to or for any game, athletic contest or any race course any money,
thing or consideration of value offered for the purpose of being bet or
wagered upon any game or athletic contest or the speed or endurance of
any animal or beast,
(5) Occupy any place or building or part thereof with books, papers,
apparatus or paraphernalia for the purpose of receiving or pretending to
receive, recording, registering or forwarding, or pretending or attempting
to forward, in any manner whatever, any money, thing or consideration
of value bet or to be bet contrary to the provisions of this section, or

(6) Aid, assist or abet at any race track or place in any manner in
any of the acts forbidden by this section.

Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be *
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as provided in § 18.1-9,
as the same may be amended from time to time.

But nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent agricultural
associations and riding and driving clubs or associations from offering a
purse or premium at such trials of speed of animals or beasts as may
be held by them.