Chap. 210.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act entitled an act to prob
keeping or exhibiting, or being concerned in interest in keeping or
hibiting, any slot machine or device that operates in the nickel in
slot principle, in operating which the element of chance enters in,
proved March 28, 1903.

Approved March 14, 1906.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That an act
titled an act to prohibit keeping or exhibiting, or being concerned in
terest in keeping or exhibiting, any slot machine or device that oper:
on the nickel-in-the-slot principle, in operating which the element
chance enters in, approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred
three, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

$1. That if any person keep or exhibit, or be concerned in interes
keeping or exhibiting, any slot machine of any description into which
dropped pennies or nickels or coins of any other denominations, or o1
device that operates on the nickel-in-the-slot principle, in the operat
of which said machine or device the element of chance enters in, or |
mit such machine or device to be kept or exhibited in his place of b
ness, or any other place in this State; and the possession of the afore:
machine or device shall be prima facie evidence of the use thereof: |
upon conviction for either offense he shall be confined in jail not less t
fifteen days nor more than sixty days and fined not less than one h
‘hie nor more than five hundred dollars, and said machine or device =!

be deemed gaming apparatus, and shall be embraced within the |
visions of sections three thousand nine hundred and fifty-two, three th
sand nine hundred and fifty-three, and three thousand nine hundred :
fifty-four of the Code of Virginia, eighteen hundred and eighty-se
and acts amendatory thereto in so far as said sections and acts amendat
thereof relate to gaming apparatus: provided, that this act shall not
ply to any slot machine or device that operates on the nickel-in-the-
principle, in the operation of which said machine the element of cha
does not enter, and which is used exclusively for any of the follow
purposes—to-wit : For conducting a pay telephone, for musical, weight
or other similar purposes, or for disposing of cigars in which one or m
cigars are sold with each nickel deposited in the slot machine or det
that operates on the nickel-in-the-slot principle, or for the disposing
chewing gum or articles of merchandise other than cigarettes and
kanicalioe liquors.

2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby
pealed.