Chap. 323.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 4676 of the Code of Virginia,
as amended, relating to keeping gaming tables, et cetera, and for forfeiture
thereof, to provide that the court may award certain tables and other para-
phernalia to charitable organizations or war recreation centers. [S 149]

Approved March 29, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section forty-six hundred seventy-six of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows :

Section 4676. Keeping gaming bank, gaming tables, et cetera, how
punished; seizure of money, tables, et cetera; money to be forfeited;
tables, et cetera, how disposed of.—If any person keep or exhibit, for the
purpose of gaming, any gaming table or bank of any name or description
whatever, or any table or bank used for gaming which has no name, wheel
of fortune or slot machine, any pigeon-hole table or Jennie Lynn table,
whether the game or table be played with cards, dice or otherwise, or be
a partner or concerned in interest in the keeping or exhibiting such table
or bank, he shall be confined in jail not less than two nor more than twelve
months, and fined not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand
dollars. Any such table, bank or wheel of fortune, and all the money,
stakes or exhibits to allure persons to bet at such table, bank or wheel,
may be seized by order of the court, or under warrant of a justice, and the
money so seized shall be forfeited, one-half to the person making the
seizure, and the other half to the Commonwealth, and the table, bank,
machine or wheel shall be burned ; provided that when any billiard or pool
table or other paraphernalia, not inherently gambling paraphernalia, is so
seized, the court may, in its discretion, award the same to some charitable
organization or war recreation center, upon condition that it be used only
for the purpose of recreation.