{
 "citation": "14:90.2",
 "heading": "Gambling in public",
 "doc_id": "78700",
 "source_url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=78700",
 "classification": "M",
 "enacted_year": "1979",
 "last_amended_year": "1979",
 "penalties": [
  {
   "subsection": "C",
   "text": "Whoever commits the crime of gambling in public shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.",
   "los_min": "0",
   "los_max": "6M",
   "hard_labor": "",
   "benefits": "",
   "death": false,
   "condition": ""
  }
 ],
 "referenced_statutes": [],
 "text": "RS 14:90.2\n\n\u00a790.2. Gambling in public\n\nA. Gambling in public is the aiding or abetting or participation in any\ngame, contest, lottery, or contrivance, in any location or place open to the view\nof the public or the people at large, such as streets, highways, vacant lots,\nneutral grounds, alleyway, sidewalk, park, beach, parking lot, or condemned\nstructures whereby a person risks the loss of anything of value in order to\nrealize a profit.\n\nB. This Section shall not prohibit activities authorized under the\nCharitable Raffles, Bingo and Keno Licensing Law, nor shall it apply to bona\nfide fairs and festivals conducted for charitable purposes.\n\nC. Whoever commits the crime of gambling in public shall be fined not\nmore than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months,\nor both.\n\nAdded by Acts 1979, No. 754, \u00a71, eff. July 20, 1979."
}