44-30-825. Cheating game and devices - penalty.

Statute text

(1) It is unlawful for a person playing a licensed game in licensed gaming premises to:

(a) Knowingly conduct, carry on, operate, or deal or allow to be conducted, carried on, operated, or dealt any cheating or thieving game or device; or

(b) Knowingly deal, conduct, carry on, operate, or expose for play a physical or electronic version of a game played with physical or electronic cards or a mechanical device, or any combination of games or devices, that have been marked or tampered with or placed in a condition or operated in a manner that tends to deceive the public or alter the normal random selection of characteristics or the normal chance of the game, or that could determine or alter the result of the game.

(2) A person violating any provision of this section commits a class 6 felony and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-401.

History

Source: L. 2018: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 18-034), ch. 14, p. 214, 2, effective October 1. L. 2023: (2) amended, (HB 23-1293), ch. 298, p. 1798, 72, effective October 1.

Annotations

Editor's note: (1) This section is similar to former 12-47.1-826 as it existed prior to 2018.

(2) Section 77 of chapter 298 (HB 23-1293), Session Laws of Colorado 2023, provides that the act changing this section applies to offenses committed on or after October 1, 2023.