§21-970.

§21-970.
   
   Any person who sets up, operates or conducts, or who permits to be set
   up, operated and conducted, in or about any place of business, or in
   or about any place, whether as owner, employee or agent, any slot
   machine for the purpose of having or allowing same to be played by
   others for money, property, tangible or intangible, coin, currency,
   check, chip, token, credit, or any representative of value or a thing
   of value, except amusement or entertainment, or who sets up, operates
   or conducts, or who permits to be set up, operated or conducted, in or
   about any place of business, or in or about any place, whether as
   owner, employee or agent, any amusement machine, instrument, mechanism
   or device within three hundred (300) feet of any public school in this
   state, said distance to be measured from the school building, shall be
   deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished
   by a fine of not less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) nor more than One
   Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail
   for a term of not more than sixty (60) days, or by both such fine and
   imprisonment.