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§3A-502.
§3A-502.
A. Any person who owns or operates any amusement game or carnival
game, whether skill or chance, coin, token or direct pay-to-play, and
who knowingly and intentionally fraudulently obtains money or other
items of value from another by means of any hidden mechanical device,
deception or deceptive objects, manipulation, sleight-of-hand,
trickery, obstruction, randomly selected or enforced rules, whether
posted or verbalized, or by any other fraudulent means with intent to
diminish or defeat the opportunity of any patron or player to win a
prize or accomplish the intended object of the game, upon conviction,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable pursuant to Section 5 of
this act.
B. Any person who knowingly and intentionally owns, operates, or as a
carnival owner or employee, knowingly and intentionally books-in,
contracts, or provides space for, any game at a fair or carnival of a
type known as razzle, flat store, or alibi game, or games operated in
a manner violating the Amusement and Carnival Games Act, upon
conviction, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable pursuant to
Section 5 of this act, with said game to be confiscated as contraband.
C. As used in the Amusement and Carnival Games Act:
1. "Razzle" or "flat store" means any game, whether skill or chance,
in which the player pays money or other valuable consideration in
return for the opportunity to make successive attempts to obtain
points by use of dice, darts, marbles, numbered ping-pong balls, pins,
blocks, conversion charts or other implements, and where such points
are accumulated in successive games by the player toward a total
number of points, miles or yards, or other increments, determined by
the game operator, which is required for the player to win a prize or
other valuable consideration; and
2. "Alibi game" means any game, whether skill or chance, in which the
game operator controls or affects the outcome of the game, winners or
losers, by enforcing foul lines, release lines, and rules selected and
enforced randomly, and at will, whether posted or verbalized, during
actual pay-to-play by the player, while not enforcing these same foul
lines, release lines and rules during the player's free shots or free
plays allowed during demonstration of how the game is played, as an
enticement to the player. Further, "alibi game" means any game,
whether skill or chance, in which the operator controls or affects the
outcome of the game, winners or losers, by off-setting or manipulating
balls, pins, bottles or other implements, or any other means of
trickery or deception to cheat or defeat the player, or void the
player's win.
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