§ 18-41. Unlawful games and betting.  


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  • If any person shall play at any tavern, inn, store for the retailing of spirituous liquors or in any house used as a place of gaming, barn, kitchen, stable or other outhouse, street, highway, open wood, race field or open place at any game with cards or dice, any gaming table, commonly called A, B, C, or E, O, or any gaming table known or distinguished by any other letters or by any figures, any roley-poley table, rouge et noir, any faro bank or any other table or bank of the same or the like kind under any denomination whatsoever, except the games of billiards, bowls, backgammon, chess, draughts or whist when there is no betting on any such game of billiards, bowls, backgammon, chess, draughts or whist, or shall bet on the sides or hands of such as do game, upon being convicted thereof, shall be subject to punishment as provided in section 1-15 of this Code.

State law reference

Similar provisions, S.C. Code 1976, § 16-19-40.