750.304 Selling pools and registering bets. Sec. 304. Any person or his or her agent or employee who, directly or indirectly, keeps, maintains, operates, or occupies any building or room or any part of a building or room or any place with apparatus, books, or any device for registering bets or buying or selling pools upon the result of a trial or contest of skill, speed or endurance or upon the result of a game, competition, political nomination, appointment, or election or any purported event of like character or who registers bets or buys or sells pools, or who is concerned in buying or selling pools or who knowingly permits any grounds or premises, owned, occupied, or controlled by him or her to be used for any of the purposes aforesaid, is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment for not more than 1 year or a fine of not more than $1,000.00. History: 1931, Act 328, Eff. Sept. 18, 1931 ;-- CL 1948, 750.304 ;-- Am. 2002, Act 672, Eff. Mar. 31, 2003 Former Law: See sections 3 and 11 of Act 176 of 1925, being CL 1929, §§ 9123 and 9131.
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