Coin Slot Magazine - #085 - 1982 - March [International Arcade Museum]
Legislative
UPDATE
STATE OF
CONNECTICUT
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Sec. 53-278c. Seizure of gambling devices. Penalties
for possession,
sale,
etc. of gambling devices or
records, (a) All gambling devices are common nuisances
and, if found in a place known or suspected to be a
gambling premise, are subject to seizure, immediately
Sec. 53-278a. Gambling:
Definitions. As used in
section 53-278a to 53-278g, inclusive:
(2) "Gambling" means risking any money, credit, deposit
or other thing of value for gain contingent in whole or in
part upon lot, chance or the operation of a gambling
device, but does not include: Legal contests pf skill, speed,
strength or endurance in which awards are made only to
entrants or the owners of entries; legal business transact
ions which are valid under the law of contracts; activity
legal under the provisions of sections 7-169 to 7-1861,
inclusive; any lottery or contest conducted by or under the
authority of any state of the United States, commonwealth
of Puerto Rico or any possession or territory of the United
States; and other acts or transactions expressly authorized
by law on or after October 1, 1973;
(3) "Professional gambling" means accepting or offering
to accept, for profit, money, credits, deposits or other
upon detection, by any peace officer, who shall hold the
same subject to confiscation and destruction by order of a
court having jurisdiction.
(b) No property right in any such gambling device shall
exist or be recognized in any person, except the posses
sory right of officers enforcing sections 53-278a to 53-
278g, inclusive.
(c) All furnishings, fixtures, equipment and stock, includ
ing without limitation furnishings and fixtures adaptable to
non gambling uses and equipment and stock for printing,
recording, computing, transporting, safekeeping or, except
as otherwise provided in subsection (c) of section 53-
278d, communication, used in connection with profes
sional gambling or any gambling device, shall be subject to
seizure, immediately upon detection, by any peace officer,
and shall, unless good cause is shown to the contrary by
the owner, be ordered by the court to be destroyed or
things of value risked in gambling, or any claim thereon or
disposed of to a charitable or educational institution or to a
interest therein. Without limiting the generality of this
govermental agency or institution, provided, if such prop
definition, the following shall be included: Pool-selling and
bookmaking; maintain slot machines, one-ball machines
or variants thereof, pinball machines, which award anything
other than an immediate and unrecorded right of replay,
roulette wheels, dice tables, or money or merchandise,
pushcards, punchboards, jars or spindles, in any place
accessible to the public; and except as provided in sections
7-169 to 7-186m, conducting lotteries, gift enterprises,
disposal or sale of property by lottery or hazard or policy or
numbers games, or selling chances therein; and the
following shall be presumed to be included: Conducting
any banking game played with cards, dice or counters, or
accepting any fixed share of the stakes therein;
(4) "Gambling device" means any device or mechanism
by the operation of which a right to money, credits, deposits
or other things of value may be created, as the result of the
operation of an element of chance; any device or mechan
ism which, when operated for a consideration, does not
return the same value or thing of value for the same
consideration, upon each operation thereof; any device,
mechanism, furniture or fixture designed primarily for use
in connection with professional gambling; and any sub-
assembly or essential part designed or intended for use in
connection with any such device, mechanism, furniture,
fixture, construction or installation, provided an immediate
and unrecorded right of replay mechanically conferred on
players of pinball machines and similar amusement devices
shall be presumed to be without value;
erty is money or valuable prize, it shall become the
property of the state; except any such property which at
the time of such order is subject to a bona fide mortgage,
assignment of lease or rent, lien or security interest shall
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