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Criminal Offenses > Organized Criminal Gambling
Short Summary
The provided legal document content pertains to the State of Rhode Island General Laws governing Organized Criminal Gambling. It defines ‘gambling’ to include various activities such as pool-selling, bookmaking, maintaining slot machines, roulette wheels or dice tables, and conducting lotteries, Policy, Bolita, or numbers games or selling chances in them. The document further defines ‘organized criminal gambling business’ as a gambling business involving three or more persons who conduct, finance, manage, supervise, direct, operate, or own all or part of the business. The business must have been in substantially continuous operation for a period exceeding fifteen days, or conducted operations on at least two days in each of two consecutive weeks, or have a combined gross revenue of at least one thousand dollars in any single day, or have entered into a total of at least one hundred gambling transactions in any single day. However, the term ‘organized criminal gambling business’ does not include betting specifically authorized by chapter 4 of title 41 or any act in amendment of that chapter, nor any form of gambling otherwise licensed or permitted by specific statutory enactment. The document does not specify the penalties for non-compliance or violation of its provisions. Whoever shall conduct, finance, manage, supervise, direct or own all or part of an organized criminal gambling business, as defined in this chapter, shall be imprisoned for not more than five (5) years and fined not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000). History of Section. P.L. 1979, ch. 127, 1.
Whom does it apply to?
Individuals involved in organized criminal gambling businesses
What does it govern?
Organized Criminal Gambling
What are exemptions?
Betting specifically authorized by chapter 4 of title 41 or any act in amendment of that chapter, and any form of gambling otherwise licensed or permitted by specific statutory enactment
What are the Penalties?
Imprisonment for not more than five (5) years and a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000)
Jurisdiction
Rhode Island