Title 5 — Criminal Offenses

(a) In their construction of the statutes prohibiting gaming, the judges of the several courts in this state shall construe the statutes liberally, with a view of preventing persons from evading the penalty of the law by changing of the name or the invention of new names or devic…

A.C.A. § 5-66-102Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) A person commits the offense of keeping a gambling house if the person:(1) Keeps, conducts, or operates, or who is interested directly or indirectly in keeping, conducting, or operating any gambling house or place where gambling is carried on;(2) Sets up, keeps, or exhibits o…

(a) It is unlawful for a person to set up, keep, or exhibit any gaming table or gambling device, commonly called “A. B. C.”, “E. O.”, roulette, or rouge et noir, any faro bank, or any other gaming table or gambling device, or bank of the like or similar kind, or of any other desc…

(a) It is unlawful for any person in any way, either directly or indirectly, to be:(1) Interested or concerned in any gaming prohibited by § 5-66-104, either by furnishing money or another article for the purpose of carrying on gaming; or(2) Interested in the loss or gain of gami…

(a) It is unlawful for any person to bet any money or other valuable thing or any representative of any thing that is esteemed of value on any game prohibited by § 5-66-104. (b) Upon conviction, a person who violates this section is guilty of a violation and shall be fined in any…

(a) It is unlawful for any owner or occupant of any house, outbuilding, or other building or any steamboat, or other vessel to knowingly permit or suffer any games, tables, or banks mentioned in § 5-66-104 or permit or suffer any kind of gaming under any name, to be carried on or…

A.C.A. § 5-66-108Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

A.C.A. § 5-66-109Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) If a person sets up or exhibits, causes to be set up or exhibited, or aids or assists in setting up or exhibiting in the state any gaming device commonly known and designated as “keno” or any similar device by any other name or without a name, upon conviction the person is gu…

(a) (1) Any coin-operated pinball machine or other device that is designed so that more than one (1) coin can be inserted so as to give the player additional odds in making a high score or winning an additional free game is unlawful.(2) The operation of the coin-operated pinball …

If a person bets any money or any valuable thing on any game of brag, bluff, poker, seven-up, three-up, twenty-one, vingt-et-un, thirteen cards, the odd trick, forty-five, whist, or at any other game of cards known by any name now known to the law or with any other or new name or…

(a) If a person bets any money or any valuable thing on any game of hazard or skill, upon conviction he or she is guilty of a violation and shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00). (b) In prosecuting under subsection…

(a) (1) It is unlawful for any person, partnership, or corporation to receive or transmit information in the State of Arkansas relating to football, baseball, basketball, hockey, polo, tennis, horse racing, boxing, or any other sport or game for the purpose of gaming.(2) This sec…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Participant” means any:(A) Professional or amateur baseball, football, basketball, hockey, polo, tennis, or other athletic player;(B) Boxer;(C) Jockey, driver, groom, or other person participating or expecting to participate in a horse race, inclu…

(a) It is unlawful to directly or indirectly bet in this state, by selling or buying pools or otherwise, any money or other valuable thing, on any horse race of any kind whether had or run in this state or out of this state. (b) (1) Upon conviction, a person who violates subsecti…

(a) (1) It is unlawful for any person, either for himself or herself or as agent or employee of another person, to place, offer, or agree to place, either in person or by messenger, telephone, or telegraph, a wager on behalf of another person, for a consideration paid or to be pa…

(a) Except as authorized under the Charitable Bingo and Raffles Enabling Act, § 23-114-101 et seq., it is unlawful for a person to:(1) Keep an office, room, or place for the sale or disposition of a lottery ticket or slip, policy ticket or slip, gift concert ticket or slip, or li…

(a) (1) Any person who in this state, directly or indirectly, sets up, promotes, engages in, or in any manner participates in any plan, scheme, device, or other means, either alone or in concert with any other person, firm, or corporation, either within or without the State of Ar…

This chapter does not apply to a lottery under the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery Act, § 23-115-101 et seq.