Commercial gambling

NMSA 1978, § 30-19-3 — under Article 19.

NMSA 1978, § 30-19-3

Commercial gambling consists of either: A. participating in the earnings of or operating a gambling place; B. receiving, recording or forwarding bets or offers to bet; C. possessing facilities with the intent to receive, record or forward bets or offers to bet; D. for gain, becoming a custodian of anything of value, bet or offered to be bet; E. conducting a lottery where both the consideration and the prize are money, or whoever with intent to conduct a lottery, possesses facilities to do so; or F. setting up for use, for the purpose of gambling, or collecting the proceeds of, any gambling device. Whoever commits commercial gambling is guilty of a fourth degree felony. History: 1953 Comp., § 40A-19-3, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 303, § 19-3.