As Amended
SEC. 97-33-25. Gambling; pool-selling; exceptions.
If any person shall sell or buy, either directly or indirectly, any chance in what is commonly called pool, upon any event whatever, or shall in any manner engage in such business or pastime, he shall be fined not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or shall be imprisoned in the county jail not more than ninety (90) days; provided, however, this section shall not apply to betting, gaming or wagering:
(a) On a cruise vessel as defined in Section 27-109-1 whenever such vessel is in the waters within the State of Mississippi, which lie adjacent to the State of Mississippi south of the three (3) most southern counties in the State of Mississippi, and in which the registered voters of the county in which the port is located have not voted to prohibit such betting, gaming or wagering on cruise vessels as provided in Section 19-3-79;
(b) On a vessel as defined in Section 27-109-1 whenever such vessel is on the Mississippi River or navigable waters within any county bordering on the Mississippi River, and in which the registered voters of the county in which the port is located have not voted to prohibit such betting, gaming or wagering on vessels as provided in Section 19-3-79; or
(c) That is legal under the laws of the State of Mississippi.
SOURCES: Codes, 1892, Sec. 1131; 1906, Sec. 1213; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 943; 1930, Sec. 970; 1942, Sec. 2200; Laws, 1989, ch. 481, Sec. 4; 1990, ch. 449, Sec. 7; 1990, ch. 573, Sec. 13; 1990 Ex Sess, ch. 45 Sec. 151, eff from and after passage (approved June 29, 1990).