§ 750.308Gaming house; search warrant; seizure of apparatus and material; arrest

Sec. 308.
     If a person makes oath before a judge that he or she has probable cause to believe and does
 believe that a house or other building, room, or place is used as and for a common gaming
 house, for gaming for money or other property, or is occupied, used, or kept for promoting a
 lottery, or for the sale of lottery tickets, or for promoting the game known as a policy lottery or
 policy, or for the buying or selling of pools or registering of bets upon any race, game, contest,
 act, or event, and that persons resort thereto for any such purpose, the judge, whether the
 names of the persons last mentioned are known to the complainant or not, shall, if he or she be
 satisfied there is reasonable cause for such belief, issue a warrant commanding the sheriff or
 deputy sheriff or any constable or police officer to enter and search such house, building,


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 room, or place, and if any lottery, policy or pool tickets, slips, checks, manifold books or
 sheets, memoranda of any bet, or other implements, apparatus, or material of any form of
 gaming be found in the place, to take into his or her custody all the implements, apparatus, or
 material of gaming, including any articles, equipment, furniture, loud speakers and amplifying
 apparatus, adding machines, calculators, money changers and boxes, and money found therein
 or in or on gambling apparatus, or material used in connection with or the promotion of
 gambling or a gambling place; and upon the finding of such apparatus and material of any
 form of gaming, the officers shall be authorized to arrest the keepers of the place, all persons
 in any way assisting in keeping the same, whether as capper, tout, guard, doorkeep, lookout, or
 otherwise, and all persons who are there found, and to keep the persons, implements,
 apparatus, or material of gaming, including any punch board prizes, articles, equipment,
 furniture, loud speakers and amplifying apparatus, adding machines, calculators, money
 changers and boxes, and money found therein or in or on gambling apparatus, or material used
 in connection with or the promotion of gambling or a gambling place, so that they may be
 forthcoming before some court or magistrate to be dealt with according to law. The provisions
 of law relative to destroying or other disposition of gaming articles shall apply to all articles
 and property seized as herein provided.