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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>67229</law_id><section_number>18.2-331</section_number><catch_line>Illegal possession, etc., of gambling device; penalty</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>18.2-338</reference><reference>4.1-226</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="18.2">Crimes and Offenses Generally</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="8">Crimes Involving Morals and Decency</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Gambling</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>A person is guilty of illegal <span class="dictionary">possession</span> of a gambling device when he manufactures, sells, transports, rents, gives away, places or possesses, or conducts or negotiates any transaction affecting or designed to affect ownership, <span class="dictionary">custody</span> or use of any gambling device, believing or having reason to believe that the same is to be used in the advancement of unlawful gambling activity. Violation of any provision of this section shall constitute a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7;&#xA7; 18.1-323, 18.1-329, 18.1-330; 1960, c. 358; 1962, c. 633; 1964, c. 371; 1975, cc. 14, 15.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
