§ 6-2-113 — Prohibition on gaming and liquor sales

Arkansas § 6-2-113

• Jurisdiction: Arkansas
• Title: 6

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(a) To protect the youth assembled at institutions organized under the provisions of this chapter, while removed from the customary restraints of home and parental watch-care, it is declared to be a misdemeanor to entice any student of such institution into the practice of gaming or to furnish any student any device or instrument for gaming or any intoxicating liquors of any kind whatever. (b) If the institution is located in a city or any incorporated town or village where a majority of the legal voters embraced in the territory within three (3) miles of the institution so decide by petition to the county court, then any billiard room, bowling alley, or race course, or any device or instrument for gaming, or any brothel or house of ill fame, or theatrical or circus exhibition, or public place where intoxicating liquors are either given away or sold, except for mechanical or medicinal purposes, within three (3) miles of the site of the institution shall be prohibited by the court. (c) Any person who violates such regulation established by the court shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.

Legislative History

Acts 1871, No. 42, § 7; C. & M. Dig., § 1777; A.S.A. 1947, § 64-1414; Acts 2005, No. 1994, § 384.