Lotteries; buying tickets in state prohibited; applicability of section to games or lotteries authorized by Mississippi lottery law
Codes, 1892, § 1201; 1906, § 1279; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1011; 1930, § 1040; 1942, § 2272; Laws, 1992, ch. 388, § 1, eff from and after passage (approved April 27, 1992); Laws, 20…
If any person shall buy in this state any lottery ticket, whether the lottery be in or out of this state, or of or in any other state, territory, district, or country, he shall, on conviction, be fined not less than Five Dollars ($5.00) nor more than Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00), or be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding ten (10) days, or both.
This section shall not apply to the operation of any game or lottery authorized by Chapter 115, Title 27.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.