{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-3a-3a-502","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 3A, § 3A-502","heading":"Certain acts and games prohibited - Definitions","body":"A. Any person who owns or operates any amusement game or\n\ncarnival game, whether skill or chance, coin, token or direct pay-\n\nto-play, and who knowingly and intentionally fraudulently obtains\n\nmoney or other items of value from another by means of any hidden\n\nmechanical device, deception or deceptive objects, manipulation,\n\nsleight-of-hand, trickery, obstruction, randomly selected or\n\nenforced rules, whether posted or verbalized, or by any other\n\nfraudulent means with intent to diminish or defeat the opportunity\n\nof any patron or player to win a prize or accomplish the intended\n\nobject of the game, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a\n\nmisdemeanor punishable pursuant to Section 5 of this act.\n\nB. Any person who knowingly and intentionally owns, operates,\n\nor as a carnival owner or employee, knowingly and intentionally\n\nbooks-in, contracts, or provides space for, any game at a fair or\n\ncarnival of a type known as razzle, flat store, or alibi game, or\n\ngames operated in a manner violating the Amusement and Carnival\n\nGames Act, upon conviction, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor\n\npunishable pursuant to Section 5 of this act, with said game to be\n\nconfiscated as contraband.\n\nC. As used in the Amusement and Carnival Games Act:\n\n1. \"Razzle\" or \"flat store\" means any game, whether skill or\n\nchance, in which the player pays money or other valuable\n\nconsideration in return for the opportunity to make successive\n\nattempts to obtain points by use of dice, darts, marbles, numbered\n\nping-pong balls, pins, blocks, conversion charts or other\n\nimplements, and where such points are accumulated in successive\n\ngames by the player toward a total number of points, miles or yards,\n\nor other increments, determined by the game operator, which is\n\nrequired for the player to win a prize or other valuable\n\nconsideration; and\n\n2. \"Alibi game\" means any game, whether skill or chance, in\n\nwhich the game operator controls or affects the outcome of the game,\n\nwinners or losers, by enforcing foul lines, release lines, and rules\n\nselected and enforced randomly, and at will, whether posted or\n\nverbalized, during actual pay-to-play by the player, while not\n\nenforcing these same foul lines, release lines and rules during the\n\nplayer's free shots or free plays allowed during demonstration of\n\nhow the game is played, as an enticement to the player. Further,\n\n\"alibi game\" means any game, whether skill or chance, in which the\n\noperator controls or affects the outcome of the game, winners or\n\nlosers, by off-setting or manipulating balls, pins, bottles or other\n\nimplements, or any other means of trickery or deception to cheat or\n\ndefeat the player, or void the player's win.","path":["OK Code","Title 3A"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os3A.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"f3a7af201dd274f90d5c5361d3d46a1af11349a268668c0bebb7e95e843624eb","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-3a-3a-501","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-3a-3a-503"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}