Any municipality may suppress gambling, gaming and gambling houses, lotteries and all fraudulent devices and practices used for obtaining money or property. Any municipality may enter any place where any such activity is practiced or allowed to be practiced, and seize and destroy any instrument, device or thing used for such purpose found therein. The provisions of this section do not apply to any lottery owned and operated by this state.

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Source: SL 1890, ch 37, art V, § 1, subdiv 34; RPolC 1903, § 1229, subdiv 34; SL 1907, ch 94; SL 1913, ch 119, § 53, subdiv 34; RC 1919, § 6169 (57); SDC 1939, § 45.0201 (29); SL 1987, ch 313, § 41.