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PUBLIC LAW 8 5-JUNE 29, 1953 ASSAULT ON POLICE OFFICE
SEC. 205, Section 432 of the Revised Statutes, relating to the District of Columbia, as amended (D. C. Code, sec. 22-505), is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 432. (a) Whoever without justifiable and excusable cause, assaults, resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any officer or member of any police force operating in the District of Columbia while engaged in or on account of the performance of his official duties, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. "(b) Whoever in the commission of any such acts uses a deadly or dangerous weapon shall be imprisoned not more than ten years." GAMBLING
SEC. 206. (a) Section 863(a) of the Act entitled "An Act to establish a code of law for the District of Columbia", approved March 3, 1901, as amended (D. C. Code, sec. 22-1502), is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 863a. If any person shall, within the District of Columbia, knowingly have in his possession or under his control, any record, notation, receipt, ticket, certificate, bill, slip, token, paper, or writing, current or not current, used or to be used in violating the provisions of sections 863, 865, or 869 of this Act, he shall, upon conviction of each such offense, be fined not more than $1,000 or be imprisoned for not more than one year, or both. For the purpose of this section, possession of any record, notation, receipt, ticket, certificate, bill, slip, token, paper, or writing shall be presumed to be knowing possession thereof." (b) Section 866 of such Act (D. C. Code, sec. 22-1505) is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 866. (a) Any house, building, vessel, shed, booth, shelter, vehicle, enclosure, room, lot, or other premises in the District of Columbia, used or to be used in violating the provisions of section 863 or 865 of this Act, shall be deemed 'gambling premises' for the purpose of this section. " (b) I t shall be unlawful for any person in the District of Columbia knowingly, as owner, lessee, agent, employee, operator, occupant, or otherwise, to maintain or aid or permit the maintaining of any gambling premises. "(c) All moneys, vehicles, furnishings, fixtures, equipment, stock (including, without limitation, furnishings and fixtures adaptable to nongambling uses, and equipment and stock for printing, recording, computing, transporting, safekeeping, or communication), or other things of value used or to be used— "(1) in carrying on or conducting any lottery, or the game or device commonly known as a policy lottery or policy, contrary to the provisions of section 863 of this Act; " (2) in setting up or keeping any gaming table, bank, or device contrary to the provisions of section 865 of this Act; or "(3) in maintaining any gambling premises, shall be subject to seizure by any member of the Metropolitan Police force or the United States Park Police, or the United States marshal, or any deputy marshal, for the District of Columbia, and shall, unless good cause is shown to the contrary by the owner, be forfeited to the District of Columbia by order of any court having jurisdiction, unless
52 Stat. 199.
D. C. Code 221501, 22-1504. Post, p. 96.
31 Stat. 1331.
D. C. Code 221501, 22-1504.
D. C. Code 221501. D. C. Code 221503.
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