§ 18-7. Forfeiture of money, gambling devices, etc., seized from illegal gambling enterprise.

All money, gambling devices, office equipment and other personal property used in connection with an illegal gambling enterprise or activity, and all money, stakes and things of value received or proposed to be received by a winner in any illegal gambling transaction, which are lawfully seized by any law-enforcement officer or which shall lawfully come into such officer's custody shall be forfeited to the city by order of the court in which a conviction under this chapter is obtained. Such court shall order all money so forfeited to be paid over to the city and, by order, shall make such disposition of other property so forfeited as the court deems proper, including the award of such property to any city or state agency or charitable organization for lawful purposes; or, in case of the sale thereof, the proceeds therefrom to be paid over to the city. Such forfeiture shall not extinguish the rights of any person, without knowledge of the illegal use of such property, who is the lawful owner or who has a lien on the same which has been perfected as provided by law.

(Ord. No. 2258, § 11; Code 1961, § 19-11; Ord. No. 3095-83)

State Law reference— Similar provisions, Code of Virginia, § 19.2-386.30.

(Ord. No. 2258, § 11; Code 1961, § 19-11; Ord. No. 3095-83)

State law reference

Similar provisions, Code of Virginia, § 19.2-386.30.