Pools, policy or lotteries.
Indianapolis-Marion County Revised Code § 351-2
in effectSec. 351-2. - Pools, policy or lotteries.
(a) No person shall, directly or indirectly, keep, occupy, use, rent, lease or permit the use of any street, park or other public place, or any private vacant land, tent, place or structure in the city, upon which he, or any other person acting for him or with his knowledge, uses or controls any device, table or apparatus for and in any scheme conducted as a lottery, or for pool or policy playing, or for the purchase, sale, exchange or redemption at any such places of what are commonly called lottery, pool or policy tickets, which tickets are to be used by him for his participation in or in the conduct of a policy game, pool or lottery in the city.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to receive money or any other valuable consideration as the owner, operator or agent of any activity prohibited by subsection (a), or to pay anything for the privilege of playing or participating in any lottery, pool or policy scheme by means of tickets or any writing, paper or documents to be used therein in the nature of a bet, wager or insurance for the chance of winning anything of value, dependent upon the drawing or drawn numbers of any lottery, pool or policy game, or based on the outcome, real or fictitious, of any race or of any event or combination of events, athletic or otherwise.
(c) It shall be unlawful for any person, except a police or other public officer so acting in the course of his duties, to have in his possession or control any ticket, slip, sheet, writing, paper, print, numbers or device to be used by him in either operating or participating in any pool, policy or lottery scheme, or which were purchased by or for him as representing or being a record of any chance, shoe or interest so held by him or for his benefit and to be used by or for him for participation in numbers sold, drawn or to be drawn, or otherwise determined, in a scheme which is commonly called "policy" or "pool," or upon the outcome of a race or athletic event.
(d) It shall be unlawful for any person, except a police officer in the line of duty, to possess any slip, sheet, ticket or record containing information thereon as to when, where and how such ticket is to be so used by him in the nature of a bet, wager, insurance or chance of winning any kind of reward or prize, based upon the drawing or drawn numbers or symbols, and dependent upon the outcome of any race, athletic game or event, or on the drawing for the prizes or awards in any public or private lottery, pool or policy game operated in any manner in the city.
(Code 1975, § 20-163)
Source: Consolidated City of Indianapolis and Marion County, Revised Code (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/in/indianapolis_-_marion_county/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TITIIPUORSA_CH351GA_S351-2POPOLOFetched: 10/27/2026