"Gambling paraphernalia" within the meaning of this chapter is hereby defined to include any table, apparatus, device, machine or article of any kind or description intended to be used for the purpose of gaming as defined by section 23-1. Money which shall be found on a table on which gaming is at the time being conducted shall be gambling paraphernalia within the meaning of this chapter. The possession of gambling paraphernalia as herein defined shall be a violation of this chapter. All gambling paraphernalia within the territorial limits of the county, as herein defined, and all money, currency or cash, whether gambling paraphernalia within the definition of this section or not, which is found to be used in betting or paying off bets or otherwise used in connection with gambling in violation of this section, or in violation of any other law of Montgomery County or the State of Maryland pertaining to gaming or gambling, shall be subject to seizure by the law officers of the county, and, upon conviction of the owner or possessor of such paraphernalia, money, currency or cash, the paraphernalia, money, currency or cash, shall be forfeited to the county and disposed of in accordance with the order of the court having jurisdiction to try violations of this chapter. The court is hereby authorized in its discretion to direct the sale of such paraphernalia and the payment of the proceeds into the police fund of the county, or, if such paraphernalia consists of money, the payment of the same directly into such fund. (Mont. Co. Code 1965, § 10-3; 1924, ch. 483, § 243C; 1956, ch. 80, § 1.)
