A. Gambling or wagering at a cockfight is the aiding or abetting or participation in any game, contest, lottery, or contrivance, in any location or place where a cockfight is being conducted and whereby a person risks the loss of anything of value in order to realize a profit. B. Whoever commits the crime of gambling or wagering at a cockfight shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both. Upon a second and subsequent violation of this Section, the penalty shall be a fine of one thousand dollars, or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. C. Whoever conducts, finances, manages, supervises, directs, leases, or owns all or part of a business or the premises when such person has knowledge that gambling or wagering at a cockfight occurs shall be fined not more than twenty thousand dollars, or imprisoned with or without hard labor, for not more than five years, or both.
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