24. Improper management of house of public resort

Any person who being the keeper of any house licensed under any written law as a public house or as a retail liquor shop or which is used as a place of public entertainment or public resort —

knowingly permits any unlawful games or gaming therein;

knowingly permits prostitutes or persons of notoriously bad character or drunken and disorderly persons to assemble or continue in or upon the person’s premises;

knowingly allows the deposit therein of goods having reasonable cause to believe them to be stolen; or

does or permits any act in contravention of the person’s licence,shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months, and to the forfeiture of the person’s licence, if any.