No persons, association, or corporation
shall be liable to prosecution or conviction for violation of any provision of R.S. 14:90; however, this immunity shall not extend to any person or corporation knowingly conducting or participating in the conduct of any game of chance under any license obtained by any false pretense or statement made in any application for such license or otherwise, or possessing, selling, or disposing of shares, tickets, or rights to participate in, or permitting the conduct upon any premises owned by him or it of any game of chance conducted under any license known to him or it to have been obtained by any such false or fraudulent pretense or statement.
La. R.S. § 4:723