Coin Slot Magazine - #053 - 1979 - July [International Arcade Museum]
§38-1101
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CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
Contest of chance shall
mean any
contest, game, gaming
scheme, or gaming device in which the outcome depends in a material
degree upon an element of chance, notwithstanding that skill of the
contestants may also be a factor therein;
(4) A person engages in gambling if he stakes or risks something of
value upon the outcome of a contest of chance or a future contingent
event not under his control or influence, upon an agreement or under
standing that he or someone else will receive something of value in the
event of a certain outcome, but does not include:
(a) A lawful business transaction; or
(b) Playing an amusement device or a coin-operated mechanical
game that confers only an immediate and unrecorded right of replay
not exchangeable for value?
(5) Gambling device shall mean any device, machine, parapherna
lia, or equipment that is used or usable in the playing phases of any
gambling activity, whether that activity consists of gambling between
persons or gambling by a person involving the playing of a machine.
Lottery tickets and other items used in the playing phases of lottery
schemes are not gambling devices within this definition;
(6) Lottery shall mean a gambling scheme in which (a) the players
pay or agree to pay something of value for chances, represented and
differentiated by numbers or by combinations of numbers or by some
other medium, one or more of which chances are to be designated the
winning ones, (b) the winning chances are to be determined by a
drawing or by some other method based on an element of chance, and
(c) the holders of the winning chances are to receive something of
value;
(7) Mutuel shall mean a form of lottery in which*the winning
chances or plays are not determined upon the basis of a drawing or
other act on the part of persons conducting or connected with the
scheme, but upon the basis of the outcome of future contingent events
otherwise unrelated to the particular scheme;
(8) Player shall mean a person over the age of majority who engages
in gambling solely as a contestant or bettor. A person who engages in
bookmaking. as defined in subdivision (2) of this section is not a
player;
(9) Private place shall mean a place to which the public does not
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(10) A person profits from gambling activity if, other than as a
form of credit or promise directly or indirectly contemplating transfer
of money or property or of any interest therein, or involving extension
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