TITLE 18

CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS

CHAPTER 38

GAMING

18-3801.  Gambling defined. "Gambling" means risking any money, credit, deposit or other thing of value for gain contingent in whole or in part upon lot, chance, the operation of a gambling device or the happening or outcome of an event, including a sporting event, the operation of casino gambling including, but not limited to, blackjack, craps, roulette, poker, bacarrat [baccarat] or keno, but does not include:

(1)  Bona fide contests of skill, speed, strength or endurance in which awards are made only to entrants or the owners of entrants; or

(2)  Bona fide business transactions which are valid under the law of contracts; or

(3)  Games that award only additional play; or

(4)  Merchant promotional contests and drawings conducted incidentally to bona fide nongaming business operations, if prizes are awarded without consideration being charged to participants; or

(5)  Other acts or transactions now or hereafter expressly authorized by law.

History:

[I.C., sec. 18-3801, as added by lst Ex. Session 1992, ch. 2, sec. 3, p. 5.]