§1178 — Title 15 Commerce and Trade | U.S. Code

Summary

The rules here do not apply to three kinds of machines. One is machines made mainly for parimutuel betting at racetracks. Another is mechanical amusement devices (like coin bowling, shuffleboard, pinball, or mechanical guns) that are not made mainly for gambling and that do not give or make someone entitled to money or property by chance. The third is claw, crane, or digger machines that are not coin-operated, are run by a crank, and are made mainly for carnivals or county or State fairs.

Title 15, §1178

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None of the provisions of this chapter shall be construed to apply—

(1)to any machine or mechanical device designed and manufactured primarily for use at a racetrack in connection with parimutuel betting,

(2)to any machine or mechanical device, such as a coin-operated bowling alley, shuffleboard, marble machine (a so-called pinball machine), or mechanical gun, which is not designed and manufactured primarily for use in connection with gambling, and (A) which when operated does not deliver, as a result of the application of an element of chance, any money or property, or (B) by the operation of which a person may not become entitled to receive, as the result of the application of an element of chance, any money or property, or

(3)to any so-called claw, crane, or digger machine and similar devices which are not operated by coin, are actuated by a crank, and are designed and manufactured primarily for use at carnivals or county or State fairs.

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Effective Date

Section effective on sixtieth day after Oct. 18, 1962, see section 7 of Pub. L. 87–840, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1962 Amendment note under section 1171 of this title.

§1178 Nonapplicability of chapter to certain machines and devices

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Title 15, §1178

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