Definition of bookmaking.

Iowa Code § 725.13, under VICE.

Iowa Code § 725.13

“Bookmaking” means advancing gambling activity by accepting bets upon the outcome of future contingent events as a business other than as permitted in chapters 99B , 99D , 99E , and 99F . These events include but are not limited to the results of a trial or contest of skill, speed, power, or endurance of a person or beast or between persons, beasts, fowl, motor vehicles, or mechanical apparatus or upon the result of any chance, casualty, unknown, or contingent event. 83 Acts, ch 187, §35 ; 89 Acts, ch 67, §27 ; 2019 Acts, ch 132, §41, 45, 46