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(A) in Indiana; or
(B) in a transaction directly involving
a person located in Indiana;
(2) engage in bookmaking:
(A) in Indiana; or
(B) in a transaction directly involving
a person located in Indiana;
(3) maintain, on an Internet site accessible
to residents of Indiana, the equivalent of:
(A) slot machines;
(B) one-ball machines or variants of
one-ball machines;
(C) pinball machines that award any-
thing other than an immediate and
unrecorded right of replay;
(D) roulette wheels;
(E) dice tables; or
(F) money or merchandise pushcards,
punchboards, jars, or spindles;
(4) conduct lotteries or policy or numbers
games or sell chances in lotteries or policy
or numbers games:
(A) in Indiana; or
(B) in a transaction directly involving
a person located in Indiana;
(5) conduct any banking or percentage
games played with the computer equiva-
lent of cards, dice, or counters, or accept
any fixed share of the stakes in those
games:
(A) in Indiana; or
(B) in a transaction directly involving
a person located in Indiana; or
(6) accept, or offer to accept, for profit,
money or other property risked in gam-
bling:
(A) in Indiana; or
(B) in a transaction directly involving
a person located in Indiana;
commits professional gambling over the Internet,
a Level 6 felony.
35-45-5-3.5. Possession of electronic gaming
device.
(a) Except as provided in subsection (c), a
person who possesses an electronic gaming device
commits a Class A infraction.
(b) A person who knowingly or intentionally
accepts or offers to accept for profit, money, or
other property risked in gambling on an elec-
tronic gaming device possessed by the person
commits maintaining a professional gambling
site, a Level 6 felony. However, the offense is a
Level 5 felony if the person has a prior unrelated
conviction under this subsection.
(c) Subsection (a) does not apply to a person
who:
(1) possesses an antique slot machine;
(2) restricts display and use of the antique
slot machine to the person’s private resi-
dence; and
(3) does not use the antique slot machine
for profit.
(d) As used in this section, “antique slot
machine” refers to a slot machine that is:
(1) at least forty (40) years old; and
(2) possessed and used for decorative, his-
toric, or nostalgic purposes.
35-45-5-4. Promoting professional gambling.
(a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and
(d), a person who:
(1) knowingly or intentionally owns, man-
ufactures, possesses, buys, sells, rents,
leases, repairs, or transports a gambling
device, or offers or solicits an interest in a
gambling device;
(2) before a race, game, contest, or event
on which gambling may be conducted,
knowingly or intentionally transmits or
receives gambling information by any
means, or knowingly or intentionally
installs or maintains equipment for the
transmission or receipt of gambling infor-
mation; or
(3) having control over the use of a place,
knowingly or intentionally permits another
person to use the place for professional
gambling;
commits promoting professional gambling, a
Level 6 felony. However, the offense is a Level
5 felony if the person has a prior unrelated con-
viction under this section.
(b) Subsection (a)(1) does not apply to a boat
manufacturer who:
(1) transports or possesses a gambling
device solely for the purpose of installing
the device in a boat that is to be sold and
