Reference Title: internet gambling

AN ACT
AMENDING SECTION 13-3305, ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES; RELATING TO GAMBLING.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 13-3305, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

13-3305 . Betting and wagering; classification; definition

A. Subject to the exceptions contained in section 5-112, no A person may NOT engage for a fee, property, salary or reward in THE BUSINESS OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:

1. Accepting, recording or registering OR USING A COMMUNICATION FACILITY TO TRANSMIT OR RECEIVE any bet, purported bet, wager or purported wager . or engage for a fee, property, salary or reward in the business of

2. Selling OR USING A COMMUNICATION FACILITY TO TRANSMIT OR RECEIVE wagering pools or purported wagering pools with respect to the result or purported result of any race, sporting event, contest or other game of skill or chance or any other unknown or contingent future event or occurrence whatsoever.

B. A person shall not directly or indirectly knowingly accept for a fee, property, salary or reward anything of value from another to be transmitted or delivered for wagering or betting on the results of a race, sporting event, contest or other game of skill or chance or any other unknown or contingent future event or occurrence whatsoever conducted within or without this state or anything of value as reimbursement for the prior making of such a wager or bet on behalf of another person.

C. A person who violates this section is guilty of a class 6 felony.

D. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "COMMUNICATION FACILITY" MEANS INSTRUMENTS, PERSONNEL AND SERVICES, INCLUDING THE RECEIVING, FORWARDING OR DELIVERY OF COMMUNICATIONS, THAT ARE USED OR THAT ARE USEFUL IN THE TRANSMISSION OF WRITINGS, SIGNS, PICTURES AND SOUNDS OF ALL KINDS BY AID OF ANY WIRE, CABLE, SATELLITE OR OTHER LIKE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE POINTS OF ORIGIN AND RECEPTION OF THE TRANSMISSION.