18 U.S.C. § 1301 — Importing or transporting lottery tickets
submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 209 words · no verdicts yet
This section makes certain activities involving lottery tickets and related materials in interstate or foreign commerce criminal offenses. A person who violates it may be fined, imprisoned for up to two years, or both.
A person commits an offense if the person does any of the following: brings into the United States, intending to dispose of it, any paper, certificate, or instrument that claims to be or represent a ticket, chance, share, or interest in a lottery, gift enterprise, or similar scheme offering prizes based wholly or partly on chance; knowingly deposits such an item with an express company or other common carrier for transportation; or carries it in interstate or foreign commerce. The same applies to an advertisement for such a scheme or a list of prizes drawn or awarded through it.
A person also commits an offense if, while in the business of obtaining for someone in one State a ticket, chance, share, or interest in a lottery, gift enterprise, or similar scheme conducted by another State, the person knowingly sends information in interstate or foreign commerce to be used to obtain it. This does not apply when that business is allowed by an agreement between the States involved or their appropriate authorities.
A person also commits an offense by knowingly taking or receiving any such paper, certificate, instrument, advertisement, or prize list after it has been brought into the United States, deposited for transportation, or transported as described above.
The person may be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than 2 years, or both.
Whoever brings into the United States for the purpose of disposing of the same, or knowingly deposits with any express company or other common carrier for carriage, or carries in interstate or foreign commerce any paper, certificate, or instrument purporting to be or to represent a ticket, chance, share, or interest in or dependent upon the event of a lottery, gift enterprise, or similar scheme, offering prizes dependent in whole or in part upon lot or chance, or any advertisement of, or list of the prizes drawn or awarded by means of, any such lottery, gift enterprise, or similar scheme; or, being engaged in the business of procuring for a person in 1 State such a ticket, chance, share, or interest in a lottery, gift,1 enterprise or similar scheme conducted by another State (unless that business is permitted under an agreement between the States in question or appropriate authorities of those States), knowingly transmits in interstate or foreign commerce information to be used for the purpose of procuring such a ticket, chance, share, or interest; or knowingly takes or receives any such paper, certificate, instrument, advertisement, or list so brought, deposited, or transported, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 762; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXII, § 320905, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2126, 2147.)
- 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 762
- 1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 2126, 2147
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 645 on 1948-06-25.
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