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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 1175. Specific jurisdictions within which manufacturing, repairing, selling, possessing, etc., prohibited; exceptions
(a) General rule
It shall be unlawful to manufacture, recondition, repair, sell,
transport, possess, or use any gambling device in the District of
Columbia, in any possession of the United States, within Indian
country as defined in section 1151 of title 18 or within the
special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States
as defined in section 7 of title 18, including on a vessel
documented under chapter 121 of title 46 or documented under the
laws of a foreign country.
(b) Exception
(1) In general
Except for a voyage or a segment of a voyage that begins and
ends in the State of Hawaii, or as provided in paragraph (2),
this section does not prohibit -
(A) the repair, transport, possession, or use of a gambling
device on a vessel that is not within the boundaries of any
State or possession of the United States;
(B) the transport or possession, on a voyage, of a gambling
device on a vessel that is within the boundaries of any State
or possession of the United States, if -
(i) use of the gambling device on a portion of that voyage
is, by reason of subparagraph (A), not a violation of this
section; and
(ii) the gambling device remains on board that vessel while
the vessel is within the boundaries of that State or
possession; or
(C) the repair, transport, possession, or use of a gambling
device on a vessel on a voyage that begins in the State of
Indiana and that does not leave the territorial jurisdiction of
that State, including such a voyage on Lake Michigan.
(2) Application to certain voyages
(A) General rule
Paragraph (1)(A) does not apply to the repair or use of a
gambling device on a vessel that is on a voyage or segment of a
voyage described in subparagraph (B) of this paragraph if the
State or possession of the United States in which the voyage or
segment begins and ends has enacted a statute the terms of
which prohibit that repair or use on that voyage or segment.
(B) Voyage and segment described
A voyage or segment of a voyage referred to in subparagraph
(A) is a voyage or segment, respectively -
(i) that begins and ends in the same State or possession of
the United States, and
(ii) during which the vessel does not make an intervening
stop within the boundaries of another State or possession of
the United States or a foreign country.
(C) Exclusion of certain voyages and segments
Except for a voyage or segment of a voyage that occurs within
the boundaries of the State of Hawaii, a voyage or segment of a
voyage is not described in subparagraph (B) if it includes or
consists of a segment -
(i) that begins and ends in the same State;
(ii) that is part of a voyage to another State or to a
foreign country; and
(iii) in which the vessel reaches the other State or
foreign country within 3 days after leaving the State in
which it begins.
(c) Exception for Alaska
(1) With respect to a vessel operating in Alaska, this section
does not prohibit, nor may the State of Alaska make it a violation
of law for there to occur, the repair, transport, possession, or
use of any gambling device on board a vessel which provides
sleeping accommodations for all of its passengers and that is on a
voyage or segment of a voyage described in paragraph (2), except
that such State may, within its boundaries -
(A) prohibit the use of a gambling device on a vessel while it
is docked or anchored or while it is operating within 3 nautical
miles of a port at which it is scheduled to call; and
(B) require the gambling devices to remain on board the vessel.
(2) A voyage referred to in paragraph (1) is a voyage that -
(A) includes a stop in Canada or in a State other than the
State of Alaska;
(B) includes stops in at least 2 different ports situated in
the State of Alaska; and
(C) is of at least 60 hours duration.
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