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[CITE: 15USC1175]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
             CHAPTER 24--TRANSPORTATION OF GAMBLING DEVICES
 
Sec. 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.

(Jan. 2, 1951, ch. 1194, Sec. 5, 64 Stat. 1135; Pub. L. 102-251, title 
II, Sec. 202(b), Mar. 9, 1992, 106 Stat. 61; Pub. L. 104-264, title XII, 
Sec. 1222, Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 3286; Pub. L. 104-324, title XI, 
Sec. 1106, Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3967; Pub. L. 106-554, Sec. 1(a)(4) 
[div. B, title I, Sec. 147], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A-251.)


                               Amendments

    2000--Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 106-554 inserted ``for a voyage or a 
segment of a voyage that begins and ends in the State of Hawaii, or'' 
after ``Except'' in introductory provisions.
    1996--Subsec. (b)(1)(C). Pub. L. 104-324, Sec. 1106(b), added 
subpar. (C).
    Subsec. (b)(2)(C). Pub. L. 104-264, Sec. 1222, and Pub. L. 104-324, 
Sec. 1106(a), made substantially identical amendments, adding subpar. 
(C). The text of subpar. (C) is based on amendment by Pub. L. 104-324.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104-324, Sec. 1106(c), added subsec. (c).
    1992--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102-251, Sec. 202(b)(1), (2), designated 
existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted heading, and inserted 
before period at end ``, including on a vessel documented under chapter 
121 of title 46 or documented under the laws of a foreign country''.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102-251, Sec. 202(b)(3), added subsec. (b).


                    Effective Date of 1996 Amendment

    Except as otherwise specifically provided, amendment by Pub. L. 104-
264 applicable only to fiscal years beginning after Sept. 30, 1996, and 
not to be construed as affecting funds made available for a fiscal year 
ending before Oct. 1, 1996, see section 3 of Pub. L. 104-264, set out as 
a note under section 106 of Title 49, Transportation.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1172, 1176 of this title; 
title 25 section 2710.
