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Appendix C: Legal-Age Gambling Opportunities and Restrictions
Appendix C: Legal-Age Gambling Opportunities and Restrictions
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Nelson Rose Pari-Mutuel Casinos and Charity Bingo State Lottery Betting Slot Machines & Pull-tabs Alabama 18/19 19 Alaska 18 19/21 Arizona 18 18 18 18 Arkansas 1 8 California 18 18 18/21 18 Colorado 18 18 21 18 Connecticut 18 18 18/21 18 Delaware 18 18 21 18 District of Columbia 18 18 18 Florida 18 18 18 Georgia 18 None Hawaii Idaho 18 18 None/18 nods 18 17 18/21 18 ndiana 18 18 21 18 owe 18 18 21 None Kansas 18 18 18 Kentucky 18 18 18 Louisiana 21 18 21 18? Maine 18 18 16 Maryland 18 18 18 16-18 Massachusetts 18 18 18 283
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None Wyoming 18 ? NOTE: A question mark without a number means that form of gambling is legal in that state, but the minimum age requirements, if any, are not known.
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Bingo: Non-profit organizations can run bingo games for charitable or educational purposes. The state has separate statutes for various counties and at least one city all set the minimum playing age as well as the minimum age for conducting or assisting bingo at 19.
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The minimum ages for Indian casinos in Arizona is 18. ARKANSAS Pari-mutuel betting: Arkansas's horse racing statute expressly prohibits "any person under eighteen (18)
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Indian tribes are operating slot machines without compacts, in technical violation of the controlling federal law, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. All non-compacted Indian gaming, even when legal, is regulated by the tribe, which can change the age limits whenever it wishes.
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Colorado also has signed compacts with two Indian tribes; age limits are 21. Bingo and pull-tabs: State law prohibits anyone under 18 from playing bingo or buying pull-tabs.
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Pari-mutuel betting and slot machines: While racetracks appear to put the limit at age 18, the state recently amended its laws to allow video lottery machines in racetracks, with an age limit of 21. Delaware Code Title 29, §4810.
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Hawaii, like many other states, does allow "social gambling" minimum age is 18. Hawaii Revised Statutes §712-1231.
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Indiana Code §§4-30-9-3, 4-30-11-3, 4-30-12-1, 4-30-13-1. Pari-mutuel betting: Minimum age to work at a racetrack is 16, but the racing commission can license children even younger, who are working for their parent or legal guardian.
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There are no age limits at all for games of chance at carnivals, so long as only non-cash merchandise worth no more than $25 is given as prizes. Bingo similarly has no age limit; cash prizes may be given and are usually limited to $100; however, the bingo game may offer a jackpot of up to $800.
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Casinos: The state is in the middle of a protracted fight over Indian casinos. Although the legislature created a joint committee on gaming compacts, no mention was made of minimum age limits.
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Louisiana has everything except sports betting: Riverboat casinos, two Indian casinos, America's first urban land-based casino in New Orieans, video poker machines everywhere with large numbers at truckstops and racetracks, electronic bingo machines, pari-mutuel betting, and a state lottery. Lottery: See paragraph above.
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The only punishment comes in when a lottery agent knowingly sells to a minor, but this is punished as a civil, not criminal, violation with a maximum fine of only $200. Maine Revised Statutes Title 8, §§374 and 380.
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Bingo: Maryland's bingo laws are unique in two aspects: the state legislature has passed specific statutes for individual counties, rather than a single law covering the entire state; and some statutes explicitly allow 16-year-olds to play bingo. Maryland Criminal Law Code Art.
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After the compacts were signed, the state legislature passed a statute mandating that Indian casinos be restricted to adults over 21, and added that the minimum age for all other forms of legal gambling in the state would also be raised from 18 to 21 if more than half the tribes agreed to that limit. The tribes took this as a trick to get them to re-open compact negotiations and rejected the move to 21.
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Minnesota Statutes §§240.13 and 240.25. Casinos: More legal full-scale Indian casinos than AtIantic City, with minimum age limits presently at 18.
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The state charitable bingo law provides that no licensee shall allow anyone under 18 to play a bingo game unless accompanied by his or her parent or legal guardian, except that a licensee may prohibit all persons under 18 from entering the licensed premises by posting a written notice to that effect. Mississippi Code §97-33-67.
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NEBRASKA Nebraska has the unusual arrangement of having no state lottery, but allowing cities and counties to run lotteries. It then makes a strange age distinction: Lottery: Villages, cities and counties can operate lotteries in Nebraska minimum age to buy a ticket: 19.
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NEVADA Lottery: The Nevada Constitution still prohibits all lotteries, except charity raffles. The enabling statute does not mention a minimum age for buying a raffle ticket.
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Bingo and pull-tabs: State law prohibits anyone under 18 to be admitted to or play bingo games. New Hampshire Revised Statutes §§287-E:7, 287-E:10 and 287-E:12.
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Casinos: Compacts require Indian casinos to limit players to a minimum gambling age of 21. Bingo and pull-tabs: New Mexico gambling statutes do not specify a minimum age for players.
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Bingo: State Bingo statutes do not specify a minimum age for players. NORTH DAKOTA Lottery: North Dakota is the only state where voters refused to authorize a state lottery, in part because the state already has so many other forms of gambling, including charity casinos.
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Bingo: A wonderful minimum age: Participants and operators in Bingo games conducted by multipurpose senior centers must be at least 60 years old. Employees at other bingo halls must be over 18.
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No licensed corporation shall permit any person who is under 18 years of age to attend a horse race meeting conducted by it unless the person is accompanied by a parent or guardian." Casinos: Charities can operate casinos under Pennsylvania's "Small Games of Chance Act," minimum age limit is 18. PennsyIvania Consolidated Statutes title 10 §320.
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years may play a video lottery game authorized by this chapter, nor shall any licensed video lottery retailer knowingly permit a minor to play a video lottery machine or knowingly pay a minor with respect to a video lottery credit slip. Violation of this section shall be punishable by a fine of five hundred dollars ($500~." Lottery tickets may not be sold to anyone under 18, but adults may give tickets as gifts to minors.
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SOUTH DAKOTA South Dakota was one of the first states to allow its state lottery to set up video lottery terminals, slot machines without coin drops. The state also allows full-scale, low-stake casinos in Deadwood and on Indian land.
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However, minors may receive lottery tickets as gifts. Vermont Statutes title 13 §2143, title 31 §§654 and 661.
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Pari-mutuel betting: The state's racing commissioners report the minimum age as being 18. Association of Racing Commissioners International, Inc., Pari-Mutue!
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West Virginia Code §47-20-4 WISCONSIN Lottery: Wisconsin has a comprehensive statutory scheme for handling minors and lottery tickets. Like many other states, the minimum age is 18, although minors may receive tickets as gifts.
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312 APPENDIX C Source: I Nelson Rose, Gambling and the Law: Minimum Legal Age to Place A Bet.
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