725.9 Possession of gambling devices prohibited — exception for manufacturing. 1. 'Antique slot machine' means a slot machine which is twenty-five years old or older.2. 'Gambling device' means a device used or adapted or designed to be used for gambling and includes, but is not limited to, roulette wheels, klondike tables, punchboards, faro layouts,keno layouts, numbers tickets, slot machines, pachislo skill-stop machine or any other similarmachine or device, push cards, jar tickets and pull-tabs. However, 'gambling device' doesnot include an antique slot machine, or any device regularly manufactured and offered forsale and sold as a toy, except that any use of such a toy or antique slot machine for gamblingpurposes constitutes unlawful gambling. 3. A person who, in any manner or for any purpose, except under a proceeding to destroy the device, has in possession or control a gambling device is guilty of a serious misdemeanor. 4. This chapter does not prohibit the possession of gambling devices by a manufacturer or distributor if the possession is solely for sale out of the state in another jurisdiction wherepossession of the device is legal or for sale in the state or use in the ng devices by a manufacturer or distributor if the possession is solely for sale out of the state in another jurisdiction wherepossession of the device is legal or for sale in the state or use in the state if the use is licensedpursuant to either chapter 99B or chapter 99G. [S13, §4965-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §13210; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, §726.5; C79, 81, §725.9] 85 Acts, ch 32, §118; 86 Acts, ch 1052, §3; 90 Acts, ch 1062, §2; 2003 Acts, ch 178, §117, 121; 2003 Acts, ch 179, §142; 2007 Acts, ch 38, §9, 10 Referred to in §99A.1, 99B.53, 99B.62, 725.15See chapter 99A Sat Dec 23 12:32:27 2023 Iowa Code 2024, Section 725.9 (15, 0)
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