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recording, or registering bets, or otherwise carrying
on a game of chance for money, property, or other
thing of value. This prohibition includes all gambling
operations, even if and where such activities do not
constitute unlawful conduct.
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Unnecessary Roughness Fantasy Football League does
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under the definition of gambling. Therefore, we are
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Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana, Montana & Vermont.
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Definition
of wagering/gambling directly from text of House Resolution
4411, the Internet Gambling Act of 2006:
Section
1081 of title 18, United States Code, is amended--
(1)
by designating the five undesignated paragraphs that
begin with `The term' as paragraphs (1) through (5),
respectively;
(2)
by amending paragraph (5), as so designated, to read
as follows:
`(5)
The term `communication facility' means any and all
instrumentalities, personnel, and services (among
other things, the receipt, forwarding, or delivery
of communications) used or useful in the transmission
of writings, signs, pictures, and sounds of all kinds
by aid of wire, cable, radio, or an electromagnetic,
photoelectronic or photooptical system, or other like
connection (whether fixed or mobile) between the points
of origin and reception of such transmission.'; and
(3)
by adding at the end the following:
`(6)
The term `bets or wagers'--
`(A)
means the staking or risking by any person of something
of value upon the outcome of a contest of others,
a sporting event, or a game predominantly subject
to chance, upon an agreement or understanding that
the person or another person will receive something
of value in the event of a certain outcome;
`(B)
includes the purchase of a chance or opportunity to
win a lottery or other prize (which opportunity to
win is predominantly subject to chance);
`(C)
includes any scheme of a type described in section
3702 of title 28; and
`(D)
does not include--
`(i)
any activity governed by the securities laws (as that
term is defined in section 3(a)(47) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934) for the purchase or sale of
securities (as that term is defined in section 3(a)(10)
of that Act);
`(ii)
any transaction conducted on or subject to the rules
of a registered entity or exempt board of trade under
the Commodity Exchange Act;
`(iii)
any over-the-counter derivative instrument;
`(iv)
any other transaction that--
`(I)
is excluded or exempt from regulation under the Commodity
Exchange Act; or
`(II)
is exempt from State gaming or bucket shop laws under
section 12(e) of the Commodity Exchange Act or section
28(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934;
`(v)
any contract of indemnity or guarantee;
`(vi)
any contract for insurance;
`(vii)
any deposit or other transaction with an insured depository
institution;
`(viii)
participation in any game or contest in which participants
do not stake or risk anything of value other than--
`(I)
personal efforts of the participants in playing the
game or contest or obtaining access to the Internet;
or
`(II)
points or credits that the sponsor of the game or
contest provides to participants free of charge and
that can be used or redeemed only for participation
in games or contests offered by the sponsor; or
`(ix)
participation in any fantasy or simulation sports
game or educational game or contest in which (if the
game or contest involves a team or teams) no fantasy
or simulation sports team is based on the current
membership of an actual team that is a member of an
amateur or professional sports organization (as those
terms are defined in section 3701 of title 28) and
that meets the following conditions:
`(I)
All prizes and awards offered to winning participants
are established and made known to the participants
in advance of the game or contest and their value
is not determined by the number of participants or
the amount of any fees paid by those participants.
`(II)
All winning outcomes reflect the relative knowledge
and skill of the participants and are determined predominantly
by accumulated statistical results of the performance
of individuals (athletes in the case of sports events)
in multiple real-world sporting or other events.
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