463.0155 - “Gaming device” defined.

463.0155  “Gaming device” defined.  “Gaming device” means any object used remotely or directly in connection with gaming or any game which affects the result of a wager by determining win or loss and which does not otherwise constitute associated equipment. The term includes, without limitation:

      1.  A slot machine.

      2.  A collection of two or more of the following components:

      (a) An assembled electronic circuit which cannot be reasonably demonstrated to have any use other than in a slot machine;

      (b) A cabinet with electrical wiring and provisions for mounting a coin, token or currency acceptor and provisions for mounting a dispenser of coins, tokens or anything of value;

      (c) A storage medium containing a control program;

      (d) An assembled mechanical or electromechanical display unit intended for use in gambling; or

      (e) An assembled mechanical or electromechanical unit which cannot be demonstrated to have any use other than in a slot machine.

      3.  Any object which may be connected to or used with a slot machine to alter the normal criteria of random selection or affect the outcome of a game.

      4.  A system for the accounting or management of any game in which the result of the wager is determined electronically by using any combination of hardware or software for computers.

      5.  A control program.

      6.  Any combination of one of the components set forth in paragraphs (a) to (e), inclusive, of subsection 2 and any other component which the Commission determines by regulation to be a machine used directly or remotely in connection with gaming or any game which affects the results of a wager by determining a win or loss.

      7.  Any object that has been determined to be a gaming device pursuant to regulations adopted by the Commission.

Ê As used in this section, “control program” means any software, source language or executable code which affects the result of a wager by determining win or loss as determined pursuant to regulations adopted by the Commission.

      (Added to NRS by 1967, 1039; A 1981, 1074; 1985, 2135; 1993, 307; 2009, 274)