(1) A person commits the offense of promoting gambling in the second degree if he or she knowingly advances or profits from any unlawful gambling activity by: (a) Engaging in bookmaking to the extent that he or she receives or accepts in any one day one or more bets totaling less than one thousand five hundred dollars; (b) Receiving, in connection with any unlawful gambling scheme or enterprise, less than one thousand five hundred dollars of money played in the scheme or enterprise in any one day; or (c) Betting something of value in an amount of five hundred dollars or more with one or more persons in one day.

(1) A person commits the offense of promoting gambling in the third degree if he or she knowingly participates in unlawful gambling as a player by betting less than five hundred dollars in any one day. (2) Promoting gambling in the third degree is a Class IV misdemeanor. Source: Laws 1977, LB 38, 220; Laws 1979, LB 152, 4; Laws 2015, LB605, 52.

This legal document pertains to the offense of possession of gambling records in Nebraska. It applies to any person, other than a player, who knowingly possesses any writing, paper, instrument, or article commonly used in the operation or promotion of a bookmaking scheme or enterprise, or commonly used in the operation, promotion, or playing of a lottery or mutuel scheme or enterprise. There are no specified exemptions mentioned in the document.

(1) A person commits the offense of gambling debt collection if he or she employs any force or intimidation or threatens force or intimidation in order to collect any debt which results from gambling as defined by sections 9-510, 28-1101 to 28-1109, and 28-1117. (2) Gambling debt collection is a Class III felony. Source: Laws 1979, LB 152, 6.

This legal document pertains to the offense of possession of a gambling device in Nebraska. It applies to any person who manufactures, sells, transports, places, possesses, or conducts or negotiates any transaction affecting or designed to affect ownership, custody, or use of any gambling device, knowing that it shall be used in the advancement of unlawful gambling activity. The document provides an affirmative defense for the owner or operator of a retail establishment who is not a manufacturer, distributor, or seller of mechanical amusement devices, if the device bears an unexpired mechanical amusement device decal as required by the Mechanical Amusement Device Tax Act.

In any prosecution under this article, it shall be an affirmative defense that the writing, paper, instrument, or article possessed by the defendant was neither used nor intended to be used in the advancement of an unlawful gambling activity. Source: Laws 1977, LB 38, 224; Laws 1979, LB 152, 8.

Proof of possession of any gambling device shall be prima facie evidence of possession thereof with knowledge of its contents and character. Source: Laws 1977, LB 38, 225; Laws 1979, LB 152, 9.

It shall be no defense to a prosecution under any provision of this article relating to gambling that the gambling is conducted outside this state and is not in violation of the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is conducted. Source: Laws 1977, LB 38, 226; Laws 1986, LB 1027, 194.

In any prosecution for an offense defined in this article, when the defendant’s status as a player constitutes an excusing condition, the fact that the defendant was a player shall constitute an affirmative defense. Source: Laws 1977, LB 38, 228.

This article, part of the Nebraska Revised Statutes on Crimes and Punishments, clarifies the interpretation of the provisions within the article. It specifies that the article does not apply to or prohibit certain activities. These activities include wagering on horseraces by the parimutuel or certificate method within licensed racetrack enclosures at licensed horserace meetings, conducting or participating in bingo, lottery, raffle, or gift enterprise in accordance with specific acts, and the operation and participation in games of chance by authorized gaming operators and individuals twenty-one years of age or older within licensed racetrack enclosures as provided in the Nebraska Racetrack Gaming Act.