(1) A person is guilty of promoting gambling in the first degree when he knowingly advances or profits from unlawful gambling activity by:
- (a) Engaging in bookmaking to the extent that he employs or utilizes three or more persons in a bookmaking activity and receives or accepts in any one day bets totaling more than $500; or
- (b) Receiving in connection with a lottery or mutuel scheme or enterprise: 1. Money or written records from a person other than a player whose chances or plays are represented by such money or records; or 2. More than $500 in any one day of money played in the scheme or enterprise; or
- (c) Setting up and operating a gambling device.
- (2) Promoting gambling in the first degree is a Class D felony.
Effective: January 1, 1975
History: Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 406, sec. 241, effective January 1, 1975.