Section 725.13 - Definition of bookmaking.

IA Code § 725.13 (2019) (N/A)
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725.13 Definition of bookmaking.

“Bookmaking” means advancing gambling activity by accepting bets upon the outcome of future contingent events as a business other than as permitted in chapters 99B, 99D, and 99F. These events include, but are not limited to, the results of a trial or contest of skill, speed, power, or endurance of a person or beast or between persons, beasts, fowl, motor vehicles, or mechanical apparatus or upon the result of any chance, casualty, unknown, or contingent event.

83 Acts, ch 187, §35; 89 Acts, ch 67, §27