“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. Mobile gaming.

3. 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) An assembled mechanical or electromechanical display unit intended for use in gambling; or

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. A control program.

7. Any combination of one of the components set forth in paragraphs (a) to (d), inclusive, of subsection 3 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.

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

9. As used in this section:

(a) “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.

(b) “Mobile gaming” means the conduct of gambling games through communications devices operated solely in an establishment which holds a nonrestricted gaming license and which operates at least 100 slot machines and at least one other game by the use of communications technology that allows a person to transmit information to a computer to assist in the placing of a bet or wager and corresponding information related to the display of the game, game outcomes or other similar information. For the purposes of this paragraph, “communications technology” means any method used and the components employed by an establishment to facilitate the transmission of information, including, without limitation, transmission and reception by systems based on wireless network, wireless fidelity, wire, cable, radio, microwave, light, optics or computer data networks. The term does not include the Internet.

(Added to NRS by 1967, 1039; A 1981, 1074; 1985, 2135; 1993, 307; 2009, 274; 2011, 1642; 2019, 1274)