15 USC § 1178 - Nonapplicability of chapter to certain machines and devices

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identifier: "/us/usc/t15/s1178"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "15 USC § 1178 - Nonapplicability of chapter to certain machines and devices"
title_number: 15
title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
section_number: "1178"
section_name: "Nonapplicability of chapter to certain machines and devices"
chapter_number: 24
chapter_name: "TRANSPORTATION OF GAMBLING DEVICES"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Jan. 2, 1951, ch. 1194, § 9, as added Pub. L. 87–840, § 6, Oct. 18, 1962, 76 Stat. 1077.)"
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# § 1178. Nonapplicability of chapter to certain machines and devices

None of the provisions of this chapter shall be construed to apply—

**(1)** to any machine or mechanical device designed and manufactured primarily for use at a racetrack in connection with parimutuel betting,

**(2)** to any machine or mechanical device, such as a coin-operated bowling alley, shuffleboard, marble machine (a so-called pinball machine), or mechanical gun, which is not designed and manufactured primarily for use in connection with gambling, and (A) which when operated does not deliver, as a result of the application of an element of chance, any money or property, or (B) by the operation of which a person may not become entitled to receive, as the result of the application of an element of chance, any money or property, or

**(3)** to any so-called claw, crane, or digger machine and similar devices which are not operated by coin, are actuated by a crank, and are designed and manufactured primarily for use at carnivals or county or State fairs.

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**Source Credit**: (Jan. 2, 1951, ch. 1194, § 9, as added Pub. L. 87–840, § 6, Oct. 18, 1962, 76 Stat. 1077.)

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on sixtieth day after , see , set out as an Effective Date of 1962 Amendment note under .