Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 23 > Chapter 5 - Gambling

• Aggregate gross income: means the sum total of the gross income of all video gambling machines owned by a licensed machine owner. See Montana Code 23-5-602
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Associated equipment: means all proprietary devices, machines, or parts used in the manufacture or maintenance of a video gambling machine, including but not limited to integrated circuit chips, printed wired assembly, printed wired boards, printing mechanisms, video display monitors, metering devices, and cabinetry. See Montana Code 23-5-602
• Automated accounting and reporting system: means a system that, at a minimum, is used to electronically report video gambling machine accounting data to the state. See Montana Code 23-5-602
• Bonus game: means a game other than a bingo, poker, keno, or video line game that is offered as a prize for playing and achieving a defined outcome by playing a bingo, poker, keno, or video line game. See Montana Code 23-5-602
• Calcutta pool: means a form of auction pool conducted by an organization authorized by the department. See Montana Code 23-5-221
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means a principal functional and administrative entity that:

  (a)is created by this chapter within the executive branch of state government;

  (b)is one of the 20 principal departments permitted under the constitution; and

  (c)includes its units. See Montana Code 2-15-102

• Department head: means a director, commission, board, commissioner, or constitutional officer in charge of a department created by this chapter. See Montana Code 2-15-102
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Electronically captured data: means video gambling machine accounting information and records of video gambling machine events, in electronic form, that are automatically recorded and communicated to the department through an approved automated accounting and reporting system. See Montana Code 23-5-602
• fantasy sports league: means a gambling activity conducted in the following manner:

  (1)A fantasy sports league consists of a limited number of persons or groups of persons who pay an entrance fee for membership in the league. See Montana Code 23-5-801

• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• Gross income: means money put into a video gambling machine minus credits paid out in cash. See Montana Code 23-5-602
• Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Hearsay: Statements by a witness who did not see or hear the incident in question but heard about it from someone else. Hearsay is usually not admissible as evidence in court.
• Licensed machine owner: means a licensed operator or route operator who owns a video gambling machine for which a permit has been issued by the department. See Montana Code 23-5-602
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Multigame: means a combination of at least two or more approved types of games, including bingo, poker, keno, or video line games, within the same video gambling machine cabinet if the video gambling machine cabinet has been approved by the department. See Montana Code 23-5-602
• Multiple competitor sports pool: means a sports pool in which three or more competitors simultaneously compete in a college or professional sports event or series of sports events. See Montana Code 23-5-501
• Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Peace officer: has the meaning as defined in 46-1-202. See Montana Code 1-1-207
• Permitholder: means a licensed operator on whose premises is located one or more video gambling machines for which a permit has been issued by the department. See Montana Code 23-5-602
• Player rewards system: means a system that rewards player loyalty, including but not limited to employing player rankings, awarding player points, or other promotions based on player engagement at an individual licensed premises as determined by using video gambling machine data, which may come from an automated accounting and reporting system, and other information gathered at an individual licensed premises. See Montana Code 23-5-602
• Printing: means the act of reproducing a design on a surface by any process. See Montana Code 1-1-203
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
• Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
• Sports pool: means a gambling activity, other than an activity governed under chapter 4 or chapter 5, part 2, of this title, in which a person wagers money for each chance to win money or other items of value based on the outcome of a sports event or series of sports events wherein the competitors in the sports event or series of sports events are natural persons or animals. See Montana Code 23-5-501
• Sports tab: means a folded or banded ticket with a face covered to conceal a combination of two numbers, with each number ranging from zero through nine. See Montana Code 23-5-501
• Sports tab game: means a gambling enterprise conducted on a card to which 100 sports tabs are attached that have 100 different combinations for which consideration in money is paid by the person purchasing each tab. See Montana Code 23-5-501
• Video line game: means a video line game as defined by rules of the department and approved by the department. See Montana Code 23-5-602