Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 23 > Chapter 7 > Part 1 - General

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• bet: means the staking or risking by a person of something of value upon an agreement or understanding that the person or another person will receive something of value in the event of a certain outcome. See Montana Code 23-7-103
• Commission: means the state lottery and sports wagering commission created by 23-7-201. See Montana Code 23-7-103
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Director: means the director appointed by the governor under 23-7-210 to administer and manage the state lottery. See Montana Code 23-7-103
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Knowingly: means only a knowledge that the facts exist which bring the act or omission within the provisions of this code. See Montana Code 1-1-204
• Lottery game: means any procedure, including any online or other procedure using a machine or electronic device, by which one or more prizes are distributed among persons who have paid for a chance to win a prize and includes but is not limited to weekly (or other, longer time period) winner games, instant winner games, daily numbers games, sports pool games, and sports wagering. See Montana Code 23-7-103
• Lottery license: means a license issued by the state lottery that authorizes a sales agent to sell lottery tickets at a fixed place of business. See Montana Code 23-7-103
• Person: includes a corporation or other entity as well as a natural person. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Prizes: means any winning tickets, chances, wagers, or bets validated by the state lottery central gaming system and sold by any sales agent. See Montana Code 23-7-103
• Sales agent: means an entity that holds a lottery license or sports wagering license as provided in this chapter. See Montana Code 23-7-103
• Sports wagering: means accepting wagers on sporting events or portions of sporting events, or on the individual performance statistics of athletes in a sporting event or combination of sporting events, by any system or method of wagering, including but not limited to in-person or over the internet through websites and on mobile devices. See Montana Code 23-7-103
• Sports wagering equipment: means a mechanical, electronic, or other device, mechanism, or other gaming equipment and related supplies that is connected to the state lottery central gaming system and used or consumed in the operation of sports wagering at the licensed sports wagering facility including a self-service terminal installed to accept sports wagers. See Montana Code 23-7-103
• Sports wagering facility: means a lottery location approved under a sports wagering license and licensed under Title 23, chapter 5, as a gambling operator. See Montana Code 23-7-103
• Sports wagering license: means a license issued by the state lottery that authorizes the operation of sports wagering through sports wagering equipment, including sports wagering conducted through mobile application or other digital platforms that is initiated and received or otherwise made exclusively within the physical confines using location-based services of the single approved sports wagering facility. See Montana Code 23-7-103
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• State lottery: means the Montana state lottery and sports wagering agency created and operated pursuant to this chapter. See Montana Code 23-7-103
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201