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Promoting gambling in the first degree

KRS 528.020
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528.020. Promoting gambling in the first degree (1) A person is guilty of promoting gambling in the first degree when he knowingly advances or profits from unlawful gambling activity by: (a) Engaging in bookmaking to the extent that he employs or utilizes three or more persons in a bookmaking activity and receives or accepts in any one day bets totaling more than $500; or (b) Receiving in connection with a lottery or mutuel scheme or enterprise: 1. Money or written records from a person other than a player whose chances or plays are represented by such money or records; or 2. More than $500 in any one day of money played in the scheme or enterprise; or (c) Setting up and operating a gambling device. (2) Promoting gambling in the first degree is a Class D felony. Effective: January 1, 1975 History: Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 406, sec. 241, effective January 1, 1975.
Source: Kentucky Legislative Research Commission (legislature.ky.gov)URL: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=19970Fetched: 10/20/2026

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