State Gambling Laws

Click on the name of a State in the table below to read the excerpted text of its basic gambling laws. Websites containing state statutes are available for all states, although they may be out of date. The excerpts presented here are taken from those websites.  gambling-law-us.com also provides hyperlinks to those websites for most of the gambling laws that are excerpted.  It may take a long time before new provisions of a state law are incorporated into the online text the state makes available.  Before acting on any information contained in gambling-law-us.com you should get up to date and to the point advice from a lawyer.

The excerpts generally include state constitutional provisions specifically about gambling, "aiding and abetting" provisions of the state's criminal laws, the basic criminal gambling laws and some references to the legalized gaming laws in a few of the states.  I am slowly adding coverage of state charitable gaming laws.  As I add coverage it will be reached by a link from the Charitable Gaming page

Gambling-Law-us.com focuses primarily on the state laws applicable to lotteries, social gambling and illegal, unlicensed casino-style, or professional, gambling.  Bookmaking, legalized gaming and sports betting laws where dealt with are covered in a more summary form.