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legal/us/code/title-15/chapter-24/section-1178.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "15 U.S.C. § 1178"
+description: "Nonapplicability of chapter to certain machines and devices"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 15
+title_name: "COMMERCE AND TRADE"
+chapter_number: "24"
+chapter_name: "TRANSPORTATION OF GAMBLING DEVICES"
+section: "1178"
+citation: "15 U.S.C. § 1178"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc15@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t15/s1178"
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+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 15 U.S.C. § 1178 - Nonapplicability of chapter to certain machines and devices
+
+## Text
+
+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.
+
+(Jan. 2, 1951, ch. 1194, § 9, as added Pub. L. 87–840, § 6, Oct. 18, 1962, 76 Stat. 1077.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
+
+Effective DateSection effective on sixtieth day after Oct. 18, 1962, see section 7 of Pub. L. 87–840, set out as an Effective Date of 1962 Amendment note under section 1171 of this title.