Maryland Code, STATE GOVERNMENT 9-1E-13
Terms Used In Maryland Code, STATE GOVERNMENT 9-1E-13
- including: means includes or including by way of illustration and not by way of limitation. See
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- state: means :
(1) a state, possession, territory, or commonwealth of the United States; or
(2) the District of Columbia. See
(b) Consistent with the intent of the United States Congress as articulated in the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, the intermediate routing of electronic data relating to a lawful intrastate wager authorized under this subtitle may not determine the location in which the wager is initiated, received, or otherwise made.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of this subtitle, a wager on a sporting event may be accepted or pooled with a wager from an individual who is not physically present in the State if the Commission determines that accepting or pooling the wager is not inconsistent with federal law or the law of the jurisdiction, including any foreign nation, in which the individual is located, or that such wagering is conducted in accordance with a reciprocal agreement to which the State is a party that is not inconsistent with federal law.