Louisiana Revised Statutes 27:98 – Skimming of gaming proceeds
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 27:98
- gaming operations: means the use, operation, or conducting of any game or gaming device upon a riverboat including all activities related to and integral to the operation and profitability of a riverboat, including accounting procedures and internal controls governing the licensee's operations. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 27:44
- 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.
- Riverboat: means one of the following:
(a) A vessel that carries a valid Certificate of Inspection issued by the United States Coast Guard with regard to the carriage of passengers on designated rivers or waterways within or contiguous to the boundaries of the state of Louisiana and for the carriage of a minimum of six hundred passengers and crew. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 27:44
- Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
A. The crime of skimming of gaming proceeds is the intentional excluding or the taking of any action in an attempt to exclude any thing or its value from the deposit, counting, collection, or computation of:
(1) Gross revenues from gaming operations or activities.
(2) Net gaming proceeds.
(3) Amounts due the state pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter.
B. Whoever commits the crime of skimming of gaming proceeds when the amount skimmed, or to be skimmed, is less than one thousand dollars may be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than five years or may be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or both.
C. Whoever commits the crime of skimming of gaming proceeds when the amount skimmed, or to be skimmed, is one thousand dollars or more shall be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than one year and not more than twenty years or may be fined not more than ten thousand dollars or the amount skimmed or to be skimmed, whichever is greater, or both.
D. The crime of skimming of gaming proceeds, for purposes of venue, may be considered to have been committed either in the parish of East Baton Rouge or in the parish or parishes within whose boundary or territorial jurisdiction the riverboat was located at the time the offense was committed.
Acts 1991, No. 753, §1, eff. July 18, 1991. Redesignated from La. Rev. Stat. 4:557 by Acts 1996, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 7, §3, eff. May 1, 1996.