Kan. Stat. Ann. § 21-6407
Dealing in gambling devices
Kansas · Kansas Statutes Annotated Chapter 21 — Crimes and Punishments · Status: effective
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- Kan. Stat. Ann. § 21-6407, Dealing in gambling devices, Kansas, version 1 as recorded 2026-10-04, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/2536636
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(a) Dealing in gambling devices is manufacturing, distributing or possessing with intent to distribute any gambling device or sub-assembly or essential part thereof.
(b) Dealing in gambling devices is a severity level 8, nonperson felony.
(c) Proof of possession of any device designed exclusively for gambling purposes, which device is not set up for use or which is not in a gambling place, creates a presumption of possession with intent to distribute.
(d) It shall be a defense to a prosecution under this section that:
(1) The gambling device is an antique slot machine and that the antique slot machine was not operated for gambling purposes while in the owner's or the defendant's possession. A slot machine shall be deemed an antique slot machine if it was manufactured prior to the year 1950; or
(2) the gambling device or sub-assembly or essential part thereof is manufactured, distributed or possessed by a manufacturer registered under the federal gambling devices act of 1962 (15 U.S.C. § 1171 et seq.) or a transporter under contract with such manufacturer with intent to distribute for use:
(A) By the Kansas lottery or Kansas lottery retailers as authorized by law and rules and regulations adopted by the Kansas lottery commission;
(B) by a licensee of the Kansas racing commission as authorized by law and rules and regulations adopted by the commission;
(C) in a state other than the state of Kansas; or
(D) in tribal gaming.