KRS 528.020: Promoting gambling in the first degree.

(1) A person is guilty of promoting gambling in the first degree when he knowingly

advances or profits from unlawful gambling activity by:

(a) Engaging in bookmaking to the extent that he employs or utilizes three or

more persons in a bookmaking activity and receives or accepts in any one day

bets totaling more than $500; or

(b) Receiving in connection with a lottery or mutuel scheme or enterprise:

1. Money or written records from a person other than a player whose

chances or plays are represented by such money or records; or

2. More than $500 in any one day of money played in the scheme or

enterprise; or

(c) Setting up and operating a gambling device.

(2) Promoting gambling in the first degree is a Class D felony.