{"data":{"id":"us-ca/pen-319.5","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PEN § 319.5","heading":"","body":"Neither this chapter nor Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 330) applies to the possession or operation of a reverse vending machine. As used in this section a reverse vending machine is a machine in which empty beverage containers are deposited for recycling and which provides a payment of money, merchandise, vouchers, or other incentives at a frequency less than upon each deposit. The pay out of a reverse vending machine is made on a deposit selected at random within the designated number of required deposits.\nThe deposit of an empty beverage container in a reverse vending machine does not constitute consideration within the definition of lottery in Section 319.","path":["Penal Code - PEN","PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25. - 680.4.]","TITLE 9. OF CRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON INVOLVING SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND CRIMES AGAINST PUBLIC DECENCY AND GOOD MORALS [261. - 368.7.]","CHAPTER 9. Lotteries [319. - 329.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"62242e0ddbaac6a7a18f8c9474a0b37db206435694b8e42010d80aa8bbad2765","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/pen-319.3","next":"us-ca/pen-320"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}