{"data":{"id":"us-mt/23-5-501","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"23-5-501","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this part, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following definitions apply:\n(1) (a) \"Multiple competitor sports pool\" means a sports pool in which three or more competitors simultaneously compete in a college or professional sports event or series of sports events. The term includes but is not limited to a sports event in which competitors are placed into a bracket.\n(b) The term does not include multiple competitor sports pools utilizing any form of internet gambling as defined in 23-5-112.\n(2) \"Sports pool\" means a gambling activity, other than an activity governed under chapter 4 or chapter 5, part 2, of this title, in which a person wagers money for each chance to win money or other items of value based on the outcome of a sports event or series of sports events wherein the competitors in the sports event or series of sports events are natural persons or animals.\n(3) \"Sports tab\" means a folded or banded ticket with a face covered to conceal a combination of two numbers, with each number ranging from zero through nine.\n(4) \"Sports tab game\" means a gambling enterprise conducted on a card to which 100 sports tabs are attached that have 100 different combinations for which consideration in money is paid by the person purchasing each tab. A person may purchase a sports tab from the card for the chance to win money or other items of value on a sports event or series of sports events as provided in 23-5-503.","path":["TITLE 23. PARKS, RECREATION, SPORTS, AND GAMBLING","CHAPTER 5. GAMBLING","Part 5. Sports Pools"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0230/chapter_0050/part_0050/section_0010/0230-0050-0050-0010.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:49:55Z","sha256":"3209d44b6ec59469f6a7291797977b139334c279b3046e7eeaf46d5432f87c36","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/23-5-431","next":"us-mt/23-5-502"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}