18 U.S.C. § 1081 : US Code - Section 1081: Definitions

Search 18 U.S.C. § 1081 : US Code - Section 1081: Definitions

As used in this chapter:
The term "gambling ship" means a vessel used principally for the
operation of one or more gambling establishments. Such term does
not include a vessel with respect to gambling aboard such vessel
beyond the territorial waters of the United States during a covered
voyage (as defined in section 4472 of the Internal Revenue Code of
1986 as in effect on January 1, 1994).
The term "gambling establishment" means any common gaming or
gambling establishment operated for the purpose of gaming or
gambling, including accepting, recording, or registering bets, or
carrying on a policy game or any other lottery, or playing any game
of chance, for money or other thing of value.
The term "vessel" includes every kind of water and air craft or
other contrivance used or capable of being used as a means of
transportation on water, or on water and in the air, as well as any
ship, boat, barge, or other water craft or any structure capable of
floating on the water.
The term "American vessel" means any vessel documented or
numbered under the laws of the United States; and includes any
vessel which is neither documented or numbered under the laws of
the United States nor documented under the laws of any foreign
country, if such vessel is owned by, chartered to, or otherwise
controlled by one or more citizens or residents of the United
States or corporations organized under the laws of the United
States or of any State.
The term "wire communication facility" means any and all
instrumentalities, personnel, and services (among other things, the
receipt, forwarding, or delivery of communications) used or useful
in the transmission of writings, signs, pictures, and sounds of all
kinds by aid of wire, cable, or other like connection between the
points of origin and reception of such transmission.