NH Rev Stat § 287-I:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title XXIV - Games, Amusements, and Athletic Exhibitions|Title 287-I - Sports Betting|Section 287-I:1 - Definitions.

    287-I:1 Definitions. –||For the purposes of this chapter these words shall have the following meaning:||I. "Agent" means a party who is authorized by contract or agreement with the commission to conduct a sports book.||II. "Authorized sports bettor" means an individual 18 years of age or older who is physically present in the state of New Hampshire when placing a sports wager with the commission or an authorized agent of the commission and is not a prohibited sports bettor.||III. "Collegiate sports event" means a sports or athletic event participated in or offered or sponsored by a public or private institution that offers educational services beyond the secondary level.||IV. "Commission" means the lottery commission.||V. "Director" means the executive director of the lottery commission or designee.||VI. "High school sports event" means a sports or athletic event participated in or offered or sponsored by a public or private institution that offers educational services at the secondary level.||VII. "In-play sports wager" means a sports wager on a sports event after the sports event has begun and before it ends.||VIII. "Mobile sports wagering platform" means the combination of hardware, software, and data networks used to manage, administer, record, and/or control sports wagers.||IX. "Professional sports event" means an event at which 2 or more persons participate in a sports or athletic event and receive compensation in excess of actual expenses for their participation in such event.||X. "Prohibited sports bettor" means:||(a) Any member or employee of the commission and any spouse, child, sibling, or parent residing in the same household as a member or employee of the commission.||(b) Any principal or employee of any agent.||(c) Any contractor of the commission or its agents when such contract relates to the conduct of sports wagering.||(d) Any contractor or employee of an entity that conducts sports wagering in another jurisdiction when the bettor possesses confidential nonpublic information as a result of his or her contract or employment relating to the wager being placed.||(e) Any amateur or professional athlete if the sports wager is based in whole or part on a sport or athletic event overseen by the athlete's governing sports body.||(f) Any sports agent, owner, or employee of a team, player, umpire, referee, coach, union official, or official of a sports governing body if the sports wager is based in whole or part on a sport or athletic event overseen by the governing body which oversees the individual's sport.||(g) Any individual placing a wager as an agent of or proxy for a prohibited sports bettor.||(h) Any person under the age of 18.||XI. "Prohibited sports event" means:||(a) A collegiate sports event in which one of the participants is a collegiate team of a college institution that is primarily located in New Hampshire;||(b) A collegiate sports event that takes place in New Hampshire;||(c) Any high school sports event in any location;||(d) Any amateur sports event where the participants are primarily under the age of 18; provided that "prohibited sports event" does not include the games of a collegiate sports tournament in which a New Hampshire college team participates, nor does it include any games of a collegiate sports tournament that occurs outside New Hampshire even though some of the individual games or events are held in New Hampshire; and provided further that sports wagers are permitted on collegiate sports tournament games in which a New Hampshire college team participates only if the outcome of the wager is based on the outcome of all games within the tournament.||XII. "Sports governing body" means the organization that prescribes final rules and enforces codes of conduct with respect to a sporting event and participants therein.||XIII. "Sports book" means the business of accepting wagers on any sports event by any system or method of wagering.||XIV. "Sports wager" means cash or cash equivalent paid by an individual to participate in sports wagering.||XV. "Sports wagering" means wagering on sporting events or any portion thereof, or on the individual performance statistics of athletes participating in a sports event, or combination of sports events, by any system or method of wagering, including but not limited to in person communication and electronic communication through Internet websites accessed via a mobile device or computer and mobile device applications. The term sports wagering shall include, but not be limited to, single game bets, teaser bets, parlays, over-under bets, money line bets, pools, exchange wagering, in game wagering, in-play bets, proposition bets, and straight bets.||XVI. "Tier I sports wager" means a sports wager that is placed before the start of the sports event and is determined solely by the final score or final outcome of that single sports event.||XVII. "Tier II sports wager" means an in-play sports wager.||XVIII. "Tier III sports wager" means a sports wager that is neither a tier I or tier II wager.|||Source. 2019, 215:1, eff. July 12, 2019.|