---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 5367"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "5367"
heading: "Circumventions prohibited"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/5367"
units:
  - "Subtitle IV — Money"
  - "Chapter 53 — Monetary Transactions"
  - "Subchapter IV — Prohibition on Funding of Unlawful Internet Gambling"
---

# §5367. Circumventions prohibited


Notwithstanding [section 5362(2)](/usc/31/5362.md?p=2), a [financial transaction provider](/usc/31/5362.md?p=4), or any [interactive computer service](/usc/31/5362.md?p=6) or telecommunications service, may be liable under this subchapter if such person has actual knowledge and control of bets and wagers, and—

- (1) operates, manages, supervises, or directs an [Internet](/usc/31/5362.md?p=5) website at which unlawful bets or wagers may be placed, received, or otherwise made, or at which unlawful bets or wagers are offered to be placed, received, or otherwise made; or
- (2) owns or controls, or is owned or controlled by, any person who operates, manages, supervises, or directs an [Internet](/usc/31/5362.md?p=5) website at which unlawful bets or wagers may be placed, received, or otherwise made, or at which unlawful bets or wagers are offered to be placed, received, or otherwise made.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 109–347, title VIII, § 802(a), Oct. 13, 2006, 120 Stat. 1961.)