Arizona Revised Statutes Title 13. Criminal Code § 13-3305. Betting and wagering; classification

A. Subject to the exceptions prescribed in § 5-112 and title 5, chapter 11,  1 no person may engage for a fee, property, salary or reward in the business of accepting, recording or registering any bet, purported bet, wager or purported wager or engage for a fee, property, salary or reward in the business of selling wagering pools or purported wagering pools with respect to the result or purported result of any race, sporting event, contest or other game of skill or chance or any other unknown or contingent future event or occurrence whatsoever.

B. Subject to the exceptions prescribed in title 5, chapter 11, a person shall not directly or indirectly knowingly accept for a fee, property, salary or reward anything of value from another to be transmitted or delivered for wagering or betting on the results of a race, sporting event, contest or other game of skill or chance or any other unknown or contingent future event or occurrence whatsoever conducted within or without this state or anything of value as reimbursement for the prior making of such a wager or bet on behalf of another person.

C. A person who violates this section is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor.