§842-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter:
"Enterprise" includes any sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, association, and any union or group of individuals associated for a particular purpose although not a legal entity.
"Organized crime" means any combination or conspiracy to engage in criminal activity as a significant source of income or livelihood, or to violate, aid, or abet the violation of criminal laws relating to prostitution, gambling, loan sharking, drug abuse, illegal drug distribution, counterfeiting, extortion, labor trafficking, unlicensed sale of liquor, or corruption of law enforcement officers or other public officers or employers.
"Person" includes any individual or entity capable of holding a legal or beneficial interest in property and includes nonresident aliens.
"Racketeering activity" means any act or threat involving but not limited to murder, kidnapping, gambling, criminal property damage, robbery, bribery, extortion, labor trafficking, unlicensed sale of liquor, theft, or prostitution, or any dealing in narcotic or other dangerous drugs that is chargeable as a crime under state law and punishable by imprisonment for more than one year.
"Unlawful debt" means a debt incurred or contracted in an illegal gambling activity or business or which is unenforceable under state law in whole or in part as to principal or interest because of the law relating to usury. [L 1972, c 71, pt of §2; am L 1990, c 27, §2; am L 1991, c 175, §1; am L 2011, c 146, §4; am L 2019, c 15, §4]
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