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| | 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
SB3166 Introduced 2/15/2018, by Sen. Terry Link SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Video Gaming Act. Provides that the Illinois Gaming Board may grant licenses to permit video gaming in a licensed veterans establishment within a municipality or unincorporated area of a county that has prohibited video gaming. Effective immediately.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning gaming.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Video Gaming
Act is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 27 as follows:
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| 6 | | (230 ILCS 40/27)
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| 7 | | Sec. 27. Prohibition of video gaming by political |
| 8 | | subdivision. |
| 9 | | (a) A
municipality may
pass an ordinance prohibiting video |
| 10 | | gaming within the corporate limits of the
municipality.
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| 11 | | county board may, for the unincorporated area of the county, |
| 12 | | pass an
ordinance prohibiting video gaming within the |
| 13 | | unincorporated area of the
county.
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| 14 | | (b) The Board, however, may grant licenses to permit video |
| 15 | | gaming in a licensed veterans establishment within a |
| 16 | | municipality or unincorporated area of a county that has |
| 17 | | prohibited video gaming under subsection (a). |
| 18 | | (Source: P.A. 96-34, eff. 7-13-09.)
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| 19 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
| 20 | | becoming law.
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