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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 adding |
| 5 | | Section 28 as follows:
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| 6 | | (230 ILCS 40/28 new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 28. Local ordinances. The governing body of a |
| 8 | | municipality or a county board of a county in which video |
| 9 | | gaming has not been prohibited pursuant to Section 27 or 70 of |
| 10 | | this Act may pass an ordinance to (1) limit the number of video |
| 11 | | gaming terminals permitted to operate within the boundaries of |
| 12 | | the municipality or the unincorporated areas of the county and |
| 13 | | (2) place restrictions on the locations of the video gaming |
| 14 | | terminals within the boundaries of the municipality or the |
| 15 | | unincorporated areas of the county, including, but not limited |
| 16 | | to, requiring a mandatory distance in feet between sets of |
| 17 | | video gaming terminals. |
| 18 | | An ordinance adopted under this Section shall not conflict |
| 19 | | with the powers and duties of the Illinois Gaming Board. |
| 20 | | Nothing in this Section shall be construed to grant |
| 21 | | authority to any entity to operate a video gaming terminal |
| 22 | | without a license under this Act.
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