94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
SB0938

 

Introduced 2/18/2005, by Sen. Ira I. Silverstein - Emil Jones, Jr.

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
230 ILCS 10/20   from Ch. 120, par. 2420

    Amends the Riverboat Gambling Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning prohibited activities.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning gaming.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Riverboat Gambling Act is amended by
5 changing Section 20 as follows:
 
6     (230 ILCS 10/20)  (from Ch. 120, par. 2420)
7     Sec. 20. Prohibited activities - civil penalties. Any
8 person who conducts a gambling operation without first
9 obtaining a license to do so, or who continues to conduct such
10 games after revocation of his license, or any licensee who
11 conducts or allows to be conducted any unauthorized gambling
12 games on a riverboat where it is authorized to conduct its
13 riverboat gambling operation, in addition to other penalties
14 provided, shall be subject to a civil penalty equal to the the
15 amount of gross receipts derived from wagering on the gambling
16 games, whether unauthorized or authorized, conducted on that
17 day as well as confiscation and forfeiture of all gambling game
18 equipment used in the conduct of unauthorized gambling games.
19 (Source: P.A. 86-1029.)