Full Text of HB2520 98th General Assembly
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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 Charitable Games Act is amended by changing | 5 | | Section 2 as follows:
| 6 | | (230 ILCS 30/2) (from Ch. 120, par. 1122)
| 7 | | Sec. 2. Definitions. For purposes of this Act, the | 8 | | following definitions
apply:
| 9 | | "Charitable games" means the 14 games of chance involving | 10 | | cards, dice, wheels, random selection of numbers, and gambling | 11 | | tickets which may be conducted at charitable games events | 12 | | listed as follows: roulette, blackjack, poker, pull tabs, | 13 | | craps, bang, beat the dealer, big six, gin rummy, five card | 14 | | stud poker, chuck-a-luck, keno, hold-em poker, and merchandise | 15 | | wheel. | 16 | | "Charitable games event" or "event" means the type of | 17 | | fundraising event authorized by the Act at which participants | 18 | | pay to play charitable games for the chance of winning cash or | 19 | | noncash prizes. "Charitable games event" or "event" includes a | 20 | | poker run. | 21 | | "Charitable organization" means an organization or | 22 | | institution organized and operated to benefit an indefinite | 23 | | number of the public. |
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| 1 | | "Chips" means scrip, play money, poker or casino chips, or | 2 | | any other representations of money, used to make wagers on the | 3 | | outcome of any charitable game. | 4 | | "Department" means the Department of Revenue.
| 5 | | "Educational organization" means an organization or | 6 | | institution organized and operated to provide systematic | 7 | | instruction in useful branches of learning by methods common to | 8 | | schools and institutions of learning which compare favorably in | 9 | | their scope and intensity with the course of study presented in | 10 | | tax-supported schools. | 11 | | "Fraternal organization" means an organization of persons | 12 | | having a common interest that is organized and operated | 13 | | exclusively to promote the welfare of its members and to | 14 | | benefit the general public on a continuing and consistent | 15 | | basis, including but not limited to ethnic organizations.
| 16 | | "Labor organization" means an organization composed of | 17 | | labor unions or
workers organized with the objective of | 18 | | betterment of the conditions of
those engaged in such pursuit | 19 | | and the development of a higher degree of
efficiency in their | 20 | | respective occupations.
| 21 | | "Licensed organization" means a qualified organization | 22 | | that has obtained a license to conduct a charitable games event | 23 | | in conformance with the provisions of this Act. | 24 | | "Non-profit organization" means an organization or | 25 | | institution organized and conducted on a not-for-profit basis | 26 | | with no personal profit inuring to anyone as a result of the |
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| 1 | | operation.
| 2 | | "Organization": A corporation, agency, partnership,
| 3 | | association, firm, business, or other entity consisting of 2 or | 4 | | more persons joined by
a common interest or purpose.
| 5 | | "Person" means any natural individual, corporation, | 6 | | partnership, limited
liability company, organization as | 7 | | defined in this
Section, qualified organization, licensed | 8 | | organization, licensee under this Act, or volunteer.
| 9 | | "Poker run" means an event organized by a sponsoring | 10 | | organization in which participants travel to 5 or more | 11 | | predetermined locations, drawing a playing card or equivalent | 12 | | item at each location, in order to assemble a facsimile of a | 13 | | poker hand or other numeric score. "Poker run" includes dice | 14 | | runs, marble runs, or other events where the objective is to | 15 | | build the best hand or highest score by obtaining an item at | 16 | | each location. | 17 | | "Premises" means a distinct parcel of land and the | 18 | | buildings thereon. | 19 | | "Provider" means the person or organization owning, | 20 | | leasing, or controlling premises upon which any charitable | 21 | | games event is to be conducted.
| 22 | | "Qualified organization" means:
| 23 | | (a) a charitable, religious, fraternal, veterans, | 24 | | labor , or educational
organization , or other institution | 25 | | organized and conducted on a not-for-profit
basis with no | 26 | | personal profit inuring to anyone as a result of the
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| 1 | | operation and which is exempt from federal income taxation | 2 | | under Sections
501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), 501(c)(5), 501(c)(8), | 3 | | 501(c)(10) or 501(c)(19) of the
Internal Revenue Code;
| 4 | | (b) a veterans organization as defined in Section 1.1
| 5 | | of the
"Bingo License and Tax Act"organized
and conducted | 6 | | on a not-for-profit basis with no personal profit inuring | 7 | | to
anyone as a result of the operation; or
| 8 | | (c) An auxiliary organization of a veterans | 9 | | organization.
| 10 | | "Religious organization" means any church, congregation, | 11 | | society, or organization founded for the purpose of religious | 12 | | worship. | 13 | | "Sponsoring organization" means a qualified organization | 14 | | that has obtained a
license to conduct a charitable games event | 15 | | in conformance with the provisions
of this Act.
| 16 | | "Supplier" means any person, firm, or corporation that | 17 | | sells, leases, lends, distributes, or otherwise provides to any | 18 | | organization licensed to conduct charitable games events in | 19 | | Illinois any charitable games equipment.
| 20 | | "Veterans' organization" means an organization comprised | 21 | | of members of which substantially all are individuals who are | 22 | | veterans or spouses, widows, or widowers of veterans, the | 23 | | primary purpose of which is to promote the welfare of its | 24 | | members and to provide assistance to the general public in such | 25 | | a way as to confer a public benefit. | 26 | | "Volunteer" means a person recruited by a licensed |
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| 1 | | organization who voluntarily performs services at a charitable | 2 | | games event, including participation in the management or | 3 | | operation of a game, as defined in Section 8.
| 4 | | (Source: P.A. 94-986, eff. 6-30-06; 95-228, eff. 8-16-07.)
| 5 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 6 | | becoming law.
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