Full Text of HB0810 95th General Assembly
HB0810eng 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by changing | 5 |
| Section 28-2 as follows:
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| (720 ILCS 5/28-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 28-2)
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| Sec. 28-2. Definitions.
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| (a) A "gambling device" is any clock, tape machine, slot | 9 |
| machine or
other machines or device for the reception of money | 10 |
| or other thing of value
on chance or skill or upon the action | 11 |
| of which money or other thing of
value is staked, hazarded, | 12 |
| bet, won or lost; or any mechanism, furniture,
fixture, | 13 |
| equipment or other device designed primarily for use in a | 14 |
| gambling
place. A "gambling device" does not include:
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| (1) A coin-in-the-slot operated mechanical device | 16 |
| played for amusement
which rewards the player with the | 17 |
| right to replay such mechanical device,
which device is so | 18 |
| constructed or devised as to make such result of the
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| operation thereof depend in part upon the skill of the | 20 |
| player and which
returns to the player thereof no money, | 21 |
| property or right to receive money
or property.
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| (2) Vending machines by which full and adequate return | 23 |
| is made for the
money invested and in which there is no |
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| element of chance or hazard.
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| (3) A crane game. For the purposes of this paragraph | 3 |
| (3), a "crane
game" is an amusement device involving skill, | 4 |
| if it rewards the player
exclusively with merchandise | 5 |
| contained within the amusement device proper
and limited to | 6 |
| toys, novelties and prizes other than currency, each having
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| a wholesale value which is not more than $25
7 times the | 8 |
| cost charged to play
the amusement device once or $5, | 9 |
| whichever is less .
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| (4) A redemption machine. For the purposes of this | 11 |
| paragraph (4), a
"redemption machine" is a single-player or | 12 |
| multi-player amusement device
involving a game, the object | 13 |
| of which is throwing, rolling, bowling,
shooting, placing, | 14 |
| or propelling a ball or other object into, upon, or
against | 15 |
| a hole or other target, provided that all of the following
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| conditions are met:
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| (A) The outcome of the game is predominantly | 18 |
| determined by the
skill of the player.
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| (B) The award of the prize is based solely upon the | 20 |
| player's
achieving the object of the game or otherwise | 21 |
| upon the player's score.
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| (C) Only merchandise prizes are awarded.
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| (D) The average wholesale value of prizes awarded | 24 |
| in lieu of tickets
or tokens for single play of the | 25 |
| device does not exceed $25
the lesser of $5 or
7 times | 26 |
| the cost charged for a single play of the device .
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| (E) The redemption value of tickets, tokens, and | 2 |
| other representations
of value, which may be | 3 |
| accumulated by players to redeem prizes of greater
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| value, does not exceed the amount charged for a single | 5 |
| play of the device.
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| (a-5) "Internet" means an interactive computer service or | 7 |
| system or an
information service, system, or access software | 8 |
| provider that provides or
enables computer access by multiple | 9 |
| users to a computer server, and includes,
but is not limited | 10 |
| to, an information service, system, or access software
provider | 11 |
| that provides access to a network system commonly known as the
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| Internet, or any comparable system or service and also | 13 |
| includes, but is not
limited to, a World Wide Web page, | 14 |
| newsgroup, message board, mailing list, or
chat area on any | 15 |
| interactive computer service or system or other online
service.
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| (a-6) "Access" and "computer" have the meanings ascribed to | 17 |
| them in
Section
16D-2 of this Code.
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| (b) A "lottery" is any scheme or procedure whereby one or | 19 |
| more prizes
are distributed by chance among persons who have | 20 |
| paid or promised
consideration for a chance to win such prizes, | 21 |
| whether such scheme or
procedure is called a lottery, raffle, | 22 |
| gift, sale or some other name.
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| (c) A "policy game" is any scheme or procedure whereby a | 24 |
| person promises
or guarantees by any instrument, bill, | 25 |
| certificate, writing, token or other
device that any particular | 26 |
| number, character, ticket or certificate shall
in the event of |
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| any contingency in the nature of a lottery entitle the
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| purchaser or holder to receive money, property or evidence of | 3 |
| debt.
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| (Source: P.A. 91-257, eff. 1-1-00.)
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