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91_HB0793

 
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Criminal Code  of  1961  by  changing
 2    Sections 28-1, 28-1.1, 28-2, 28-3, 28-5, and 28-7.

 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:

 5        Section 5.  The Criminal  Code  of  1961  is  amended  by
 6    changing Sections 28-1, 28-1.1, 28-2, 28-3, 28-5, and 28-7 as
 7    follows:

 8        (720 ILCS 5/28-1) (from Ch. 38, par. 28-1)
 9        Sec. 28-1.  Gambling.
10        (a)  A person commits gambling when he:
11             (1)  Plays  a  game  of chance or skill for money or
12        other thing of value, unless excepted in  subsection  (b)
13        of this Section; or
14             (2)  Makes  a  wager  upon  the  result of any game,
15        contest, or  any  political  nomination,  appointment  or
16        election; or
17             (3)  Operates,   keeps,   owns,   uses,   purchases,
18        exhibits,  rents,  sells,  bargains for the sale or lease
19        of, manufactures or distributes any gambling device; or
20             (4)  Contracts to have or give  himself  or  another
21        the  option  to buy or sell, or contracts to buy or sell,
22        at  a  future  time,  any  grain   or   other   commodity
23        whatsoever,  or  any  stock  or  security of any company,
24        where it is at the time of making such contract  intended
25        by both parties thereto that the contract to buy or sell,
26        or  the  option,  whenever  exercised,  or  the  contract
27        resulting therefrom, shall be settled, not by the receipt
28        or  delivery of such property, but by the payment only of
29        differences in prices  thereof;  however,  the  issuance,
30        purchase, sale, exercise, endorsement or guarantee, by or
31        through  a  person registered with the Secretary of State
 
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 1        pursuant to Section 8 of the Illinois Securities  Law  of
 2        1953,  or  by  or  through  a  person  exempt  from  such
 3        registration  under  said  Section  8, of a put, call, or
 4        other option to buy or sell securities  which  have  been
 5        registered  with  the  Secretary  of  State  or which are
 6        exempt from such registration  under  Section  3  of  the
 7        Illinois  Securities  Law  of 1953 is not gambling within
 8        the meaning of this paragraph (4); or
 9             (5)  Knowingly   owns   or   possesses   any   book,
10        instrument or apparatus by means of which bets or  wagers
11        have  been,  or are, recorded or registered, or knowingly
12        possesses any money which he has received in  the  course
13        of a bet or wager; or
14             (6)  Sells  pools  upon  the  result  of any game or
15        contest  of  skill  or  chance,   political   nomination,
16        appointment or election; or
17             (7)  Sets  up  or  promotes  any  lottery  or sells,
18        offers to sell or transfers any ticket or share  for  any
19        lottery; or
20             (8)  Sets  up  or promotes any policy game or sells,
21        offers to sell or knowingly possesses  or  transfers  any
22        policy  ticket,  slip,  record, document or other similar
23        device; or
24             (9)  Knowingly  drafts,  prints  or  publishes   any
25        lottery  ticket  or  share,  or  any policy ticket, slip,
26        record, document  or  similar  device,  except  for  such
27        activity  related  to  lotteries, bingo games and raffles
28        authorized by and conducted in accordance with  the  laws
29        of Illinois or any other state or foreign government; or
30             (10)  Knowingly  advertises  any  lottery  or policy
31        game, except for  such  activity  related  to  lotteries,
32        bingo  games  and  raffles authorized by and conducted in
33        accordance with the laws of Illinois or any other  state;
34        or
 
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 1             (11)  Knowingly  transmits information as to wagers,
 2        betting odds, or changes in betting  odds  by  telephone,
 3        telegraph,   radio,   semaphore   or  similar  means;  or
 4        knowingly  installs  or  maintains  equipment   for   the
 5        transmission  or receipt of such information; except that
 6        nothing in this subdivision (11)  prohibits  transmission
 7        or  receipt of such information for use in news reporting
 8        of sporting events or contests; or .
 9             (12)  Knowingly accesses the Internet to  engage  in
10        an act prohibited by any of subdivisions (1) through (11)
11        of this subsection (a).
12        (b)  Participants  in  any  of  the  following activities
13    shall not be convicted of gambling therefor:
14             (1)  Agreements to compensate for loss caused by the
15        happening  of   chance   including   without   limitation
16        contracts  of indemnity or guaranty and life or health or
17        accident insurance;
18             (2)  Offers of prizes, award or compensation to  the
19        actual  contestants  in  any  bona  fide  contest for the
20        determination of skill, speed, strength or  endurance  or
21        to  the  owners  of  animals  or vehicles entered in such
22        contest;
23             (3)  Pari-mutuel betting as authorized by the law of
24        this State;
25             (4)  Manufacture of gambling devices, including  the
26        acquisition  of essential parts therefor and the assembly
27        thereof, for  transportation  in  interstate  or  foreign
28        commerce  to  any  place  outside  this  State  when such
29        transportation  is  not  prohibited  by  any   applicable
30        Federal law;
31             (5)  The   game  commonly  known  as  "bingo",  when
32        conducted in accordance with the Bingo  License  and  Tax
33        Act;
34             (6)  Lotteries   when  conducted  by  the  State  of
 
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 1        Illinois in accordance with the Illinois Lottery Law;
 2             (7)  Possession of an antique slot machine  that  is
 3        neither  used nor intended to be used in the operation or
 4        promotion  of   any   unlawful   gambling   activity   or
 5        enterprise.  For the purpose of this subparagraph (b)(7),
 6        an  antique slot machine is one manufactured 25 years ago
 7        or earlier;
 8             (8)  Raffles when conducted in accordance  with  the
 9        Raffles Act;
10             (9)  Charitable  games  when conducted in accordance
11        with the Charitable Games Act;
12             (10)  Pull tabs and jar games when  conducted  under
13        the Illinois Pull Tabs and Jar Games Act; or
14             (11)  Gambling  games  conducted  on riverboats when
15        authorized by the Riverboat Gambling Act.
16        (c)  Sentence.
17        Gambling  under  subsection  (a)(1)  or  (a)(2)  of  this
18    Section is a Class A  misdemeanor.   Gambling  under  any  of
19    subsections (a)(3) through (a)(11) of this Section is a Class
20    A  misdemeanor.   A second or subsequent conviction under any
21    of subsections (a)(3) through (a)(11), is a Class 4 felony.
22    Gambling under subsection (a)(12) of this Section is a  Class
23    A  misdemeanor  if the access of the Internet is to engage in
24    an act prohibited by subsection  (a)(1)  or  (a)(2)  of  this
25    Section.   Gambling  under  subsection  (a)(12)  is a Class A
26    misdemeanor for a first offense if the access of the Internet
27    is to engage in an  act  prohibited  by  any  of  subsections
28    (a)(3)   through  (a)(11)  of  this  Section.   A  second  or
29    subsequent  conviction  under  subsection  (a)(12)  of   this
30    Section  is a Class 4 felony if the access of the Internet is
31    to engage in an act prohibited by any of  subsections  (a)(3)
32    through (a)(11) of this Section.
33        (d)  Circumstantial evidence.
34        In  prosecutions  under subsection (a)(1) through (a)(12)
 
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 1    (a)(11) of this Section circumstantial  evidence  shall  have
 2    the same validity and weight as in any criminal prosecution.
 3    (Source: P.A. 86-1029; 87-435.)

 4        (720 ILCS 5/28-1.1) (from Ch. 38, par. 28-1.1)
 5        Sec. 28-1.1.  Syndicated gambling.
 6        (a)  Declaration   of   Purpose.  Recognizing  the  close
 7    relationship  between   professional   gambling   and   other
 8    organized  crime,  it  is  declared  to  be the policy of the
 9    legislature to restrain persons from engaging in the business
10    of gambling for profit in this State.  This Section shall  be
11    liberally  construed and administered with a view to carrying
12    out this policy.
13        (b)  A  person  commits  syndicated  gambling   when   he
14    operates  a  "policy  game"  or  engages  in  the business of
15    bookmaking.
16        (c)  A person "operates a policy game" when he  knowingly
17    uses any premises or property for the purpose of receiving or
18    knowingly does receive from what is commonly called "policy":
19             (1)  money  from  a  person other than the better or
20        player whose bets or plays are represented by such money;
21        or
22             (2)  written or computer  accessible  "policy  game"
23        records,  made  or  used  over any period of time, from a
24        person other than the better  or  player  whose  bets  or
25        plays   are  represented  by  such  written  or  computer
26        accessible record.
27        (d)  A person engages in bookmaking when he  receives  or
28    accepts  more than five bets or wagers upon the result of any
29    trials or contests of skill, speed or power of  endurance  or
30    upon  any  lot, chance, casualty, unknown or contingent event
31    whatsoever, which bets or wagers shall be of such  size  that
32    the total of the amounts of money paid or promised to be paid
33    to  such  bookmaker  on  account thereof shall exceed $2,000.
 
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 1    Bookmaking is the receiving or  accepting  of  such  bets  or
 2    wagers  regardless  of  the  form  or  manner  in  which  the
 3    bookmaker records them.
 4        (d-5)  A  person  commits  syndicated gambling when he or
 5    she accesses the Internet to operate a "policy  game"  or  to
 6    engage in the business of bookmaking.
 7        (e)  Participants  in  any  of  the  following activities
 8    shall not be convicted of syndicated gambling:
 9             (1)  Agreements to compensate for loss caused by the
10        happening  of   chance   including   without   limitation
11        contracts  of indemnity or guaranty and life or health or
12        accident insurance; and
13             (2)  Offers of prizes, award or compensation to  the
14        actual  contestants  in  any  bona  fide  contest for the
15        determination of skill, speed, strength or  endurance  or
16        to  the  owners  of  animals  or vehicles entered in such
17        contest; and
18             (3)  Pari-mutuel betting as  authorized  by  law  of
19        this State; and
20             (4)  Manufacture  of gambling devices, including the
21        acquisition of essential parts therefor and the  assembly
22        thereof,  for  transportation  in  interstate  or foreign
23        commerce to  any  place  outside  this  State  when  such
24        transportation   is  not  prohibited  by  any  applicable
25        Federal law; and
26             (5)  Raffles when conducted in accordance  with  the
27        Raffles Act; and
28             (6)  Gambling  games  conducted  on  riverboats when
29        authorized by the Riverboat Gambling Act.
30        (f)  Sentence.  Syndicated gambling is a Class 3 felony.
31    (Source: P.A. 86-1029; 87-435.)

32        (720 ILCS 5/28-2) (from Ch. 38, par. 28-2)
33        Sec. 28-2.  Definitions.
 
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 1        (a)  A "gambling device" is any clock, tape machine, slot
 2    machine or other machines or  device  for  the  reception  of
 3    money  or other thing of value on chance or skill or upon the
 4    action of which money or other  thing  of  value  is  staked,
 5    hazarded,  bet,  won  or  lost;  or any mechanism, furniture,
 6    fixture, equipment or other device designed primarily for use
 7    in a gambling place. A "gambling device" does not include:
 8             (1)  A coin-in-the-slot operated  mechanical  device
 9        played  for  amusement  which rewards the player with the
10        right to replay such mechanical device, which  device  is
11        so  constructed  or devised as to make such result of the
12        operation thereof depend in part upon the  skill  of  the
13        player  and which returns to the player thereof no money,
14        property or right to receive money or property.
15             (2)  Vending machines by  which  full  and  adequate
16        return  is made for the money invested and in which there
17        is no element of chance or hazard.
18             (3)  A  crane  game.   For  the  purposes  of   this
19        paragraph  (3),  a  "crane  game"  is an amusement device
20        involving skill, if it  rewards  the  player  exclusively
21        with  merchandise  contained  within the amusement device
22        proper and limited to toys, novelties  and  prizes  other
23        than currency, each having a wholesale value which is not
24        more  than 7 times the cost charged to play the amusement
25        device once or $5, whichever is less.
26             (4)  A redemption machine.  For the purposes of this
27        paragraph (4), a "redemption machine" is a  single-player
28        or  multi-player  amusement  device involving a game, the
29        object of which is throwing, rolling, bowling,  shooting,
30        placing, or propelling a ball or other object into, upon,
31        or  against  a hole or other target, provided that all of
32        the following conditions are met:
33                  (A)  The outcome of the game  is  predominantly
34             determined by the skill of the player.
 
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 1                  (B)  The  award  of  the  prize is based solely
 2             upon the player's achieving the object of  the  game
 3             or otherwise upon the player's score.
 4                  (C)  Only merchandise prizes are awarded.
 5                  (D)  The  average  wholesale  value  of  prizes
 6             awarded in lieu of tickets or tokens for single play
 7             of  the device does not exceed the lesser of $5 or 7
 8             times the cost charged for  a  single  play  of  the
 9             device.
10                  (E)  The  redemption  value of tickets, tokens,
11             and other representations of  value,  which  may  be
12             accumulated  by  players to redeem prizes of greater
13             value, does not exceed  the  amount  charged  for  a
14             single play of the device.
15        (a-5)  "Internet"  means  an interactive computer service
16    or system  or  an  information  service,  system,  or  access
17    software provider that provides or enables computer access by
18    multiple users to a computer server, and includes, but is not
19    limited   to,  an  information  service,  system,  or  access
20    software provider that provides access to  a  network  system
21    commonly  known  as the Internet, or any comparable system or
22    service and also includes, but is not  limited  to,  a  World
23    Wide  Web  page,  newsgroup,  message board, mailing list, or
24    chat area on any interactive computer service  or  system  or
25    other online service.
26        (a-6)  "Access" and "computer" have the meanings ascribed
27    to them in Section 16D-2 of this Code.
28        (b)  A  "lottery"  is any scheme or procedure whereby one
29    or more prizes are distributed by chance  among  persons  who
30    have  paid or promised consideration for a chance to win such
31    prizes, whether such scheme or procedure is called a lottery,
32    raffle, gift, sale or some other name.
33        (c)  A "policy game" is any scheme or procedure whereby a
34    person  promises  or  guarantees  by  any  instrument,  bill,
 
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 1    certificate,  writing,  token  or  other  device   that   any
 2    particular  number, character, ticket or certificate shall in
 3    the event of any contingency  in  the  nature  of  a  lottery
 4    entitle the purchaser or holder to receive money, property or
 5    evidence of debt.
 6    (Source: P.A. 87-855.)

 7        (720 ILCS 5/28-3) (from Ch. 38, par. 28-3)
 8        Sec.  28-3.  Keeping a Gambling Place. A "gambling place"
 9    is any real estate,  vehicle,  boat  or  any  other  property
10    whatsoever  used  for  the  purposes  of  gambling other than
11    gambling conducted in the manner authorized by the  Riverboat
12    Gambling  Act.   A  "gambling  place"  includes premises or a
13    building knowingly used by  the  owner  to  conduct  gambling
14    games prohibited by Section 28-1 by use of the Internet or to
15    conduct  syndicated  gambling  under Section 28-1.1 by use of
16    the Internet.  Any person who knowingly permits any  premises
17    or  property owned or occupied by him or under his control to
18    be used as a gambling place commits a  Class  A  misdemeanor.
19    Each  subsequent  offense  is  a  Class  4  felony.  When any
20    premises is determined by the circuit court to be a  gambling
21    place:
22        (a)  Such  premises  is  a  public  nuisance  and  may be
23    proceeded against as such, and
24        (b)  All licenses, permits or certificates issued by  the
25    State of Illinois or any subdivision or public agency thereof
26    authorizing  the  serving  of food or liquor on such premises
27    shall be void; and  no  license,  permit  or  certificate  so
28    cancelled shall be reissued for such premises for a period of
29    60 days thereafter; nor shall any person convicted of keeping
30    a  gambling  place be reissued such license for one year from
31    his conviction and, after a second conviction  of  keeping  a
32    gambling  place,  any  such person shall not be reissued such
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 1        (c)  Such premises of any person  who  knowingly  permits
 2    thereon  a  violation of any Section of this Article shall be
 3    held liable for, and may  be  sold  to  pay  any  unsatisfied
 4    judgment  that may be recovered and any unsatisfied fine that
 5    may be levied under any Section of this Article.
 6    (Source: P.A. 86-1029.)

 7        (720 ILCS 5/28-5) (from Ch. 38, par. 28-5)
 8        Sec. 28-5.  Seizure  of  gambling  devices  and  gambling
 9    funds.
10        (a)  Every   device   designed   for  gambling  which  is
11    incapable of lawful use or every device used  unlawfully  for
12    gambling  including  a computer or computer server used in an
13    Internet gambling operation but does not include  a  computer
14    used  by  a person to place a bet or wager if the person does
15    not use the computer for the conduct of a gambling operation,
16     shall be  considered  a  "gambling  device",  and  shall  be
17    subject  to  seizure,  confiscation  and  destruction  by the
18    Department of State Police or  by  any  municipal,  or  other
19    local  authority,  within  whose jurisdiction the same may be
20    found.  As used in this Section, a "gambling device" includes
21    any  slot  machine,  and  includes  any  machine  or   device
22    constructed  for  the  reception  of  money or other thing of
23    value and so constructed as to return, or to cause someone to
24    return, on chance to the player thereof money, property or  a
25    right  to  receive  money or property.  With the exception of
26    any device designed for gambling which is incapable of lawful
27    use, no gambling  device  shall  be  forfeited  or  destroyed
28    unless  an individual with a property interest in said device
29    knows of the unlawful use of the device.
30        (b)  Every gambling device shall be seized and  forfeited
31    to  the  county  wherein  such  seizure occurs.  Any money or
32    other thing of value integrally related to acts  of  gambling
33    shall  be  seized  and  forfeited  to the county wherein such
 
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 1    seizure occurs.
 2        (c)  If, within 60 days after  any  seizure  pursuant  to
 3    subparagraph  (b)  of  this  Section,  a  person  having  any
 4    property  interest  in the seized property is charged with an
 5    offense, the court which renders judgment  upon  such  charge
 6    shall,   within  30  days  after  such  judgment,  conduct  a
 7    forfeiture hearing to determine whether such property  was  a
 8    gambling  device  at the time of seizure.  Such hearing shall
 9    be commenced by a written petition by  the  State,  including
10    material  allegations  of fact, the name and address of every
11    person determined by the State to have any property  interest
12    in  the seized property, a representation that written notice
13    of the date, time and place of such hearing has  been  mailed
14    to  every  such  person  by  certified  mail at least 10 days
15    before such date, and a request for forfeiture.   Every  such
16    person  may  appear  as  a party and present evidence at such
17    hearing.   The  quantum  of  proof  required   shall   be   a
18    preponderance  of the evidence, and the burden of proof shall
19    be on the State.  If the court  determines  that  the  seized
20    property  was  a  gambling  device at the time of seizure, an
21    order of forfeiture and disposition of  the  seized  property
22    shall  be entered: a gambling device shall be received by the
23    State's Attorney, who shall effect  its  destruction,  except
24    that  valuable  parts  thereof  may  be  liquidated  and  the
25    resultant money shall be deposited in the general fund of the
26    county  wherein such seizure occurred; money and other things
27    of value shall be received by the State's Attorney and,  upon
28    liquidation,  shall  be  deposited in the general fund of the
29    county wherein such seizure occurred.  However, in the  event
30    that  a  defendant  raises  the  defense that the seized slot
31    machine is an antique slot machine described in  subparagraph
32    (b)  (7)  of  Section  28-1 of this Code and therefore  he is
33    exempt from the charge of a  gambling  activity  participant,
34    the  seized  antique  slot  machine shall not be destroyed or
 
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 1    otherwise altered until a final determination is made by  the
 2    Court as to whether it is such an antique slot machine.  Upon
 3    a  final determination by the Court of this question in favor
 4    of the defendant, such  slot  machine  shall  be  immediately
 5    returned  to  the  defendant.   Such  order of forfeiture and
 6    disposition shall, for the purposes of  appeal,  be  a  final
 7    order and judgment in a civil proceeding.
 8        (d)  If  a  seizure  pursuant to subparagraph (b) of this
 9    Section is not followed by a charge pursuant to  subparagraph
10    (c)  of this Section, or if the prosecution of such charge is
11    permanently terminated or indefinitely  discontinued  without
12    any  judgment  of  conviction  or  acquittal  (1) the State's
13    Attorney  shall  commence  an  in  rem  proceeding  for   the
14    forfeiture  and  destruction of a gambling device, or for the
15    forfeiture and deposit in the general fund of the  county  of
16    any  seized  money  or other things of value, or both, in the
17    circuit court and (2) any person having any property interest
18    in such seized gambling device, money or other thing of value
19    may  commence  separate  civil  proceedings  in  the   manner
20    provided by law.
21        (e)  Any   gambling   device  displayed  for  sale  to  a
22    riverboat gambling operation or used  to  train  occupational
23    licensees  of  a  riverboat  gambling operation as authorized
24    under the Riverboat Gambling Act is exempt from seizure under
25    this Section.
26        (f)  Any  gambling  equipment,   devices   and   supplies
27    provided  by  a  licensed  supplier  in  accordance  with the
28    Riverboat Gambling Act which are removed from  the  riverboat
29    for repair are exempt from seizure under this Section.
30    (Source: P.A. 87-826.)

31        (720 ILCS 5/28-7) (from Ch. 38, par. 28-7)
32        Sec. 28-7. Gambling contracts void.
33        (a)  All   promises,   notes,  bills,  bonds,  covenants,
 
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 1    contracts,  agreements,  judgments,   mortgages,   or   other
 2    securities  or  conveyances  made,  given, granted, drawn, or
 3    entered into, or executed by any person whatsoever, where the
 4    whole or any part of the consideration  thereof  is  for  any
 5    money  or thing of value, won or obtained in violation of any
 6    Section  of  this  Article  are  null  and  void,   including
 7    contracts,   debts,   or  obligations  incurred  by  Internet
 8    gambling.
 9        (b)  Any obligation void under this Section  may  be  set
10    aside  and  vacated  by  any court of competent jurisdiction,
11    upon a complaint filed for that purpose,  by  the  person  so
12    granting, giving, entering into, or executing the same, or by
13    his  executors  or  administrators, or by any creditor, heir,
14    legatee, purchaser or other person interested therein; or  if
15    a judgment, the same may be set aside on motion of any person
16    stated above, on due notice thereof given.
17        (c)  No  assignment  of  any  obligation  void under this
18    Section may in any manner affect the defense  of  the  person
19    giving,  granting,  drawing,  entering into or executing such
20    obligation, or the remedies of any person interested therein.
21        (d)  This Section shall not prevent a licensed owner of a
22    riverboat gambling operation  from  instituting  a  cause  of
23    action to collect any amount due and owing under an extension
24    of  credit to a riverboat gambling patron as authorized under
25    the Riverboat Gambling Act.
26    (Source: P.A. 87-826.)

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