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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, | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Family | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Amusement Wagering Prohibition Act.
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| 6 | Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act: | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | "Advertise" means to engage in promotional activities, | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | including, but not limited to, newspaper, radio, Internet and | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | electronic media, and television advertising, the distribution | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | of fliers and circulars, billboard advertising, and the | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | display of window and interior signs. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | "Amusement game" means a game or machine which a person | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | activates by inserting or using currency or a coin, card, | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | coupon, slug, token, or similar device, and the person playing | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | or operating the game or machine impacts the outcome of the | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | game. "Amusement game" includes games of skill, games of | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | chance, and games of a combination of skill and chance. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | "Amusement game" does not include video gaming terminals | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | operating in compliance with the Video Gaming Act. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | "Family amusement establishment" means a place of business | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | with amusement games on the premises. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | "Merchandise" means noncash prizes maintained on the | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | premises by the family amusement establishment, including toys | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | and novelties. "Merchandise" does not include any prize or | ||||||
| 2 | other item, if the exchange or conversion to cash or a cash | ||||||
| 3 | equivalent is facilitated or permitted by the family amusement | ||||||
| 4 | establishment. | ||||||
| 5 | "Wager" means a sum of money or thing of value risked on an | ||||||
| 6 | uncertain outcome.
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| 7 | Section 10. Wagering facilitation prohibited. No family | ||||||
| 8 | amusement establishment shall facilitate wagering on amusement | ||||||
| 9 | games. Facilitating wagering on amusement games includes, but | ||||||
| 10 | is not limited to, taking any action that knowingly allows any | ||||||
| 11 | entity to facilitate gambling on amusement games on the family | ||||||
| 12 | amusement establishment's premises.
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| 13 | Section 15. Wagering advertising prohibited. No family | ||||||
| 14 | amusement establishment shall engage in advertising that | ||||||
| 15 | promotes wagering on amusement games.
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| 16 | Section 20. Merchandise prizes. Nothing in this Act shall | ||||||
| 17 | prohibit a family amusement establishment from offering: | ||||||
| 18 | (1) an amusement game that, upon activation and game | ||||||
| 19 | play, entitles or enables a single player to receive a | ||||||
| 20 | coupon or a point that may only be redeemed onsite for | ||||||
| 21 | merchandise and the coupon or point has no value other | ||||||
| 22 | than for redemption onsite for merchandise; or | ||||||
| 23 | (2) an amusement game that allows a single player to | ||||||
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| 1 | manipulate a claw or similar device within an enclosure | ||||||
| 2 | that entitles or enables a person to receive merchandise | ||||||
| 3 | directly from the amusement game.
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| 4 | Section 25. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | changing Section 28-1 as follows:
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| 6 | (720 ILCS 5/28-1) (from Ch. 38, par. 28-1) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 28-1. Gambling. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) A person commits gambling when he or she: | ||||||
| 9 | (1) knowingly plays a game of chance or skill for | ||||||
| 10 | money or other thing of value, unless excepted in | ||||||
| 11 | subsection (b) of this Section; | ||||||
| 12 | (2) knowingly makes a wager upon the result of any | ||||||
| 13 | game, contest, or any political nomination, appointment or | ||||||
| 14 | election; | ||||||
| 15 | (3) knowingly operates, keeps, owns, uses, purchases, | ||||||
| 16 | exhibits, rents, sells, bargains for the sale or lease of, | ||||||
| 17 | manufactures or distributes any gambling device; | ||||||
| 18 | (4) contracts to have or give himself or herself or | ||||||
| 19 | another the option to buy or sell, or contracts to buy or | ||||||
| 20 | sell, at a future time, any grain or other commodity | ||||||
| 21 | whatsoever, or any stock or security of any company, where | ||||||
| 22 | it is at the time of making such contract intended by both | ||||||
| 23 | parties thereto that the contract to buy or sell, or the | ||||||
| 24 | option, whenever exercised, or the contract resulting | ||||||
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| 1 | therefrom, shall be settled, not by the receipt or | ||||||
| 2 | delivery of such property, but by the payment only of | ||||||
| 3 | differences in prices thereof; however, the issuance, | ||||||
| 4 | purchase, sale, exercise, endorsement or guarantee, by or | ||||||
| 5 | through a person registered with the Secretary of State | ||||||
| 6 | pursuant to Section 8 of the Illinois Securities Law of | ||||||
| 7 | 1953, or by or through a person exempt from such | ||||||
| 8 | registration under said Section 8, of a put, call, or | ||||||
| 9 | other option to buy or sell securities which have been | ||||||
| 10 | registered with the Secretary of State or which are exempt | ||||||
| 11 | from such registration under Section 3 of the Illinois | ||||||
| 12 | Securities Law of 1953 is not gambling within the meaning | ||||||
| 13 | of this paragraph (4); | ||||||
| 14 | (5) knowingly owns or possesses any book, instrument | ||||||
| 15 | or apparatus by means of which bets or wagers have been, or | ||||||
| 16 | are, recorded or registered, or knowingly possesses any | ||||||
| 17 | money which he has received in the course of a bet or | ||||||
| 18 | wager; | ||||||
| 19 | (6) knowingly sells pools upon the result of any game | ||||||
| 20 | or contest of skill or chance, political nomination, | ||||||
| 21 | appointment or election; | ||||||
| 22 | (7) knowingly sets up or promotes any lottery or | ||||||
| 23 | sells, offers to sell or transfers any ticket or share for | ||||||
| 24 | any lottery; | ||||||
| 25 | (8) knowingly sets up or promotes any policy game or | ||||||
| 26 | sells, offers to sell or knowingly possesses or transfers | ||||||
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| 1 | any policy ticket, slip, record, document or other similar | ||||||
| 2 | device; | ||||||
| 3 | (9) knowingly drafts, prints or publishes any lottery | ||||||
| 4 | ticket or share, or any policy ticket, slip, record, | ||||||
| 5 | document or similar device, except for such activity | ||||||
| 6 | related to lotteries, bingo games and raffles authorized | ||||||
| 7 | by and conducted in accordance with the laws of Illinois | ||||||
| 8 | or any other state or foreign government; | ||||||
| 9 | (10) knowingly advertises any lottery or policy game, | ||||||
| 10 | except for such activity related to lotteries, bingo games | ||||||
| 11 | and raffles authorized by and conducted in accordance with | ||||||
| 12 | the laws of Illinois or any other state; | ||||||
| 13 | (11) knowingly transmits information as to wagers, | ||||||
| 14 | betting odds, or changes in betting odds by telephone, | ||||||
| 15 | telegraph, radio, semaphore or similar means; or knowingly | ||||||
| 16 | installs or maintains equipment for the transmission or | ||||||
| 17 | receipt of such information; except that nothing in this | ||||||
| 18 | subdivision (11) prohibits transmission or receipt of such | ||||||
| 19 | information for use in news reporting of sporting events | ||||||
| 20 | or contests; or | ||||||
| 21 | (12) knowingly establishes, maintains, or operates an | ||||||
| 22 | Internet site that permits a person to play a game of | ||||||
| 23 | chance or skill for money or other thing of value by means | ||||||
| 24 | of the Internet or to make a wager upon the result of any | ||||||
| 25 | game, contest, political nomination, appointment, or | ||||||
| 26 | election by means of the Internet. This item (12) does not | ||||||
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| 1 | apply to activities referenced in items (6), (6.1), (8), | ||||||
| 2 | (8.1), and (15) of subsection (b) of this Section; or . | ||||||
| 3 | (13) knowingly facilitates wagering on amusement games | ||||||
| 4 | or knowingly engages in advertising that promotes wagering | ||||||
| 5 | on amusement games in violation of the Family Amusement | ||||||
| 6 | Wagering Prohibition Act. | ||||||
| 7 | (b) Participants in any of the following activities shall | ||||||
| 8 | not be convicted of gambling: | ||||||
| 9 | (1) Agreements to compensate for loss caused by the | ||||||
| 10 | happening of chance including without limitation contracts | ||||||
| 11 | of indemnity or guaranty and life or health or accident | ||||||
| 12 | insurance. | ||||||
| 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 to | ||||||
| 16 | the owners of animals or vehicles entered in such contest. | ||||||
| 17 | (3) Pari-mutuel betting as authorized by the law of | ||||||
| 18 | this State. | ||||||
| 19 | (4) Manufacture of gambling devices, including the | ||||||
| 20 | acquisition of essential parts therefor and the assembly | ||||||
| 21 | thereof, for transportation in interstate or foreign | ||||||
| 22 | commerce to any place outside this State when such | ||||||
| 23 | transportation is not prohibited by any applicable Federal | ||||||
| 24 | law; or the manufacture, distribution, or possession of | ||||||
| 25 | video gaming terminals, as defined in the Video Gaming | ||||||
| 26 | Act, by manufacturers, distributors, and terminal | ||||||
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| 1 | operators licensed to do so under the Video Gaming Act. | ||||||
| 2 | (5) The game commonly known as "bingo", when conducted | ||||||
| 3 | in accordance with the Bingo License and Tax Act. | ||||||
| 4 | (6) Lotteries when conducted by the State of Illinois | ||||||
| 5 | in accordance with the Illinois Lottery Law. This | ||||||
| 6 | exemption includes any activity conducted by the | ||||||
| 7 | Department of Revenue to sell lottery tickets pursuant to | ||||||
| 8 | the provisions of the Illinois Lottery Law and its rules. | ||||||
| 9 | (6.1) The purchase of lottery tickets through the | ||||||
| 10 | Internet for a lottery conducted by the State of Illinois | ||||||
| 11 | under the program established in Section 7.12 of the | ||||||
| 12 | Illinois Lottery Law. | ||||||
| 13 | (7) Possession of an antique slot machine that is | ||||||
| 14 | neither used nor intended to be used in the operation or | ||||||
| 15 | promotion of any unlawful gambling activity or enterprise. | ||||||
| 16 | For the purpose of this subparagraph (b)(7), an antique | ||||||
| 17 | slot machine is one manufactured 25 years ago or earlier. | ||||||
| 18 | (8) Raffles and poker runs when conducted in | ||||||
| 19 | accordance with the Raffles and Poker Runs Act. | ||||||
| 20 | (8.1) The purchase of raffle chances for a raffle | ||||||
| 21 | conducted in accordance with the Raffles and Poker Runs | ||||||
| 22 | Act. | ||||||
| 23 | (9) Charitable games when conducted in accordance with | ||||||
| 24 | the Charitable Games Act. | ||||||
| 25 | (10) Pull tabs and jar games when conducted under the | ||||||
| 26 | Illinois Pull Tabs and Jar Games Act. | ||||||
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| 1 | (11) Gambling games when authorized by the Illinois | ||||||
| 2 | Gambling Act. | ||||||
| 3 | (12) Video gaming terminal games at a licensed | ||||||
| 4 | establishment, licensed truck stop establishment, licensed | ||||||
| 5 | large truck stop establishment, licensed fraternal | ||||||
| 6 | establishment, or licensed veterans establishment when | ||||||
| 7 | conducted in accordance with the Video Gaming Act. | ||||||
| 8 | (13) Games of skill or chance where money or other | ||||||
| 9 | things of value can be won but no payment or purchase is | ||||||
| 10 | required to participate. | ||||||
| 11 | (14) Savings promotion raffles authorized under | ||||||
| 12 | Section 5g of the Illinois Banking Act, Section 7008 of | ||||||
| 13 | the Savings Bank Act, Section 42.7 of the Illinois Credit | ||||||
| 14 | Union Act, Section 5136B of the National Bank Act (12 | ||||||
| 15 | U.S.C. 25a), or Section 4 of the Home Owners' Loan Act (12 | ||||||
| 16 | U.S.C. 1463). | ||||||
| 17 | (15) Sports wagering when conducted in accordance with | ||||||
| 18 | the Sports Wagering Act. | ||||||
| 19 | (c) Sentence. | ||||||
| 20 | Gambling is a Class A misdemeanor. A second or subsequent | ||||||
| 21 | conviction under subsections (a)(3) through (a)(12), is a | ||||||
| 22 | Class 4 felony. | ||||||
| 23 | (d) Circumstantial evidence. | ||||||
| 24 | In prosecutions under this Section circumstantial evidence | ||||||
| 25 | shall have the same validity and weight as in any criminal | ||||||
| 26 | prosecution. | ||||||
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