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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| HOUSE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY CLYMER, AUMENT, BAKER, BOYD, BROOKS, CREIGHTON, EVERETT, GEIST, GRELL, HARHART, HARRIS, HUTCHINSON, LAWRENCE, MANN, MILNE, MURT, O'NEILL, PERRY, STERN AND WATSON, DECEMBER 15, 2011 |
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| REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAMING OVERSIGHT, DECEMBER 15, 2011 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending Title 4 (Amusements) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated |
2 | Statutes, further providing for Category 1 slot machine |
3 | license, for Category 2 slot machine license and for Category |
4 | 3 slot machine license. |
5 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
6 | hereby enacts as follows: |
7 | Section 1. Sections 1302(b), 1304(b) and 1305(b) of Title 4 |
8 | of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read: |
9 | § 1302. Category 1 slot machine license. |
10 | * * * |
11 | (b) Location.--A Category 1 license may only be issued to an |
12 | eligible person authorizing slot machine operations at the |
13 | particular licensed racetrack facility identified in the |
14 | application. No Category 1 licensed facility shall be located |
15 | within 20 linear miles of another Category 1 licensed facility |
16 | or within ten linear miles of the boundary of a national |
17 | military park or a national memorial designated by the Congress |
18 | of the United States after September 11, 2001. |
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1 | § 1304. Category 2 slot machine license. |
2 | * * * |
3 | (b) Location.-- |
4 | (1) Two Category 2 licensed facilities and no more shall |
5 | be located by the board within a city of the first class, and |
6 | one Category 2 licensed facility and no more shall be located |
7 | by the board within a city of the second class. No Category 2 |
8 | licensed facility located by the board within a city of the |
9 | first class shall be within ten linear miles of a Category 1 |
10 | licensed facility regardless of the municipality where the |
11 | Category 1 licensed facility is located. Except for any |
12 | Category 2 licensed facility located by the board within a |
13 | city of the first class or a city of the second class, no |
14 | Category 2 licensed facility shall be located within 30 |
15 | linear miles of any Category 1 licensed facility that has |
16 | conducted over 200 racing days per year for the two calendar |
17 | years immediately preceding the effective date of this part |
18 | and not within 20 linear miles of any other Category 1 |
19 | licensed facility. Except for any Category 2 licensed |
20 | facility located by the board within a city of the first |
21 | class, no Category 2 licensed facility shall be located |
22 | within 20 linear miles of another Category 2 licensed |
23 | facility or within ten linear miles of the boundary of a |
24 | national military park or a national memorial designated by |
25 | the Congress of the United States after September 11, 2001. |
26 | (2) Within five days of approving a license for an |
27 | applicant with a proposed licensed facility consisting of |
28 | land designated a subzone, an expansion subzone or an |
29 | improvement subzone under the Keystone Opportunity Zone, |
30 | Keystone Opportunity Expansion Zone and Keystone Opportunity |
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1 | Improvement Zone Act for a slot machine license under this |
2 | section, the board shall notify the Department of Community |
3 | and Economic Development. The notice shall include a |
4 | description of the land of the proposed licensed facility |
5 | which is designated a subzone, an expansion subzone or an |
6 | improvement subzone. Within five days of receiving the notice |
7 | required by this paragraph, the Secretary of Community and |
8 | Economic Development shall decertify the land of the proposed |
9 | licensed facility as being a subzone, an expansion subzone or |
10 | an improvement subzone. Upon decertification in accordance |
11 | with this paragraph and notwithstanding Chapter 3 of the |
12 | Keystone Opportunity Zone, Keystone Opportunity Expansion |
13 | Zone and Keystone Opportunity Improvement Zone Act, a |
14 | political subdivision may amend the ordinance, resolution or |
15 | other required action which granted the exemptions, |
16 | deductions, abatements or credits required by the Keystone |
17 | Opportunity Zone, Keystone Opportunity Expansion Zone and |
18 | Keystone Opportunity Improvement Zone Act to repeal the |
19 | exemptions, deductions, abatements or credits for the land |
20 | decertified. |
21 | (3) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the |
22 | governing body of a city of the first class shall not exempt |
23 | from real property taxation or provide any real property tax |
24 | abatement under the act of December 1, 1977 (P.L.237, No.76), |
25 | known as the Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance |
26 | Act, to a Category 2 licensed facility located within the |
27 | city, or any improvements to such facility, unless the owner |
28 | of the licensed facility enters into or has entered into a |
29 | tax settlement agreement or payment in lieu of taxes |
30 | agreement with the city, including any amendments, |
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1 | supplements or modifications of such agreements. |
2 | § 1305. Category 3 slot machine license. |
3 | * * * |
4 | (b) Location.--The following shall apply: |
5 | (1) Except as provided in paragraph (1.1), no Category 3 |
6 | license shall be located by the board within 15 linear miles |
7 | of another licensed facility. |
8 | (1.1) A Category 3 license established on or after July |
9 | 20, 2017, shall not be located by the board within 30 linear |
10 | miles of another licensed facility or within ten linear miles |
11 | of the boundary of a national military park or a national |
12 | memorial designated by the Congress of the United States |
13 | after September 11, 2001. |
14 | (2) Within five days of approving a license for an |
15 | applicant with a proposed licensed facility consisting of |
16 | land designated a subzone, an expansion subzone or an |
17 | improvement subzone under the Keystone Opportunity Zone, |
18 | Keystone Opportunity Expansion Zone and Keystone Opportunity |
19 | Improvement Zone Act for a slot machine license under this |
20 | section, the board shall notify the Department of Community |
21 | and Economic Development. The notice shall include a |
22 | description of the land of the proposed licensed facility |
23 | which is designated a subzone, an expansion subzone or an |
24 | improvement subzone. Within five days of receiving the notice |
25 | required by this paragraph, the Secretary of Community and |
26 | Economic Development shall decertify the land of the proposed |
27 | license facility as being a subzone, an expansion subzone or |
28 | an improvement subzone. Upon decertification in accordance |
29 | with this paragraph and notwithstanding Chapter 3 of the |
30 | Keystone Opportunity Zone, Keystone Opportunity Expansion |
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1 | Zone and Keystone Opportunity Improvement Zone Act, a |
2 | political subdivision may amend the ordinance, resolution or |
3 | other required action which granted the exemptions, |
4 | deductions, abatements or credits required by the Keystone |
5 | Opportunity Zone, Keystone Opportunity Expansion Zone and |
6 | Keystone Opportunity Improvement Zone Act to repeal the |
7 | exemptions, deductions, abatements or credits for the land |
8 | decertified. |
9 | * * * |
10 | Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately. |
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