SB2698 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
SB2698

Introduced 2/15/2008, by Sen. Emil Jones, Jr.

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

230 ILCS 10/20

from Ch. 120, par. 2420

Amends the Riverboat Gambling Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning prohibited activities.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning gaming.

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

Section 5. The Riverboat Gambling Act is amended by changing Section 20 as follows:

(230 ILCS 10/20) (from Ch. 120, par. 2420)

Sec. 20. Prohibited activities - civil penalties. Any person who conducts a gambling operation without first obtaining a license to do so, or who continues to conduct such games after revocation of his license, or any licensee who conducts or allows to be conducted any unauthorized gambling games on a riverboat where it is authorized to conduct its riverboat gambling operation, in addition to other penalties provided, shall be subject to a civil penalty equal to the the amount of gross receipts derived from wagering on the gambling games, whether unauthorized or authorized, conducted on that day as well as confiscation and forfeiture of all gambling game equipment used in the conduct of unauthorized gambling games.

(Source: P.A. 86-1029.)