Bill Text: IL SB0739 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-08-15 - Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments [SB0739 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-SB0739-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 SB0739 Introduced 2/6/2009, by Sen. John J. Cullerton 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.
LRB096 06807 AMC 16893 b
A BILL FOR
SB0739 LRB096 06807 AMC 16893 b
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.)