(A) No licensee or his or her agents or employees shall permit any person upon the licensed premises to play any games or participate in any activities for money or other article of value or permit any person to bring on the premises any wheel, machine, video gaming terminal, board, dice, slot machine, punchboard or other machine or device used for gambling, except video gaming terminals licensed under the Illinois Video Gaming Act, being 230 ILCS 40.
(B) No licensee or his or her agents or employees shall allow in or about the licensed premises the sale or purchase wherein any part of the article or thing received or to be received, either as to quantity or value, shall in any manner depend upon any chance or hazard, whether by means of checks, cards, envelopes, dice, punchboard or by any means whatever, except at those premises where the licensee obtains:
(1) Applicable state license or permit to conduct or allow others to conduct the game commonly known as “bingo”; or
(2) Is a licensed establishment permitting it to do so under the Illinois Video Gaming Act, being 230 ILCS 40.
(C) Every clock, machine, slot machine, video gaming terminal, punchboard or other machine or device for the reception of money or chance or upon the action of which money is staked, hazarded, bet, won or lost is hereby declared a gambling device and the same shall be seized, confiscated and destroyed by the police of the village wherever found upon the licensed premises or place controlled by the licensee, except video gaming terminals licensed and registered under the Illinois Video Gaming Act, being 230 ILCS 40.
(D) Any individual, partnership or corporation intending to place a video gaming terminal in its establishment shall first file an application for a video gaming licensed establishment permit, which application shall include the following information:
(1) The location for which the license is sought;
(2) A copy of the written, signed lease or rental arrangement or other written authority for use of the equipment at the location;
(3) The number of video gaming terminals to be on the location for which a permit is requested; and
(4) Each application shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable fee of $200. The application fee shall be payable to the village by certified check or money order.
(E) All permits issued hereunder shall be issued by the Village President and attested by the Village Clerk and no permit shall issue until the application therefor shall have been approved by the Village President.
(F) An annual fee of $100 for each video gaming terminal shall be paid in advance on or before May 1 of each year. Each permit shall expire on the last day of April of each year. There shall be no proration of permit fees. The cost of such permit fees shall be shared equally between the terminal operator and the applicable licensed establishment, as provided by state law.
(G) Each licensee shall comply with all requirements of the Illinois Video Gaming Act, being 230 ILCS 40, as amended from time to time.
(H) Under no circumstances shall any person under the age of 21 years be permitted to use or play a video gaming terminal.
(Prior Code, § 5-2-2-1-1) (Ord. 2012-09, passed 10-1-2012; Ord. 2013-01, passed 2-11-2013; Ord. 2022-01, passed - -2022; Ord. 2022-09, passed 4-4-2022) Penalty, see § 130.99