A. Gambling is hereby prohibited within the corporate limits of the Village. A person commits gambling when such person:
1. Plays a game of chance or skill for money or other thing of value, unless excepted in Section 4-5-3; or
2. Makes a wager upon the result of any game, contest or any political nomination, appointment or election; or
3. Operates, keeps, owns, uses, purchases, exhibits, rents, sells, bargains for the sale or lease of, manufactures or distributes any gambling device; or
4. Contracts to have or give himself, herself or another the option to buy or sell, or contracts to buy or sell, at a future time, any grain or other commodity whatsoever, or any stock or security of any company, where it is at the time of making such contract intended by both parties thereto that the contract to buy or sell, or the option, whenever exercised, or the contract resulting therefrom, shall be settled, not by the receipt or delivery of such property, but by the payment only of differences in prices thereof; however, the issuance, purchase, sale, exercise, endorsement or guarantee, by or through a person registered with the Secretary of State pursuant to section 8 of the Illinois Securities Law of 1953, 815 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/8, or by or through a person exempt from such registration under said section 8, of a put, call or other option to buy or sell securities which have been registered with the Secretary of State or which are exempt from such registration under section 3 of the Illinois Securities Law of 1953, 815 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/3, is not gambling within the meaning of this subsection; or
5. Knowingly owns or possesses any hook, instrument or apparatus by means of which bets or wagers have been, or are, recorded or registered or knowingly possesses any money which he or she has received in the course of a bet or wager; or
6. Sells pools upon the result of any game or contest of skill or chance, political nomination, appointment or election; or
7. Sets up or promotes any lottery, or sells, offers to sell or transfers any ticket or share for any lottery; or
8. Sets up or promotes any policy game or sells, offers to sell or knowingly possesses or transfers any policy ticket, slip, record, document or other similar device; or
9. Knowingly drafts, prints or publishes any lottery ticket or share, or any policy ticket, slip, record, document or similar device, except for such activity related to lotteries, bingo games and raffles authorized by and conducted in accordance with the laws of Illinois or any other state or foreign government; or
10. Knowingly advertises any lottery or policy game, except for such activity related to lotteries, bingo games and raffles authorized by and conducted in accordance with the laws of Illinois or any other state; or
11. Knowingly transmits information as to wagers, betting odds or changes in betting odds by telephone, telegraph, radio, semaphore or similar means; or knowingly installs or maintains equipment for the transmission or receipt of such information; except that nothing in this subsection prohibits transmission or receipt of such information for use in news reporting of sporting events or contests.
B. Circumstantial Evidence: In prosecutions under this Section, circumstantial evidence shall have the same validity and weight as in any criminal prosecution.
C. Sentence: Gambling under this Section is a Class A misdemeanor. (Ord. 92-O-40, 1-6-1993; 1996 Code)