A. Prohibition: It shall be unlawful for any person owning, possessing or operating any mechanical amusement device, pinball game or machine, pool table, billiard table, maintenance bowling machine, shuffleboard game (whether electronic or otherwise) or any other amusement device or machine to permit said machine or any scheme whatsoever to dispense any form of payoff, prize, or reward, except free games dispensed by the machine, and nothing in this chapter shall in any way be construed to authorize, license or permit any gambling device whatsoever, or any mechanism which has been judicially determined to be a gambling device, or in any way contrary to the laws of the State.
B. Exception; Video Gaming, Fee:
1. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection A of this section, the prohibitions provided in this chapter and any other chapter of this Code that may reference or govern gambling or gambling devices within the Village shall not prohibit any device, equipment, paraphernalia or activity authorized and operated in full compliance with the Illinois Video Gaming Act 1 , including, but not limited to, video gaming terminals and equipment ancillary thereto.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection A of this section, a yearly fee of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) for each video gaming terminal utilized in compliance with the Illinois Video Gaming Act shall be paid in advance on or before May 1 of each year. The application for an annual permit, including renewal applications, shall be filed each year along with payment of the yearly fee. 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. (Ord. 11-01-12, 11-27-2012, eff. 11-28-2012; amd. 2017 Code; Ord. 02-01-22, 3-8-2022)
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| 1 | 230 ILCS 40/1 et seq. |