CHAPTER 11
GAMBLING
General Provisions   1
ARTICLE 1
GENERAL PROVISIONS
SECTION:
11-1-1: Gambling Prohibited
11-1-2: Gambling Defined
11-1-3: Permitted Activities
11-1-4: Delivering Of Wagers Or Bets
11-1-5: Video Gaming Prohibited
11-1-6: Electronic Sweepstakes Machines Prohibited
11-1-1: GAMBLING PROHIBITED:
It shall be unlawful to commit gambling in the Village of Oak Park. (1981 Code)
11-1-2: GAMBLING DEFINED:
For purposes of this chapter, a person gambles when he:
   A.   Plays a game of chance or skill for money or other things of value (unless permitted in section 11-1-3 of this article); or
   B.   Makes a wager upon the result of any game, contest, or any political nomination, appointment or election; or
   C.   Operates, keeps, owns, uses, purchases, exhibits, rents, sells, bargains for the sale or lease of, manufactures or distributes any gambling device; or
   D.   Knowingly owns or possesses any book, instrument or apparatus by means of which bets or wagers have been, or are, recorded or registered, or knowingly possesses any money which he has received in the course of a bet or wager; or
   E.   Sells pools upon the result of any game or contest of skills or chance, political nomination, appointment or election; or
   F.   Sets up or promotes any lottery or sells, offers to sell or transfers any ticket or share for any lottery (see subsection 11-1-3D of this article for exemption); or
   G.   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
   H.   Knowingly advertises any lottery or policy game, or drafts, prints, or publishes any lottery ticket or share, or any policy ticket, slip, record, document or similar device or any advertisement of any lottery or public game (see section 11-1-3 of this article for exemption). (1981 Code)
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