A. Gambling Prohibited: Gambling is hereby prohibited and any person who gambles commits a violation of this section. A person commits gambling when he/she:
1. Plays a game of chance or skill for money or other thing of value, except for video gaming pursuant to 230 Illinois Compiled Statutes 40/1 et seq., which is hereby permitted, unless excepted in 720 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/28-1; 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 in the village, except that operating, keeping, owning, purchasing, exhibiting, renting, selling, repairing, leasing, distributing or retrieving any video gaming terminal as authorized by 230 Illinois Compiled Statutes 40/1 et seq., shall not be a violation of this section; or
4. Contracts to have or give himself 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 815 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/8 section 8 of the Illinois securities law of 1953, 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 815 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/3 section 3 of the Illinois securities law of 1953, is not gambling within the meaning of this subsection A4; or
5. 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
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.
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 A11 prohibits transmission or receipt of such information for use in news reporting events or contents. (Ord. 2013-01-08A, 1-8-2013)
B. Keeping A Gambling Place:
1. Definition: A "gambling place" is any real estate, vehicle, boat or any other property whatsoever used for the purposes of gambling other than gambling conducted in the manner authorized by the riverboat gambling act.
2. Prohibited: Any person who knowingly permits any premises or property owned or occupied by him or under his control to be used as a gambling place commits a violation of this section. When any premises is determined by the circuit court to be a gambling place:
a. Such premises is a public nuisance and may be proceeded against as such; and
b. All licenses, permits or certificates issued by the state of Illinois or any subdivision or public agency thereof authorizing the serving of food or liquor on such premises shall be void; and no license, permit or certificate so canceled shall be reissued for such premises for a period of sixty (60) days thereafter; nor shall any person convicted of keeping a gambling place be reissued such license for one year from his conviction and, after a second conviction of keeping a gambling place, any such person shall not be reissued such license; and
c. Such premises of any person who knowingly permits thereon a violation of any subsection of this section shall be held liable for, and may be sold to pay any unsatisfied judgment that may be recovered and any unsatisfied fine that may be levied under any subsection of this section. (Ord. 615, 3-6-1995)