(A) A person commits gambling when he or she:
(1) Plays a game of chance or skill for money or other thing of value, unless excepted in this Code;
(2) Makes a wager upon the result of any game, contest, or any political nomination, appointment or election;
(3) Operates, keeps, owns, uses, purchases, exhibits, rents, sells, bargains for the sale or lease of, manufactures or distributes any gambling device;
(4) Contracts to have or give himself or another the operation 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 there from, 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 ILCS 5/8 or by or through a person exempt from such registration under 815 ILCS 5/8, 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 ILCS 5/8 is not gambling within the meaning of this paragraph;
(5) Knowingly owns or possesses any book, instrument or apparatus by means of which bets or wages have been or are recorded or registered, or knowingly possesses any money which he has received in the course of a bet or wager;
(6) Sells pools upon the result of any game or contest of skill or chance, political nomination, appointment or election;
(7) Sets up or promotes any lottery or sells, offers to sell or transfers any ticket or share for any lottery;
(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 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 policy game;
(10) Knowingly transmits information as to wagers, betting odds, or chances 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 division prohibits transmission or receipt of such information for use in news reporting of sporting events of contests.
(B) Participants in any of the following activities shall not be considered to have committed the offense of gambling:
(1) The game commonly known as "Bingo" when conducted by certain non-profit organizations holding a license and prescribing to the provisions of the 230 ILCS 25/1.
(2) Raffles when conducted in accordance with Ch. 14 of this Municipal Code and any and all provisions of 230 ILCS 15/2.
(3) Placement and use of a video gaming terminal, if done in accordance with the 230 ILCS 40/1 et seq. as currently enacted and hereinafter amended.
(4) Lotteries conducted in accordance with the Illinois Lottery Law, 20 ILCS 1605/1 et seq.
(C) There is hereby established a $25 annual fee for the operation of each video gaming terminal located in the village pursuant to the provisions of the act.
(D) The annual video gaming terminal fee, as established hereby, shall be paid to The village on or before the initial date of terminal operation, and for terminals then in operation, on, or before, April 30 of each year thereafter. The annual video gaming terminal fee shall not be prorated for periods of less than 12 months.
(Ord. 1723, passed 6-15-2015)