(A) No licensee under this chapter shall operate or suffer or permit to be operated any dice game or card game for money, stakes, or any other form of gambling or gambling game in any premises licensed hereunder, or suffer or permit such gambling in any room or premises owned, leased, or controlled by such licensee adjacent to the licensed premises and having an entrance therefrom.
(B) (1) The above prohibition on gambling shall not apply to video gaming and associated activities that are authorized pursuant to the state’s Video Gaming Act (230 ILCS 40/1 et seq.). Any local liquor license holder may allow video gaming pursuant to said Act, provided that the local liquor license holder first registers his, her, or its state video gaming license with the village with a copy of a valid state Gaming Board license allowing video gaming on the license holders premises and a copy of all subsequent renewals of the license holder’s state Gaming Board license at the time that the same are issued from the state’s Gaming Board.
(2) There is hereby imposed on any liquor license holder for the privilege of operating video gaming terminals within the village an annual video gaming license fee as hereafter described in division (C) below, which is payable in addition to the local liquor license holder’s fee and which shall be imposed and collected at the same time that the local liquor license holder’s liquor license initial or renewal fee is due.
(3) In the event that an increase is made in the video gaming license fee in the middle of a license holder’s current term, then the increase shall become effective at the time that the license holder’s next liquor license fee becomes due.
(4) The annual video gaming license fee shall be prorated for any existing local liquor license holder that is making its initial registration with the village as a video gaming license holder.
(C) The annual video gaming license fee shall be $25 per video gaming machine authorized to be operated at the video gaming license holder’s establishment.
(Ord. 592, passed 1-4-2021) Penalty, see § 112.999