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8/24/2009
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AN ORDINANCE
Enacting a New Subsection 9-5-8-9
of the Evanston City Code,
"Video Gambling Prohibited"
WHEREAS, the Video Gaming Act (230 ILCS 40/1 et seq.),
effective July 13, 2009, permits certain establishments to allow up to five (5)
video gaming terminals in such establishments; and
WHEREAS, the Video Gaming Act, in Section 27, permits a
municipality to pass an ordinance prohibiting video gaming within its corporate
limits; and
is WHEREAS , "video gaming" means the ownership, placement,
maintenance, operation, or use of a video gaming terminal in a public place or in
a fraternal or veteran's establishment; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Evanston finds that
legalized video gaming would present a variety of negative impacts upon the
residents of the City, including impact on the cost of law enforcement, regulatory
difficulties, and high social costs; and
WHEREAS, the City Council finds that it is in the best interests of ;r=
the City to exercise its right under Section 27 of the Video Gaming Act to prohibit
video gaming, as defined in said statute, from all areas within the corporate limits
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N0lfill, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EVANSTON:
a part hereof.
SECTION 1: That the foregoing recitals are found as fact and made
SECTION 2: That Section 8 of the Evanston City Code of 1979, as
amended, is hereby further amended by the enactment of a new Subsection
9-5-8-9, to read as follows:
9-5-8-9: VIDEO GAMING PROHIBITED:
Video gaming, as defined in the Video Gaming Act (230 ILCS 40/1 et seq., as
amended), is hereby expressly prohibited within the corporate limits of the City of
Evanston. The maintenance of a "video gaming terminal", as defined in said
statute, is prohibited and any such gaming terminal shall be immediately
removed by the owner or operator from the public place or fraternal or veteran's
establishment in which it is located.
SECTION 3: That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict •
herewith are hereby repealed.
SECTION 4: That if any provision of this ordinance or application
thereof to any person or circumstance is held unconstitutional or otherwise
invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this
Ordinance that can be given effect without the invalid application or provision,
and each invalid application of this ordinance is severable.
SECTION 5: That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect
from and after its passage, approval, and publication in the manner
provided by law.
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Introduced: 4-34"AY1,13Lr /a, , 2009
• Adopted: .3e--pQ1-Ydxr 14 , 2009
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Approved:
2009
Eliza eth B. Tisdahl, Mayor
Approved as toform:
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adney'G ene,/City Clerk Elke B. Tober-Purze, Interim
I First Assistant Corporation Counsel
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