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119-0-89
AN ORDINANCE
Amending Title 9, Chapter 5
To Exempt Certain Charitable Games from
the Gambling Prohibitions of the City Code
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
EVANSTON, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS:
Section 1: That Section 9-5-8-1(A) of the City Code
of the City of Evanston, 1979, as
amended, be and it hereby is further amended to read as follows:
9-5-8-1: GAMBLING HOUSE, ESTABLISHMENTS:
(A) Maintaining: No person shall set up, keep or
maintain, or permit to be set up, kept or
maintained, in any house or place within the
corporate limits of the City, occupied or
controlled by him, any E.O., A.B.C., rolly-polly,
keno or faro bank, roulette or other instrument,
device or thing for the purpose of gambling, or
with which money or property or anything
representing money or property or anything of value
shall in any manner be played for, under a penalty
of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor
more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each
and every offense, except as provided in the
Illinois Lottery Law, the Bingo License and Tax
Act, (1957 Code, sec. 20-1; and Ord. 1-0-64, 1979
Code), and the Illinois Charitable Games Act.1
repealed.
1. S.H.A. Ch. 120, secs. 1151 et seq; and Ch. 120,
secs. 1101 et seq, and Ch. 120, 1121 et seq.,
respectively.
SECTION 2: All ordinances or parts of ordinances
in conflict herewith are hereby
SECTION 3: This ordinance shall be in full force
and effect from and after its passage,
approval and publication in the manner provided by law.
Introduced: 1989
Adopted: /SL/ / 1989
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City erk
Co .oration Counsel
Approv
Mayor
,1989