Whoever keeps a common gaming house
or in any building, booth, yard, or garden by him or his agent used
and occupied, procures, or permits any persons to frequent or to come
together to play for money or other valuable thing at any game or
keeps or suffers to be kept any tables or other apparatus for the
purpose of playing at any game or sport for money or other valuable
thing or knowingly rents any such place for such purposes shall be
fined not less than $25 and not exceeding $100 for each offense.
A.
Whoever shall be an inmate of or connected
with any gambling room or shall play for money or other valuable thing
at any game with cards, dice, checks, or at billiards, or with any
other article, instrument, or thing whatsoever which may be used for
the purpose of playing or betting upon or winning or losing money
or any other valuable thing or article of value or shall bet on any
game that others may be playing shall be fined not less than $5 nor
more than $50 for each offense.
B.
Participants in any of the following activities
shall not be convicted of gambling:
(1)
Agreements to compensate for loss caused
by the happening of chance including without limitation contracts
of indemnity or guaranty and life or health or accident insurance;
and
(2)
Offers of prizes, award or compensation
to the actual contestants in any bona fide contest for the determination
of skill, speed, strength or endurance or to the owners of animals
or vehicles entered in such contest; and
(3)
Pari-mutuel betting as authorized by the
law of this State; and
(4)
Manufacture of gambling devices, including
the acquisition of essential parts therefor and the assembly thereof,
for transportation in interstate or foreign commerce to any place
outside this State when such transportation is not prohibited by any
applicable Federal law; and
(7)
Video gaming when licensed by the State
and conducted in accordance with the Video Gaming Act, 230 ILCS 40/1
et seq.
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No person shall bring into the City
or have in his, her, or their possession in said City for the purpose
of gaming any table, thing, or device of any kind or nature whereon
or with which money or any other thing of value in any manner can
be played for, under penalty of not less than $25 for each offense.
No person shall expose in any street,
alley, or other public place within the City any table or device of
any kind whatever upon or by which any game of chance or hazard can
be played or shall play at or upon any such table or device, under
the penalty of $25 for each offense.
It shall be unlawful for any person
to possess within the corporate limits of the City a Federal wagering
stamp issued under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code enacted
by the Congress of the United States. Any person found guilty of violating
the provisions of this section shall be punished as provided in Section
14 of this chapter.
Any person who is a frequenter, visitor,
inmate, doorkeeper, solicitor, runner, agent, or abettor of or for
any house, store, grocery, hall, room, or any other place where is
kept any device, instrument, or other thing used for gambling, whereon
or with which money or any other thing of value shall be played for
shall be fined in a sum not less than $25 nor more than $200.
A.
Except as provided in Subsection B of this section, no person shall keep an office, room, or place for the sale or other disposition of lottery tickets, nor shall any person in the City sell or dispose of, in any manner whatsoever, any tickets, figures, numbers, or characters for any "prize gift," "present," "gift distribution," "chance," or for anything of like name or nature, where money or other property is directly or indirectly pledged, paid, or to be pledged or paid for a share or a chance or for any participation in the same or where numbers, figures, characters, gifts, prizes, presents, or donations are to be drawn, disposed of, or received by any person in any manner whatsoever.
No person shall keep, own, operate,
use, or cause to be kept, operated, or used, in any room, inn, tavern,
shed, booth, building, enclosure, or upon any premises, or any part
thereof, any clock, "joker," tape or slot machine or other device
of any kind or nature whatsoever upon, in or by, or through which
money is staked or hazarded or into which money is paid or played
upon chance or upon the result of the action of such clock, "joker,"
tape, or slot machine or other device, money, or other valuable thing
is staked, bet, hazarded, won, or lost. Each and every day on which
any person shall operate, keep, own, or have in his charge, possession
or control any such clock, "joker," tape, or slot machine, or other
device in violation of the provisions of this section shall be deemed
a separate and distinct offense.
A.
No person shall keep, occupy, or use or
permit to be kept, occupied, or used a place, building, room, establishment,
table, or apparatus for policy playing or for the purchase, sale,
exchange, or redemption of what are commonly called policy tickets.
B.
No person shall deliver or receive money
or other valuable consideration in playing policy or in aiding in
the playing thereof or for policy tickets, or for any writing, paper,
or document in the nature of a bet, wager, or insurance upon the drawing
or drawn numbers of any policy game, whether such drawing be real
or imaginary.
C.
No person, other than a public officer,
shall have in his possession, custody or control any paper, print,
writing, numbers, device, policy slip, policy sheet, or article of
any kind such as is commonly used in carrying on, promoting or playing
the game commonly called policy.
D.
No person, except a public officer, shall
have in his possession, custody or control any writing, paper, or
document representing or being a record of any chance, share, or interest
in numbers sold, drawn, or to be drawn, in what is commonly called
policy or in the nature of a bet, wager, or insurance upon the drawing
or drawn numbers of any public or private policy game, whether such
drawing be real or imaginary. No person shall sell, offer for sale,
vend, barter, exchange, give away, deal in, or in any way dispose
of or redeem any ticket, order, slip, or device of any kind for or
representing any number of shares or any interest in any policy or
scheme of chance of any kind or description by whatsoever name, style,
or title the same may be denominated or known, and whether located
or to be drawn, paid, or carried on within or without the limits of
the City, or whether such purported drawing be real or imaginary.
E.
No person shall either publicly or privately,
as owner or agent, establish, open, set on foot, carry on, promote,
make, draw, or act as "backer" or "vendor" for or on account of any
policy or scheme of chance of any kind or description, by whatsoever
name, style, or title the same may be denominated or known, whether
located or to be drawn, paid, or carried on within or without the
limits of the City, and whether such drawings be real or imaginary;
and no person shall be in any way concerned in any such policy or
scheme of chance as aforesaid.
F.
No person who is the owner, lessor, lessee,
agent, superintendent, janitor, or caretaker of any place, building,
or room shall permit policy playing or the barter, sale, exchange,
or redemption of what are commonly called policy tickets or slips
or the sale of any chances in alleged drawings in policies to be carried
on in such place, building, or room, whether such drawings be real
or imaginary.
G.
No person shall patronize, frequent or
be found in any place, building, room, or establishment kept, occupied,
or used for policy playing for policy or lottery drawings, or for
the sale of what are commonly called policy tickets or slips or in
which are kept any papers, prints, writings, numbers, devices, policy
slips, policy tickets, policy sheets, or articles of any kind, such
as is commonly used in carrying on, promoting, or playing the scheme
or game commonly called policy.
H.
No person shall write, print, publish,
circulate, or distribute in any way an account of any policy or scheme
of chance of any kind or description by whatsoever name, style, or
title the same may be denominated or known; and no person shall write,
print, publish, circulate, or distribute any book, pamphlet, circular,
or sheet of paper whatsoever containing or purporting to contain information
concerning any policy or scheme of chance, or where the same is to
be or has been drawn or the prices therein on any of them or the price
of a ticket or where any such ticket may be or has been obtained or
in any way give publicly to any such policy or scheme of chance, whether
the drawings therein referred to be real or imaginary.
I.
No person shall aid, assist, or abet in
any manner or be a party to any of the offenses, acts, or matters
specified in this section.
All betting, wagering, speculating, pool selling, or bookmaking upon any horse race, or the result thereof, and all gambling and every game of any chance of any nature whatsoever, within or upon any and all race tracks and race courses, or in any building within any race track or race course within the City is hereby prohibited. Any person found violating any of the provisions of this section shall be punished as provided in § 20-102 of this Code.
Any person or corporation who keeps
any room, shed, tenement, tent, booth, or building, or any part thereof,
or who occupies any place upon any public or private grounds within
the City with any book, instrument, or device for the purpose of recording
or registering bets or wagers or of selling pools or any person who
records or registers bets or wagers or sells pools upon the results
of any trial or contest of skill, speed, or power of endurance of
man or beast or upon the result of any political nomination, appointment
or election or being the owner, lessee or occupant of any room, shed,
tenement, tent, booth, or building, or part thereof, knowingly permits
the same to be used or occupied for any of these purposes or therein
keeps, exhibits, or employs any device or apparatus for the purpose
of recording or registering such bets or wagers or the selling of
such pools or becomes the custodian or depository for hire or privilege
of any money, property, or thing of value staked, wagered, or pledged
upon any such result shall be fined in a sum of not less than $50
nor exceeding $200.
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Every house, room, yard, boat, vessel,
or other structure, or premises kept or used for the purpose of permitting
persons to gamble for any valuable thing is hereby declared to be
a common nuisance, except for licensed establishments operated in
accordance with the Video Gaming Act, 230 ILCS 40/1, et seq. No person
shall own, keep, maintain, manage, or conduct or shall be interested
in owning, keeping, maintaining, managing, or conducting any such
place.
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It is hereby made the duty of every
member of the police force to seize any table, instrument, device,
or thing used for the purpose of gaming, except for devices and equipment
licensed and operated in accordance with the Video Gaming Act, 230
ILCS 40/1, et seq. Any person or persons obstructing or resisting
any member of the police force in any act authorized by this section
shall be subject to a fine of not less than $50 for each offense.
Any person violating any of the provisions
of this chapter shall, unless some other penalty is provided, be punished
by a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $200.
