HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCE - 829 - 10/3/1972 - GAMBLING AND CHEATINGORDINANCE NO. 8a f
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 24.001, GAMBLING,
OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE, AND SECTION 24.008,
CHEATING, OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE VILLAGE
OF ELK GROVE VILLAGE
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED, by the President and Board of
Trustees of the Village of Elk Grove Village, Counties of Cook and
DuPage, Illinois, as follows:
Section 1: That Section 24.001, Gambling, of the Municipal
Code of the Village of Elk Grove Village, be amended to read as
follows:
24.001. Gambling. A person commits gambling when; he:
(1) Plays a game of chance or skill for money or other
thing of value, unless excepted in subsection (b) of this
section; or
(2) Makes a wager upon the result of any game, contest or
any political nomination, appointment or election; or
(3) Operates, keeps, owns, uses, purchases, exhibits, rents,
sells, bargains for the sale or lease of, manufactures
or distributes any gambling device; or
(4) Contracts to have or give himself or another the option
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 therefrom, 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 Section 8 of
the Illinois SecuritiesLaw of 1953, or by or through a person exempt
from such registration under said Section 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 regis-
tration under Section 3 of the Illinois Securities law of 1:53
is not gambling within the meaning of this paragraph (4); or
(5) Knowingly owns or possesses any book, instrument, or
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appratus bv means of which bets or wagers have been, or are,
recorded or registerea, or knowingly posses:;e; any snonc.v which
he has receivers in the course of a ret or wacyer; or
(6) Sells, pools upon the result of, any game or contest
of skill or chance, political nomination, appointment or
election; or
(7) Sets up'or promotes any lottery, or sells, offers to sell
or transfers any ticket or share for any lottery; or
(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; or
(10) Knowingly transmits information as to wagers, betting odds,
or changes in betting odds by telephone, telegraph, radio, sema-
phore -or similar means; or knowingly installs or maintains equip-
ment for the transmission or receipt of such information; except
that nothing in this subdivision (10) prohibits transmission or
receipt of such information for the use in news reporting of
sporting events or contents;
(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 to, contracts of indemnity
or guaranty and life or health or accident insurance; and
(2) Offers of prizes, award or compensation to the actual con-
testants in any bona fide contest for the determination of skill,
speed, strength or endurance or to the owners of animals or veh-
icles entered in such contest; and
(3) Pari -mutual 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 trans-
portation in interstate or foreign commerce to any place outside
this state when such transportation is not prohibited by any ap-
plicable Federal law; and
(5) The game commonly known as "Bingo" when conducted in accord-
ance with "An Act Making Lawful the Conducting of Bingo by Cer-
tain Non-profit Organizations, Requiring Licensing and Prescribing
Regulations therefor."
(c) Penalty. A person convicted of gambling will be fined up to
$500.00 for the first occurrence, and the penalty for the second
offense will be up to $1,000.00.
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Section 2: That Section 24.008, Cheating, of the Municipal
Code of the Village of Elk Grove Village be amended to read as
follows:
"24.008. Theft by Deception. It shall be unlawful for any
person, firm or corporation to obtain possession of any goods,
property or thing of value by any false proceedings, or by
cheating, or fraud of any kind."
Section 3: That Section 24.033, Penalty, of the Municipal
Code of the Village of Elk Grove Village be amended to read as
follows:
1124.033. Penalty. Any person, firm or corporation violating
any provision of this Chapter in which a separate penalty is
not provided shall be fined not less than $1.00, nor more than
$100.00, for each offense; and a separate offense shall be
deemed committed on each day during or on which a violation
occurs or continues."
Section 4: Any person, firm or corporation violating any of
the provisions of this ordinance shall pay a fine of not less than
$5.00, nor more than $500.00 for each offense; and a separate offense
shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a violation
occurs or continues.
Section 5: That this ordinance shall be in full force and
effect from and after its passage and approval and publication,
according to law.
PASSED this '"> day of"-���` 1972.
APPROVED this day of 1972.
Vote: Ayes Nay Abse
Vill e P sident
ATTEST:
Village Clerk
Published this 11th day of
Elk Grove Herald
October
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1972, in the