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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 -- 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. -2- 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 -3- 1972, in the