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HB1643 Engrossed                     LRB093 08636 LRD 08864 b

 1        AN ACT in relation to gaming.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.   The  Riverboat  Gambling  Act is amended by
 5    changing Section 20 as follows:

 6        (230 ILCS 10/20) (from Ch. 120, par. 2420)
 7        Sec. 20.  Prohibited activities;  civil  penalties.   Any
 8    person  who  conducts  a  gambling  operation  without  first
 9    obtaining  a  license  to  do so, or who continues to conduct
10    such games after revocation of his or  her  license,  or  any
11    licensee   who   conducts  or  allows  to  be  conducted  any
12    unauthorized gambling  games  on  a  riverboat  where  it  is
13    authorized  to  conduct  its riverboat gambling operation, in
14    addition to other penalties provided, shall be subject  to  a
15    civil  penalty  equal to the amount of gross receipts derived
16    from wagering on the gambling games, whether unauthorized  or
17    authorized, conducted on that day as well as confiscation and
18    forfeiture of all gambling game equipment used in the conduct
19    of unauthorized gambling games.
20    (Source: P.A. 86-1029.)