Relates to regulations implementing video lottery gaming in this state; sets minimum and maximum hours of operation based upon the number of terminals offered by vendor tracks; requires regulations for games capable of generating random results and approved by the director of the division of the lottery.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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218
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 7, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Racing and Wagering
AN ACT to amend the tax law, in relation to rules and regulations neces-
sary for the implementation of video lottery gaming
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions b and c of section 1617-a of the tax law, as
2 amended by section 2 of part Z3 of chapter 62 of the laws of 2003, are
3 amended to read as follows:
4 b. Video lottery gaming shall [only] be permitted for [no more than
5 sixteen consecutive hours per day and on no day shall such operation be
6 conducted past 2:00 a.m] a vendor track having fewer than one thousand
7 five hundred seventy-five video gaming machines for a maximum of one
8 hundred twenty-eight hours per week and a minimum of one hundred twelve
9 hours per week, and for a vendor track having one thousand five hundred
10 seventy-five or more video gaming machines for a maximum of one hundred
11 forty hours per week and a minimum of one hundred twelve hours per week,
12 with the actual daily hours of operation set by each vendor track and
13 approved by the director.
14 c. The division shall promulgate such rules and regulations as may be
15 necessary for the implementation of video lottery gaming in accordance
16 with the provisions of this section [and paragraph five of subdivision a
17 of section sixteen hundred twelve of this article]. Such rules and
18 regulations will provide for lottery versions of any game capable of
19 generating random results including but not limited to roulette, bacca-
20 rat and "21" as approved by the division.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
22 ments made to section 1617-a of the tax law by section one of this act
23 shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall expire and be
24 deemed repealed therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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