PRINTER'S NO.  966

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

SENATE BILL

 

No.

831

Session of

2009

  

  

INTRODUCED BY WOZNIAK AND FONTANA, MAY 1, 2009

  

  

REFERRED TO COMMUNITY, ECONOMIC AND RECREATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, MAY 1, 2009  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending Title 4 (Amusements) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

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Statutes, in licensees, further providing for Category 2 slot

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machine license.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Section 1304(b)(1) of Title 4 of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

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§ 1304.  Category 2 slot machine license.

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(b)  Location.--

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(1)  [Two] One Category 2 licensed [facilities] facility 

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and no more shall be located by the board within a city of

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the first class, [and] one Category 2 licensed facility and

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no more shall be located by the board within a city of the

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second class[.] and one Category 2 licensed facility and no

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more shall be located in either a county of the fourth class

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having a population during the 2000 Federal Decennial Census

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of not less than 150,000 nor more than 160,000 or a county of

 


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the sixth class having a population during the 2000 Federal

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Decennial Census of not less than 80,000 nor more than

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83,000. No Category 2 licensed facility located by the board

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within a city of the first class shall be within ten linear

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miles of a Category 1 licensed facility regardless of the

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municipality where the Category 1 licensed facility is

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located. Except for any Category 2 licensed facility located

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by the board within a city of the first class or a city of

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the second class, no Category 2 licensed facility shall be

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located within 30 linear miles of any Category 1 licensed

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facility that has conducted over 200 racing days per year for

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the two calendar years immediately preceding the effective

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date of this part and not within 20 linear miles of any other

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Category 1 licensed facility. Except for any Category 2

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licensed facility located by the board within a city of the

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first class, no Category 2 licensed facility shall be located

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within 20 linear miles of another Category 2 licensed

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facility.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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