PRINTER'S NO. 1824
No. 1477 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY JOSEPHS, BAKER, BISHOP, BLACKWELL, CLYMER, COHEN,
CREIGHTON, DENLINGER, HENNESSEY, HESS, W. KELLER, KIRKLAND,
MARSHALL, McGEEHAN, McILHATTAN, McILVAINE SMITH, MURT, MYERS,
M. O'BRIEN, PARKER, PAYTON, ROEBUCK, ROHRER, SABATINA,
SIPTROTH, J. TAYLOR, THOMAS, VITALI, WATERS, WILLIAMS AND
YOUNGBLOOD, JUNE 5, 2007
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON GAMING OVERSIGHT, JUNE 5, 2007
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 4 (Amusements) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for location of Category 2 slot
3 machine license.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 1304(b)(1) of Title 4 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 1304. Category 2 slot machine license.
9 * * *
10 (b) Location.--
11 (1) Two Category 2 licensed facilities and no more shall
12 be located by the board within a city of the first class
13 provided that no facility shall be located within 1,500 feet
14 of the real property in which is located a public, private or
15 parochial school, a place of worship, a recreation center or
16 playground or a personal residence, and one Category 2
1 licensed facility and no more shall be located by the board
2 within a city of the second class. No Category 2 licensed
3 facility located by the board within a city of the first
4 class shall be within ten linear miles of a Category 1
5 licensed facility regardless of the municipality where the
6 Category 1 licensed facility is located. Except for any
7 Category 2 licensed facility located by the board within a
8 city of the first class or a city of the second class, no
9 Category 2 licensed facility shall be located within 30
10 linear miles of any Category 1 licensed facility that has
11 conducted over 200 racing days per year for the two calendar
12 years immediately preceding the effective date of this part
13 and not within 20 linear miles of any other Category 1
14 licensed facility. Except for any Category 2 licensed
15 facility located by the board within a city of the first
16 class, no Category 2 licensed facility shall be located
17 within 20 linear miles of another Category 2 licensed
18 facility.
19 * * *
20 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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