HF 1741

1st Engrossment - 83rd Legislature (2003 - 2004) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act
  1.2             relating to gambling; prohibiting location of a 
  1.3             state-operated or state-licensed gambling facility in 
  1.4             a city unless the voters of the city have approved the 
  1.5             facility in a referendum.  
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  [CASINO LOCATION; REFERENDUM.] 
  1.8      Subdivision 1.  [DEFINITION.] For purposes of this section, 
  1.9   "gambling facility" means a facility operated or licensed by the 
  1.10  state at which games commonly considered to be casino games are 
  1.11  conducted.  Gambling facility does not include (1) a racetrack 
  1.12  licensed under Minnesota Statutes, chapter 240, or (2) a 
  1.13  facility at which the only gambling conducted is lawful gambling 
  1.14  licensed under Minnesota Statutes, chapter 349. 
  1.15     Subd. 2.  [REFERENDUM.] No gambling facility may be located 
  1.16  within a home rule charter or statutory city unless the voters 
  1.17  of the city have approved that use in the city at a general 
  1.18  election or a special election called for that purpose. 
  1.19     [EFFECTIVE DATE.] This section is effective the day 
  1.20  following final enactment.