Relating to gambling

ARTICLE 1 - CASINO

Authorizing and providing for the commissioner of public safety to issue a license for the ownership and operation of a casino in the city of Eagan; establishing a casino commission to review regulatory matters, specifying membership; requiring and providing for commissioner issuance of certain occupational licenses for casino employees, providing for application, investigation and license issuance and renewal or revocation and suspension; prescribing game procedures; requiring the casino licensee to file with the commissioner a comprehensive plan for security and surveillance at the casino; authorizing the commissioner to by order exclude certain persons from the licensed casino, providing for hearing and appeal and a reasonable time to cure the violation or condition, imposing a penalty for violation of the order; authorizing and providing for exclusion of persons from the premises by the casino under certain conditions; providing for the detention and arrest of criminal suspects, casino licensee or peace officer liability immunity provision; prohibiting minors from entering the premises; specifying certain audit requirements; imposing a tax on gaming conducted at the casino, providing for payment and for the crediting of tax revenues; requiring the casino licensee to post the compulsive gambling hotline number in prominent locations; prohibiting local regulation; prohibiting the recovery of lost money through civil action and excluding gaming at the casino from gambling crimes; requiring the commission to establish by rule a schedule of fees for casino occupational licenses for deposit into the general fund

ARTICLE 2 - THREE STADIUM FUNDING FOR TWINS, GOPHERS AND VIKINGS

Providing a process for the financing of sports stadiums for the Minnesota Vikings, Minnesota Twins and the university of Minnesota Gophers and for the financing of future light rail and commuter rail; exempting real or personal property acquired, owned, leased, controlled, used, or occupied as a stadium or a casino, convention center, monorail system and parking facilities from property taxes and subjecting the property to special assessments levied by a political subdivision; defining certain terms; specifying uses of casino revenues
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