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A2390
ASSEMBLY, No. 2390
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
222nd LEGISLATURE
�
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman WILLIAM F. MOEN, JR.
District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)
SYNOPSIS
���� Prohibits amusement games licensees from offering or
advertising gambling activities related to amusement games.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.
��
An Act
prohibiting amusement games licensees from offering or
advertising gambling activities related to amusement games and amending
P.L.1959, c.109.
����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:
���� 1.��� Section 11 of P.L.1959,
c.109 (C.5:8-110) is amended to read as follows:
���� 11.�
a.
� No person or
corporation
���� (1)� lawfully conducting, or
participating in the conduct of,
���� (2)� possessing, selling or in
any manner disposing of, any shares, tickets or rights to participate in, or
���� (3)� permitting the conduct
upon any premises owned by him or it, of any amusement game conducted or to be
conducted in compliance with any license lawfully issued and in force pursuant
to this act, and in compliance with the rules and regulations of the Control
Commissioner, shall be liable to prosecution or conviction for violation of any
provision of
[
chapters
112 and 121 of Title 2A, or of section 2A:170-18
]
chapter 37 of Title 2C
of
the New Jersey Statutes
[
,
but this
]
.
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b.��� The
immunity
provided
by subsection a. of this section
shall not extend to any person or
corporation knowingly conducting or participating in the conduct of any
amusement game under any license obtained by any false pretense or statement
made in any application for such license or otherwise, or possessing, selling
or disposing of shares, tickets or rights to participate in, or permitting the
conduct upon any premises owned by
[
him
]
them
or it of, any amusement game conducted under any license known to
[
him
]
them
or it to have been obtained by any such false or fraudulent pretense or
statement
, or conducting or permitting the conduct of gambling activities
upon any premises owned by them, or accepting or allowing wagers to be placed
on any games conducted under any license issued to them pursuant to this act,
P.L.1959, c.109 (C.5:8-100 et seq.), or promoting any such gambling activities
.
(cf: P.L.1959, c.109, s.11)
���� 2.��� Section 12 of P.L.1959,
c.109 (C.5:8-111) is amended to read as follows:
���� 12.� Any person, association
or corporation who or which shall make any false statement in any application
for such license or shall fail to keep such books and records as shall fully
and truly record all transactions connected with the� holding, operating or
conducting of amusement games under any such license
,
or� shall falsify
or make any false entry in any books or records so far as they� relate to any
transaction connected with the holding, operating and conducting� of any
amusement game under any such license
,
or shall violate any of the�
provisions of this act or of any term of such license
, or shall conduct or
permit the conduct of gambling activities upon any premises owned by them, or
shall accept or allow wagers to be placed on any games conducted under any
license issued to them pursuant to this act
shall be a disorderly� person
and if convicted as such shall, in addition to suffering any other� penalties
which may be imposed, forfeit any license issued to it under this� act.
(cf: P.L.1959, c.109, s.12)
���� 3.��� Section 14 of P.L.1959,
c.109 (C.5:8-113) is amended to read as follows:
���� 14.�
a.
� Nothing
contained in this act shall be deemed to authorize the playing for money, or
other valuable thing at roulette wheels, at cards, dice or other game, with 1
or more dice, or with any other instrument, engine or device in the nature of
dice, having 1 or more figures or numbers, or at billiards, pool,� tennis,
bowls, or shuffleboard, or A.B.C. or E.O. tables, or at faro bank, or� other
bank of a like nature by whatever name known, or with any slot machine or�
device in the nature of a slot machine. �Nothing contained in this act shall
be� deemed to authorize bookmaking, off-track betting, pool selling, or the
keeping� of a gambling resort, or the racing for money or other valuable thing,
by� running, pacing or trotting of horses, mares or geldings, or the making or�
acceptance of any wager for money or other valuable thing conditioned in any�
way upon any occurrence at or upon the outcome of any athletic or sporting
game� or contest in which the person or player does not actively participate.�
For� the purpose of this section� "slot machines"� or "devices
in the nature of� slot machines" are defined to be machines which operate
mechanically, with the� result principally controlled by the mechanical
operation of the machines.�
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b.��� The holder of an
amusement games license issued pursuant to this act shall not conduct or permit
the conduct of gambling activities, as defined in P.L.1977, c.110 (C.5:12-1 et.
seq.), upon any premises owned by them, or accept or allow wagers to be placed
on any games conducted under any license issued to them pursuant to this act,
or advertise or promote any such activities.
(cf: P.L.1959, c.109, s.14)
���� 4.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.
STATEMENT
���� This bill prohibits the holder
of an amusement games license from accepting wagers on their premises, or on
any amusement game authorized to be played under their amusement games license.
���� The bill also prohibits the
holder of an amusement games license from allowing any other party to
facilitate such gambling activities on the license holder�s property or on
games conducted by the license holder, and from advertising any such gambling
activities.
���� An amusement games license
holder who engages in any conduct prohibited under the terms of the bill would
be committing a disorderly persons offense, and could be subject to forfeiture
of their amusement games license, as well as the applicable penalties for
illegal gambling.