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<section article="gsg" article_name="State Government" number="9-1B-02" title_number="9" title_name="Miscellaneous Executive Agencies" subtitle_number="1B" subtitle_name="Amusement Gaming Licenses">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section applies only in Worcester County.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Commission may issue an amusement gaming license to a family entertainment center that satisfies the requirements of this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A family entertainment center may apply to the Commission for a license under this section if the family entertainment center:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is located in a building that is owned, leased, or occupied by the family entertainment center for the primary purpose of providing amusement devices to the public;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>receives a majority of the gross receipts from amusement, merchandise, redemption, or skills–based devices;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>markets its business to families with children;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>offers amusement devices, arcade games, crane games, video games, interactive and sporting games, amusement rides, miniature golf, and bowling; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>is in continuous operation in the same geographic location since 1975.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A family entertainment center that holds an amusement gaming license issued under this section may operate:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>skills–based devices that award noncash prizes of minimal value; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>up to 10 skills–based devices that award noncash prizes with a minimal wholesale value that does not exceed $599.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Commission shall determine the value of the noncash prizes that may be awarded by a skills–based device under paragraph (1)(i) of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>A family entertainment center may not exchange merchandise for money.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The Commission may determine that a device at a family entertainment center is an illegal gaming device and order the device to be removed from the family entertainment center.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>A family entertainment center that holds an amusement gaming license issued under this section may not transfer the license to another geographic location.</text>
  </level>
</section>
