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Ohio illegal machines ordered removed24 August 2007COSHOCTON, Ohio -- As reported by the Central Ohio News: "The Ohio Attorney General and Governor seem to be taking the old cliché - If it walks like a duck and looks like a duck, it's a duck - to heart. "In a joint statement released Wednesday morning, Attorney General Marc Dann and Governor Ted Strickland released an executive order signed by Strickland that says 'if it looks like a slot machine, sounds like a slot machine and pays out cash, it's a slot machine.' "...And with that, a Cease and Desist letter to 700 manufacturers, distributors, owners, lessors and lessees of the skill-based amusement machines that have cropped up throughout Ohio informing them they have three days from receipt of the letter to remove the machines from public access. "The order authorizes Dann to issue the letters to those with the electronic gambling machines that has grown from an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 in the past six months. The order also seeks to clarify the definition for gaming devices as amusement versus gambling, rather than as requiring skill versus chance - a distinction that has tangled up law enforcers trying to cite violators. "Dann issued the order which makes it a crime under Ohio's Consumer Sales Practices Act to market gambling devices as games of amusement..." |