§415. Pari-mutuel wagering facility or offtrack wagering facility; no minimum wager;
location
A.A person owning a Louisiana State Racing Commission licensed pari-mutuel
wagering facility or an offtrack wagering facility may be granted a license for the placement
of video draw poker devices in his facility if all other requirements of this Chapter are met.
There shall be no limit on the number of video draw poker devices which may be placed at
the facility. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, video draw poker devices
in these facilities may schedule games with no minimum wager.
B.Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 4:214(A)(4), no more than five Louisiana
State Racing Commission licensed pari-mutuel facilities or offtrack wagering facilities that
operate video draw p
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§415. Pari-mutuel wagering facility or offtrack wagering facility; no minimum wager;
location
A. A person owning a Louisiana State Racing Commission licensed pari-mutuel
wagering facility or an offtrack wagering facility may be granted a license for the placement
of video draw poker devices in his facility if all other requirements of this Chapter are met.
There shall be no limit on the number of video draw poker devices which may be placed at
the facility. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, video draw poker devices
in these facilities may schedule games with no minimum wager.
B. Notwithstanding the provisions of R.S. 4:214(A)(4), no more than five Louisiana
State Racing Commission licensed pari-mutuel facilities or offtrack wagering facilities that
operate video draw poker devices shall be located within Jefferson Parish.
C. No license shall be granted to any offtrack wagering facility located, at the time
application is made for a license to operate video draw poker devices, within one mile from
any property on the National Register of Historic Places, any public playground, any
residential property, or a building used primarily as a church, synagogue, public library, or
school. The measurement of the distance shall be a straight line from the nearest point of the
offtrack wagering facility to the nearest point of the property on the National Register of
Historic Places, the public playground, residential property, or building used primarily as a
church, synagogue, public library, or school.
D. After an application is filed with the division, the subsequent construction,
erection, development, or movement of a property identified in Subsection C of this Section
which causes the location of an offtrack wagering facility to be within the prohibited distance
shall not be cause for denial of an initial or renewal application or revocation of a license.
E. If a parish or municipality does not have a zoning ordinance which designates
certain property within their jurisdiction as residential property, the governing authority of
the parish or municipality shall have the authority to designate certain areas of their
jurisdiction as residential districts for the purposes of this Section.
F. The prohibition provided for in Subsection C of this Section shall not apply to any
offtrack wagering facility that is both licensed and operating on January 1, 2025. If
application for licensing is made after January 1, 2025, the prohibition in Subsection C of
this Section shall apply.
G. For the purposes of this Section, "residential property" means any property which
is wholly or partly used for or intended to be used for living or sleeping by human occupants
and which includes one or more rooms, including a bathroom and complete kitchen facilities.
Residential property shall include a mobile home or manufactured housing, provided that it
shall have been in its present location for at least sixty days. Residential property shall not
include any hotel or motel.