Coin Slot Magazine - #065 - 1980 - July [International Arcade Museum]
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To the Editor
Finally!!! You can color Iowa Black!
Here's a copy of the Bill Governor Ray signed to legalize
collecting antique slots in Iowa. It goes into effect July
First.
and pulMabs. However, "gambling device" does not
include an antique slot machine, antique pinball machine,
or any device regularly manufactured and offered for sale
and sotd as a toy, except that any use of such a toy, antique
slot machine or antique pinball machine for gambling
purposes constitutes unlawful gambling.
4.
It's been a long haul but it's done, but not without a lot of
help. So, I'd like to thank all those collectors here that
pitched in.
Special thanks goes to Ms. Diane Brandt, my represen
tative. She stayed on top of things from the Start.
So, here's one more that's done. What about all thoseotfter
states left? Fi re up and let's get the whotemap colored In. It
can be done!!
A person who, in any manner or for any purpose,
except under a proceeding to destroy the device, has in
possession or control a gambling device is guilty of a
serious misdemeanor.
Sec. 2.
Section ninety-nine B point eighteen (99B.18),
unnumbered paragraph two (2), Code 1979, is amended to
read as follows:
Any A gambling device intended for use or used as
herein provided shall be in this section is exempt from the
provisions of section 725.9, subsection three (3).
Keep after it.
Best Regards,
Any A device intended for use or used as provided in this
section is exempt from the provisions of section 725.9,
subsection three (3).
WILLIAM H. HARBOR
Speaker of the House
HOUSE FILE 2481
AN ACT
PERMITTING THE POSSESSION OF ANTIQUE SLOT
MACHINES AND ANTIQUE PJNBALL MACHINES AND
PROVIDING A PENALTY.
BE IN ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OFTHE
STATE OF IOWA:
Section 1. Section seven hundred twenty-fivepornt nine
TERRY E. BRANSTAD
President of the Senate
I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
is known as House File 2481, Sixty-eighth General
Assembly.
(725.9), Code 1979, is amended by striking the section and
inserting in lieu thereof the following:
725.9
POSSESSION
OF
GAMBLING
DEVICES
DAVID L. WRAY
PROHIBITED.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved .
1980
ROBERT D. RAY
Governor
punchboards, faro layouts, keno layouts, numbers tickets,
slot machines, pinball machines, push cards, jar tickets
© JULY,
The International
Arcade Museum
1980
http://www.arcade-museum.com/
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