Post by skallagrim on Oct 23, 2007 16:42:56 GMT -4
Hi neighbors
I felt it was important to bring to your attention a dangerous provision in the law Gov. Patrick is proposing to bring licensed casinos to Mass.
www.mass.gov/legis/HD4626.pdf
Buried in this is the following provision:
(i) Placing, sending, transmitting, relaying wagers to another person prohibited under certain circumstances; penalties.
Any person who knowingly transmits or receives a wager of any type by any telecommunication device, including telephone, cellular phone, Internet, local area network, including wireless local networks, or any other similar device or equipment or other medium of communication, or knowingly installs or maintains said device or equipment for the transmission or receipt of wagering information shall be punished by imprisonment in a house of correction for not more than 2 years, or a fine of not more than $25,000, or both.
This section shall apply to any person who, from within this commonwealth, transmits a wager to, or receives a wager from, another person or gaming establishment within or outside of this commonwealth and any person who, from outside this commonwealth, transmits a wager to, or receives a wager from, another person or gaming establishment within this commonwealth.
This section shall not apply to the use of a local area network as a means to place authorized wagers in a licensed gaming establishment, or use of said devices or equipment by the authority in it duties in regulating, enforcing, or auditing a licensed gaming operator.
Since there was no publicity about it, one possible interpretation is that this is only meant to prevent the casinos from taking internet or phone wagers. But read broadly, this makes internet wagering illegal in the Commonwealth. I would contact your reps to make sure this provision is changed to make sure it only applies to wagers in the casino, not wagers from your home computer over the internet.
The proposal also changes Mass gambling law in such a way that any poker game where a rake is taken would be clearly illegal (no more argument that because poker is mostly skill it aint gambling if this law passes).
I think you guys need to get to work here!
You can follow more on this at 2+2 :
forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=law&Number=12614352&page=0&fpart=1
Skallagrim
I felt it was important to bring to your attention a dangerous provision in the law Gov. Patrick is proposing to bring licensed casinos to Mass.
www.mass.gov/legis/HD4626.pdf
Buried in this is the following provision:
(i) Placing, sending, transmitting, relaying wagers to another person prohibited under certain circumstances; penalties.
Any person who knowingly transmits or receives a wager of any type by any telecommunication device, including telephone, cellular phone, Internet, local area network, including wireless local networks, or any other similar device or equipment or other medium of communication, or knowingly installs or maintains said device or equipment for the transmission or receipt of wagering information shall be punished by imprisonment in a house of correction for not more than 2 years, or a fine of not more than $25,000, or both.
This section shall apply to any person who, from within this commonwealth, transmits a wager to, or receives a wager from, another person or gaming establishment within or outside of this commonwealth and any person who, from outside this commonwealth, transmits a wager to, or receives a wager from, another person or gaming establishment within this commonwealth.
This section shall not apply to the use of a local area network as a means to place authorized wagers in a licensed gaming establishment, or use of said devices or equipment by the authority in it duties in regulating, enforcing, or auditing a licensed gaming operator.
Since there was no publicity about it, one possible interpretation is that this is only meant to prevent the casinos from taking internet or phone wagers. But read broadly, this makes internet wagering illegal in the Commonwealth. I would contact your reps to make sure this provision is changed to make sure it only applies to wagers in the casino, not wagers from your home computer over the internet.
The proposal also changes Mass gambling law in such a way that any poker game where a rake is taken would be clearly illegal (no more argument that because poker is mostly skill it aint gambling if this law passes).
I think you guys need to get to work here!
You can follow more on this at 2+2 :
forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=law&Number=12614352&page=0&fpart=1
Skallagrim