99F.5A  Limitations on issuance of licenses to conduct gambling games.
  1.  Commencing June 1, 2022, the total number of licenses issued by the commission to conduct gambling games on an excursion gambling boat, at a gambling structure, or at a pari-mutuel racetrack shall not exceed nineteen subject to the requirements of this section.
  2.  Licenses to conduct gambling games shall be restricted to those counties where an excursion gambling boat, gambling structure, or racetrack enclosure was operating and licensed to conduct gambling games on June 1, 2022.
  3.  The commission shall be authorized to take any of the following actions concerning the issuance of licenses to conduct gambling games:
  a.  A gambling games licensee may move to a new location within the same county and retain the gambling games license.
  b.  A licensed facility may be sold and a new gambling games license issued for operation in the same county.
  c.  If a license to conduct gambling games is surrendered, not renewed, or revoked, a new gambling games license may be issued for operation in the same county.
  4.  This section is repealed June 30, 2024.
2022 Acts, ch 1143, §17 – 19
Section applies retroactively to June 1, 2022; 2022 Acts, ch 1143, §19
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