In Wolf’s emergency declaration order issued March 19, the state told establishments with skill gaming machines, “Operations of these machines during the current health emergency encourages people to congregate unnecessarily and is prohibited under the Governor’s order of March 19, 2020.”<\/p>\n
\nAny business operating, servicing, or otherwise maintaining a ‘Game of Skill’ is subject to enforcement which may include an order to suspend otherwise authorized in-person operations,” the directive warned.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Skill gaming machines, the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) has said in the past, do not fall under its legal regulatory authority. A Commonwealth judge agreed in November, ruling that the Gaming Act does not regulate unlicensed slot machines.<\/p>\n
The Pennsylvania State Police are not currently seizing such devices. Instead, law enforcement has called on the General Assembly to pass legislation declaring the machines illegal gambling devices.<\/p>\n
In the interim, convenience store owners are keeping the terminals on. One establishment told Casino.org <\/i>that after initially disabling the machines, he turned them back on after several customers complained, and reports surfaced that they were on at other competitor stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pennsylvania casinos are calling on state law enforcement to immediately order convenience stores to shutter their so-called “skill gaming” machines that have generated much controversy throughout the Commonwealth. Skill gaming machines closely resemble slot machines. The primary difference is that, unlike a regulated slot machine that automatically tells the gambler whether the spin won or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":136317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,21],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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