去年每个县玩老虎机投注的,都有人中了头奖,但到目前为止佛罗里达州却拒绝支付。
六个县的选民--北,加兹登,汉密尔顿,李,棕榈海滩,和华盛顿--去年批准开展老虎机投注这项
业务,但在这些pari-mutuels操作里没有一个是县申请了老虎机许可证的。
在检察官邦迪看来,阻塞的方式是不具约束力的法律意见,他主张通过立法,文章出自博之道,
2004年在布劳沃德和迈阿密戴德县允许公民投票老虎机,要求明确立法允许公民在休息的状态为扩大槽
投票。商务和职业监管部部长肯·劳森表示,他将遵循布劳沃德和迈阿密戴德县的意见而不是外在新的
老虎机许可证。
布劳沃德和迈阿密选民批准老虎机公投,2010年并存在插槽2南佛罗里达州县的一部分,塞米诺尔紧
凑国家订立与塞米诺尔部落。一些立法者称他们关注的是,在布劳沃德和迈阿密任何扩大老虎机的行为
可能都会违反合同,导致塞米诺尔部落取消其每年紧凑支付给国家233000000美元的一部分,紧凑的截止
日期是2015年。
那些离开了监狱的彩池运营商--和在佛罗里达州老虎机的法律地位--指望在老虎机方面提高他们的
业务。
译文:
Slot machine referendums hit the jackpot in every county they played in last year but
so far the state of Florida is refusing to pay out.
Voters in six counties -- Brevard, Gadsden, Hamilton, Lee, Palm Beach, and Washington
-- approved referendums allowing slot machine operations last year, but none of the pari-
mutuels operating in those counties has applied for a slot machine license.
Blocking the way is a nonbinding legal opinion from Attorney General Pam
Bondi,www.bozhidao.com, asserting that legislation passed in 2004 permitting slot machine
referendums in Broward and Miami-Dade counties calls for explicit legislative permission
for referendums for the expansion of slots throughout the rest of the state. Department of
Business and Professional Regulation Secretary Ken Lawson stated he would abide by the
opinion and not issue new slot machines licenses outside of Broward and Miami-Dade
counties.
Broward and Miami-Dade voters approved the slot machine referendums, and the presence
of slots in those two South Florida counties is part of the Seminole Compact the state
entered into with the Seminole Tribe in 2010. Some legislators have expressed concern that
any expansion of slot machines outside Broward and Miami-Dade could violate the contract
and lead the Seminole Tribe to cancel its annual $233 million payments to the state as part
of the Compact The Compact is set to expire in 2015.
That leaves in limbo pari-mutuel operators -- and the legal status of slot machines in
Florida -- who were counting on slots to boost their businesses.
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