{"id":1662,"date":"2011-04-18T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2014-09-08T21:01:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T21:01:03","slug":"sweepstakes-cafes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/?p=1662","title":{"rendered":"Sweepstakes Cafes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The village of Sheffield became the latest local entity to approve legislation that would allow sweepstakes cafes in their community. These businesses may begin operating on April 25, the day a six-month moratorium expires.<\/p>\n<p>Among the provisions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A $5,000 annual licensing fee;<\/li>\n<li>A $50 per machine monthly licensing fee;<\/li>\n<li>No one under the age of 18 permitted inside the business;<\/li>\n<li>Location of any such business is limited to C-2 or C-3 commercial districts;<\/li>\n<li>Prohibited from being within 500 feet of churches, schools or playgrounds;<\/li>\n<li>Alcoholic beverages in the businesses are prohibited;<\/li>\n<li>Hours of operation will be 10am-midnight on weekdays, 10am-2:30am on Saturdays and noon-10pm on Sundays.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Several other cities have taken a wait-and-see approach to see what the state plans to do about sweepstakes cafes. Parma has extended their six-month moratorium an additional 90 days; Lakewood extended their six-month moratorium an additional 6 months; and Seven Hills has extended their moratorium an additional 2 months. The attorney general&#8217;s recent announcement regarding proposed legislation would preempt any municipal legislation authorizing sweepstakes and skill game cafes when the legislation is passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The village of Sheffield became the latest local entity to approve legislation that would allow sweepstakes cafes in their community. These businesses may begin operating on April 25, the day a six-month moratorium expires. Among the provisions: A $5,000 annual licensing fee; A $50 per machine monthly licensing fee; No one under the age of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promotions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p87ey3-qO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohiogaming.keglerbrown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}