Social gaming question posed to CJ electorate
From our weekly issue dated May 12, 2010
In the Tuesday, May 18 vote-by-mail primary election, Cave Junction voters will decide whether or not they want to allow social gaming within city limits.
The city council passed an ordinance Feb. 8 to refer the matter to citizens. Andrea Thomas, owner of Nacho Mamas restaurant downtown, approached the council with a request to allow social gaming in her establishment.
Thomas said that she wanted to boost revenues during the slow winter months. She also has argued that having more nighttime activities in Cave Junction businesses will deter crime rather than increasing it.
Oregon Revised Statute 167.121 enables municipalities to allow and regulate social gaming within their jurisdictions. As such, the question being posed to Cave Junction voters on the ballot is a simple one.
“Shall the City of Cave Junction enable social gaming under ORS 167.121““
If the measure is approved by a majority of voters, the council will enact an ordinance to enable social gaming and establish regulations and licensing requirements for businesses hoping to allow it.
Under the ordinance, social gaming could be conducted in a private business, private club or in a place or public accommodation. Social gaming is defined as a game, other than a lottery, between players in a private home where no house player, house bank or house odds exist; and there is no house income from the operation.
The city anticipates that allowing social gaming would be “revenue neutral,“ because the costs to administer the licensing and regulation would be offset by revenue gained from the receipt of licensing fees.
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