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Palmyra Council advances draft skill-games ordinance to solicitor for review, seeks clearer enforcement language
Summary
Council members discussed an ordinance to regulate games of skill, keeping machines in private clubs and certain veterans organizations and proposing annual terminal fees and penalties; council directed the solicitor to review and convert the draft into formal ordinance language and asked for tighter enforcement provisions.
Palmyra Borough Councilors agreed to send a draft ordinance regulating electronic skill games to the borough solicitor for review and formal ordinance drafting, while asking staff to tighten enforcement language and consider impacts on private clubs.
Councilor Marjorie Bridal presented the draft ordinance, saying it would not ban skill games but would regulate where they may operate and require businesses to implement age verification and terminal registration. “This does not ban skill games in the borough,” Bridal said, adding the draft would keep games largely in liquor-license establishments and nationally recognized veterans…
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