3770.21 Video lottery terminals.
3770.21 Video lottery terminals.
(A) “Video lottery terminal” means any electronic device approved by the state lottery commission that provides immediate prize determinations for participants on an electronic display.
(B) The state lottery commission shall include, in any rules adopted concerning video lottery terminals, the level of minimum investments that must be made by video lottery terminal licensees in the buildings and grounds at the facilities, including temporary facilities, in which the terminals will be located, along with any standards and timetables for such investments.
(C)No license or excise tax or fee not in effect on the effective date of this section shall be assessed upon or collected from a video lottery terminal licensee by any county, township, municipal corporation, school district, or other political subdivision of the state that has authority to assess or collect a tax or fee by reason of the video lottery terminal related conduct authorized by section 3770.03 of the Revised Code. This division does not prohibit the imposition of taxes under Chapter 718. or 3769. of the Revised Code.
(D) The supreme court shall have exclusive, original jurisdiction over any claim asserting that this section or section 3770.03 of the Revised Code or any portion of those sections or any rule adopted under those sections violates any provision of the Ohio Constitution, any claim asserting that any action taken by the governor or the lottery commission pursuant to those sections violates any provision of the Ohio Constitution or any provision of the Revised Code, or any claim asserting that any portion of this section violates any provision of the Ohio Constitution. If any claim over which the supreme court is granted exclusive, original jurisdiction by this division is filed in any lower court, the claim shall be dismissed by the court on the ground that the court lacks jurisdiction to review it.
(E) Should any portion of this section or of section 3770.03 of the Revised Code be found to be unenforceable or invalid, it shall be severed and the remaining portions remain in full force and effect.
Added by 128th General Assembly File No. 9, HB 1, § 101.01, eff. 7/17/2009.