Online Casino Decisions in US
The North Carolina government decided to fully pass some new regulations
concerning the online casino gambling industry in the US. The UIGEA is a piece
of federal legislation that has an ambiguous effect on the intrastate gambling
laws. For North Carolina, the decision to pass new internet gambling regulations
was not the big production that it has become in other states (such as New
Jersey for starters) as they ponder legalizing online casinos and instead was a
simple process of passing some further controls and laws that outlined specific
limitations. The North Carolina internet gambling laws are now designed to limit
the hours of operations, the locations of these business running internet
gambling options as well as other areas.
Online casinos are a specific type of internet gambling that is still only
questionably legal even at the intrastate level but the North Carolinian
government has decided to allow a certain type of store the right to offer up
computer terminals connected to casino gaming sites. The iffy part of the
situation is the fact that North Carolina has mandated that these stores operate
the online offerings under the sweepstakes format instead of full cash gambling.
This sweepstakes format is designed to allow the online games of chance
circumvention of the federal laws and still access to state gamblers.
While there is speculation that the format of the online casino games still may
not exactly fly with the federal government, North Carolina legislators have
outlined a handful of mandates for these new internet gambling business: each
location must be at least a half-mile away from the next and the stores offering
such services must avoid school, church and residential districts by at least
1000 feet. |