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Article: SLOTS MAY GET SPECIAL RULES.(NEWS)
- Article from:
- The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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Byline: Mark R. Chellgren The Associated Press
FRANKFORT -- A proposal to let Kentucky race tracks operate slot machines would exempt those operations from many state and local laws.
The slot operations would be excluded from local planning and zoning rules and exempt from many local taxes. The state agency that would oversee the additional gambling would not have to comply with many open records and meetings requirements.
The proposal for slots, one of the hottest topics in the Kentucky General Assembly, is being pushed by horse tracks whose bettors are being wooed by floating casinos in Indiana. Turfway Park in Florence, one of the strongest ...