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ACT No. 40
2016 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 196
BY REPRESENTATIVE LEGER
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 27:416(C), relative to the operation of video draw poker devices
3 at qualified truck stop facilities; to provide with respect to the calculation of fuel
4 sales; to provide for exceptions regarding the fuel sales requirements at certain
5 facilities; and to provide for related matters.
6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 27:416(C) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
8 ยง416. Qualified truck stop facilities; number of devices; fuel sales
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10 C.(1) Except as provided in R.S. 27:421 and Paragraph (2) of this
11 Subsection, the number of video draw poker devices placed at a qualified truck stop
12 facility shall be based on the average monthly fuel sales calculated quarterly, using
13 four sets of three calendar months, for the first year of operation and thereafter shall
14 be based upon the average monthly fuel sales calculated annually, using a calendar
15 year, as follows:
16 (1)(a) One hundred thousand gallons of fuel of which forty thousand gallons
17 are diesel - not more than fifty devices.
18 (2)(b) Seventy-five thousand gallons of fuel of which thirty thousand gallons
19 are diesel - not more than forty devices.
20 (3)(c) Fifty thousand gallons of fuel of which ten thousand are diesel - not
21 more than thirty-five devices.
22 (2) In addition to the requirements in Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, a
23 qualified truck stop facility, except a qualified truck stop facility located in Orleans
24 Parish, which complies or has complied with one of the fuel sales requirements of
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1 Paragraph (1) of this Subsection for five consecutive years shall thereafter be
2 permitted to retain the number of devices it operated during that same consecutive
3 five-year period provided it continues to meet the fuel sales requirement set forth in
4 Subparagraph (1)(c) of this Subsection.
5 (3) The board may adopt rules to recognize alternative fuel sources to satisfy
6 the requirements regarding fuel sales provided by this Chapter.
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SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
APPROVED:
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