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Video lottery terminal (VLT) operators in South Dakota, one of the jurisdictions where the games have been legalised longest, are celebrating good news from the state’s supreme court. They may now operate virtually anywhere the state allows, and cannot be excluded by local authorities, although they are restricted to liquor-licensed locations.
The ruling resulted from an operator’s inability to open a VLT business, due to 2008 local zoning ordinances that barred new machines within 2000 feet of schools, parks or existing VLTs. The supreme court declared that local government could not make this ban, and that the South Dakota Department of Revenue and Regulation was the sole governmental entity authorised to regulate new VLT placement.
South Dakota VLT operators reported a decline of 17 to 35 percent in revenue this summer, blaming the new statewide smoking ban.
