With a June 30 deadline approaching, both video game parlor owners and local law enforcement are working to understand exactly what sweepstakes legislation covers.
Video poker and other electronic gambling was banned in North Carolina in 2007. Since then operators have fought to remain open and have adapted their games to comply with their reading of the law to do so.
A November 2013 injunction prevented the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office from enforcing state sweepstakes laws, Onslow County Sheriff Hans Miller said, explaining the injunction pre-dates his election to office. Miller said he recently received a call from County Attorney Lesley Moxley to inform him the North Carolina Supreme Court overturned the injunction, which would allow the sheriff’s office to enforce the state law beginning July 1.
