{"id":288319,"date":"2026-09-17T18:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288319\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:12:08","slug":"pennsylvania-state-police-remind-businesses-of-upcoming-deadline-to-remove-slot-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288319\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police remind businesses of upcoming deadline to remove slot machines"},"content":{"rendered":"

PENNSYLVANIA (WHP) \u2014 “Skill games” or slot machines are found in a variety of establishments across Pennsylvania, and state police remind businesses of the upcoming deadline to remove them. <\/p>\n

All skill games or slot machines outside of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) licensed businesses are unlawful as of Oct. 14.<\/p>\n

On June 15, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled that skill games include slot machines and that a person or business without proper licensing can be charged with a criminal offense.<\/p>\n

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Distributors and manufacturers of slot machines have been cautioned that it is a criminal offense to maintain, assemble, set up, make, sell or lease slot machines unless they are licensed, according to officials.<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania State Police and law enforcement agencies will take action against businesses that continue to possess these gambling devices without proper licensing.<\/p>\n

Officials may seize the machines, associated equipment and proceeds, in addition to filing criminal charges.<\/p>\n

\u201cA slot machine does not cease being a slot machine if it has simply been turned off, unplugged, or temporarily disabled, allowing it to be readily operated,\u201d according to Pennsylvania State Police.<\/p>\n

For more information on the regulations, visit the Pennsylvania State Police website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA (WHP) \u2014 “Skill games” or slot machines are found in a variety of establishments across Pennsylvania, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-288319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}