{"id":349099,"date":"2026-06-24T22:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/349099\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T22:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T22:29:00","slug":"league-city-postpones-final-vote-on-banning-gambling-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/349099\/","title":{"rendered":"League City postpones final vote on banning gambling devices"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLeague City City Council postponed a vote on whether to prohibit gambling devices in the city to July at its June 23 meeting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The details<\/p>\n

At its June 23 meeting, City Council voted unanimously to move the second and final reading of an ordinance prohibiting gambling devices in the city. Earlier in June<\/a>, council unanimously approved the first reading to prohibit the gambling devices.<\/p>\n

Council member Chad Tressler made the motion to move the vote to July, but did not clarify his reasoning at the meeting.<\/p>\n

Digging deeper<\/p>\n

The ordinance specifically prohibits the operation or display of electronic gaming devices commonly known as eight-liners, as well as video poker, keno, blackjack and slot-machine-style devices, according to city documents.<\/p>\n

In doing so, the city declared both the gambling devices themselves and the premises where they are operated to be a public nuisance and violations as misdemeanors, according to city documents.<\/p>\n

The ordinance distinguishes between lawful amusement devices like arcade games and claw machines, which Mayor Nick Long said were often used as a loophole to operate the gambling devices.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past you could bring these gaming places in and say they were just for entertainment value and they were paying out stuffed animals and tokens … but in reality, they\u2019re just illegal gambling places,\u201d Long said<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"League City City Council postponed a vote on whether to prohibit gambling devices in the city to July…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,124469,52553,124470],"class_list":["post-349099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-league-city-budget","tag-league-city-city-council","tag-league-city-workshpop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}