New Jersey Legal Casino
Casino Gaming in New Jersey
New Jersey has long been associated with live casino gambling. It became the Las Vegas of the East Coast when the Resorts Casino first opened on the Atlantic City boardwalk in 1978. Today, Resorts Casino is also among the providers of online casino gambling for residents of New Jersey that are 21 years of age or older. Law and License Since the introduction of the A2578 bill in 2013, online casinos can operate legally within the state of New Jersey. Under the bill, land-based casinos in the state are permitted to partner with iGaming companies to launch legal online casinos in New Jersey. Casino gambling is big in Atlantic City, with new casinos popping up as of this writing to attract legal casino gambling play from all over the world. To date, New Jersey has no law that says that online casino gambling is any different from gambling in a land-based casino, and new laws are set to make online casino gambling even easier.
New Jersey Legal Casino Buffet
New Jersey Casinos Reopening
In 1976, legalized casino gaming was approved by the citizens of New Jersey as a unique tool of urban redevelopment for Atlantic City.
In 1977, the New Jersey Casino Control Act (the “Act”) was signed into law. It declared that the rehabilitation and redevelopment of existing tourist and convention facilities in Atlantic City, and the fostering and encouragement of new construction and the replacement of lost convention, tourist, entertainment and cultural centers in Atlantic City, will offer a unique opportunity to make maximum use of the natural resources available in Atlantic City for the expansion and encouragement of New Jersey's hospitality industry, and to that end, the restoration of Atlantic City as the Playground of the World and the major hospitality center of the Eastern United States.
The Act further declared that restricting the issuance of casino licenses to major hotel and convention facilities is designed to assure that the existing nature and tone of the hospitality industry in New Jersey and in Atlantic City is preserved, and that the casino rooms are always offered and maintained as an integral element of such hospitality facilities, rather than as the industry unto themselves that they have become in other jurisdictions.
An integral and essential element of the regulation and control of such casino facilities by the State rests in the public confidence and trust in the credibility and integrity of the regulatory process and of casino operations. To further such public confidence and trust, the State extends strict regulation to all persons, locations, practices and associations related to the operation of licensed casino enterprises and all related service industries. Comprehensive law enforcement supervision attendant thereto, is further designed to contribute to the public confidence and trust in the efficacy and integrity of the regulatory process.
The Act is designed to engender and maintain public confidence and trust in the regulation of the licensed enterprises, to provide an effective method of rebuilding and redeveloping existing facilities and of encouraging new capital investment in Atlantic City, and to provide a meaningful and permanent contribution to the economic viability of the resort, convention, and tourist industry of New Jersey. (Excerpted from the Casino Control Act, N.J.S.A. 5:12-1.)
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