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Monday, April 1, 2019

Floating Casino May Become
a Part of Silver Lake's Future*

We need to decide quickly to get behind this [floating casino] or fight it as it will change the character of our lake for better or worse.
As you know, according to NY DOT and DEC, our little lake, while land locked, is considered a navigable waterway and special rules apply for gaming and sports betting when conducted in navigable waters.
Due to Silver Lake's proximity to Rochester, Canada, Buffalo and Southern Tier, a group of investors (I will expose them in next post) are preparing an application in Albany to anchor a floating casino in the middle of the lake and use the state land at South end as a loading dock for a small ferry. During the winter it will sit on the ice and be marketed as a ice casino along lines of what they do for the ice hotels https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_hotel
In my humble opinion [IMHO], with our dairy industry hurting, depopulation of our villages and lack of jobs in our community, this casino could be a silver bullet to fix things. but if done wrong, it could make a mess of our lake.
Please share this message today as it's very important we get the word out today.

* The Silver Lake Daily Newsletter is unable to independently verify the veracity of this story.

Comment 1:
Greg,   Your post about the casino on the lake had me going but then again, today is April first.    Bob [Cook]


Background as per Wikipedia


riverboat casino is a type of casino on a riverboat found in several states in the United States with frontage on the Mississippi River and its tributaries, or along the Gulf Coast. Several states authorized this type of casino in order to enable gaming but limit the areas where casinos could be constructed; it was a type of legal fiction as the riverboats were seldom if ever taken away from the dock.

HistoryEdit

Paddle-wheel riverboats had long been used on the Mississippi River and its tributaries to transport passengers and freight. After railroads largely superseded them, in the 20th century, they were more frequently used for entertainment excursions, sometimes for several hours, than for passage among riverfront towns. They were often a way for people to escape the heat of the town, as well as to enjoy live music and dancing. Gambling was also common on the riverboats, in card games and via slot machines.
When riverboat casinos were first approved in the late 20th century by the states, which generally prohibited gaming on land, these casinos were required to be located on ships that could sail away from the dock. In some areas, gambling was allowed only when the ship was sailing, as in the traditional excursions. They were approved in states with frontage along the Mississippi and its tributaries, including Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri.
As an example, in 1994 Missouri voters approved amending the state constitution to allow "games of chance" on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. By 1998, "according to the state Gaming Commission, just three of the 16 operations comprising Missouri's $652-million riverboat gambling industry [were] clearly on the main river channel." The state supreme court had ruled that boats had to be "solely over and in contact with the surface" of the rivers.[1] Several casinos had been located on riverboats located in a moator an area with water adjacent to a navigable waterway, leading them to be referred to as "boats in moats."[1] The state legislatures were unwilling to give up the revenues generated by gambling. Over time, they allowed gaming casinos to be built on stilts but they still had to be over navigable water.
Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which destroyed most riverboat casinos and their associated facilities of hotels, restaurants, etc., in states along the Gulf Coast, several states changed their enabling legislation or amended constitutions. They permitted such casinos to be built on land within certain geographic limits from a navigable waterway. Most of Mississippi's Gulf Coast riverboat casinos have been rebuilt since the hurricane.

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