Warner Robins Cracks Down On Electronic Gaming Machines

WARNER ROBINS, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) – The City of Warner Robins is cracking down on businesses that have electronic gaming machines.

Warner Robins City Council wants to enforce the strictest rules the state allows on businesses throughout the city that have gaming machines. Council heard the ordinance during Monday night’s city council meeting.

The ordinance would limit the number of gaming machines to nine per business. It would also require owners to post signs letting customers know prizes and pay outs worth more than five dollars are illegal. Other regulations would force business owners to report monthly earnings to the city and earnings from those machines can not make up half of the business’ income.

It will also require business owners to install high tech security cameras which will be inspected every month by Warner Robins police. Council hopes this will help cut back on crime.

“To be able to have those surveillance cameras, they’re very important,” Councilman Mark Daley said. “They can be on the machines, they can be tracking track if somebody were to come in to rob the place, those cameras are there.”

A second reading of the ordinance will take place during the next city council meeting on October 15th.