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Appeals court: Slots can start up in Broward
Associated Press
Published September 30, 2005
MIAMI - A state appeals court agrees that four Broward County parimutuels are not restricted from installing slot machines while awaiting state and county rules on their use.
An attorney for those facilities, though, said they will likely wait and give the Florida Legislature some more time to write laws regulating slots.
On Wednesday, the 4th District Court of Appeal affirmed a Broward circuit court decision allowing the parimutuels to install the equipment without state parameters in place.
Buddy Jacobs, an attorney for Broward's state attorney, said the ruling will be appealed. "For them to bring in the slots, they do so at their own risk," he said.
Voters statewide passed a constitutional amendment last November permitting Broward and Miami-Dade counties to have slots if their voters approved. Broward voters did.
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