The Congress of Nueva Leon state in Mexico has approved reforms to the Urban Development Law, which prohibits the issue of new business premises ground use permits for the installation of casinos. Effectively the reforms say that the prohibition covers “the use of premises for the construction and building of casinos, betting centres, lotteries, gaming houses and similar businesses”.
In Nuevo Leon, as in all Mexican states, gaming licences granted by the Secretaria de Gobernacion must obtain local permits for premises ground use like the one prohibited by the Nueva Leon Congress. In Nuevo Leon the law reform was unanimously approved by four parliamentary parties, under the direction of Representative Hector Morales Rivera, president of the Urban Development Commission.
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This is the first legislation reform passed in Mexico that prohibits the expansion of casinos in the country, and the Congress of Nuevo Leon state has acted after the local criminal drug cartel attack on Monterrey’s Casino Royale, which left 52 dead. The attack was conducted by criminals against the casino owners who refused to pay protection money. (E-10.25.11)
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