A check-cashing facility cannot be licensed if it would be within 300 feet of an official gaming establishment or a riverboat docking facility, with specific measurement methods for each.
§423. Check-cashing facility; location of business limited A. No license shall be granted for the operation of a check-cashing facility which will be situated within three hundred feet or less of any official gaming establishment or designated docking facility of a riverboat licensed to conduct gaming activities or gaming operations pursuant to Chapter 4 or 5 of Title 27 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950. As to official gaming establishments, this distance shall be measured as a person walks using the sidewalk from the nearest point of the property line of the official gaming establishment to the nearest point of the facility. As to docking facilities, this distance shall be measured in a straight line from the nearest point of the docking facility to the nearest point of the check-cashing facility. B. The subsequent construction, erection, development, or movement of an official gaming establishment or designated docking facility which causes a check-cashing facility to be located within the prohibited distance shall not be cause for revocation, withholding, denial, or nonrenewal of a license. C. For purposes of this Section, "check-cashing facility" means a facility whose primary business is the cashing of checks, drafts, money orders, or travelers checks for a fee. The term does not include a bank, trust company, savings bank, savings and loan association, or credit union. D. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to an individual, partnership, unincorporated association, or corporation that charges no fee to the presenter or payor for the cashing of a check, draft, money order, or traveler's check. Acts 1993, No. 743, §1; Acts 1999, No. 1208, §1, eff. July 9, 1999.