Star. Genoa: appeals to the TAR against the no-slot regulation ready for notification
(Jamma) Safeguard the "Natural Historic Center" of the city, i.e. that area of interest for the purpose of protecting historical-environmental values and local traditions, coinciding with the historic center indicated by the Municipal Master Plan. This is the objective set by the municipal administration of Aosta with a resolution, approved yesterday by the First Council Commission "Economic and cultural development".
Regional Law 5 of 25 February 2013 in fact completely repealed the provisions approved by the Aosta City Council in 2004 in terms of authorizations for medium and large sales structures.
“This resolution – he explains Patricia Carradore, Municipal Councilor for Tourism, Sport, Commerce and Equal Opportunities - wants to safeguard the image and decorum of the historical, environmental and cultural places of the city, also in accordance with respect for the viability. Liberalization is maximum and the freedom of commercial competition at the highest levels, but with some exceptions. In fact, we tried with our offices to understand what limitations were to be kept with respect to the 2004 resolution, practically repealed in its entirety by Law 5/2013".
Limitations that the Councilor has proposed to maintain and which above all try to keep warehouses, deposits, scrap, tyres, packaging, recycled materials and, among others, also the video game rooms and slot machines which cyclically resurface in the council debates.
It is just one of the latest examples of local governments attempting to introduce restrictions on the amusement machine market through the introduction of Urban Plans. But on the same day in which the Aosta Valley administrators embarked on the initiative, the judges of the Bolzano TAR postponed to next July the decision on the appeal presented by an operator who saw himself sanctioned with the suspension of his license for not having removed from his the slots as required by a trade union ordinance of 2012. The Trentino municipality has in fact adopted a regulation according to which the removal of the slots was foreseen by a pre-established date and the operator who appealed to the Tar had been notified of a ordinance “for the removal of lawful games and for the suspension of the activity of the public establishment pursuant to art. 47, paragraph 2 of Provincial Law 58/1988" sub prot. 41989 addendum 5.6.2013 of the Deputy Mayor of the Municipality of Bolzano with which he ordered "within and no later than five (5) days of receipt (...)" "the removal of the lawful gaming machines present in the public exercise" de quo and it was "the suspension of public exercise activities until the removal of the lawful games".
