Skill games operator Pace-O-Matic says it will cover the legal costs and any penalties that store owners might face if they keep the company’s new machines after Attorney General Jason Miyares said they are illegal.
The company said its indemnification promise only applies to the new Queen of Virginia games that do not require players to insert money.
Pace-O-Matic says the new Queen of Virginia devices are not illegal, since state law banning skill games includes in its description language that illegal devices require inserting a coin, currency, ticket, token or similar object to operate, activate or play a game.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.