Today, the ABCA regulates 2,303 businesses with licenses allowing them to serve alcohol on their premises. Special seals are used by the West Virginia Lottery to prevent anyone from tampering with video lottery machines at the race tracks. The West Virginia Lottery Commission, the most natural agency to supervise gambling activities, currently does not have the staff, or the finances, to monitor thousands of gray machines. Ready and willing West Virginia state law is clear. It is illegal to pay people playing video gaming machines.
All money seized during a raid is forfeited to the county government.
The machines are seized and destroyed. Will Steele both said payouts are illegal. But the state constitution prevents the attorney general from initiating prosecutions. Only county prosecutors can. However, this office does not have prosecutorial powers or authority to act in this matter, absent direction from the governor, who is charged with the constitutional duty to see that the laws of this state are faithfully executed.