A. No person or organization shall conduct lawful gambling excluded or exempted from State licensure requirements by Minnesota Statutes Section 349.166, without a valid permit from the City. These gambling activities include:
1. Bingo conducted in connection with a civic celebration and is not conducted for more than twelve (12) consecutive days in a calendar year. A “civic celebration” is an event which celebrates a recognized national holiday or occasion celebrating an event proclaimed by the City Council.
2. Bingo conducted by an organization which conducts four (4) or fewer bingo occasions in a calendar year.
3. Bingo conducted within a nursing home, senior citizen housing project or by a senior citizen organization if the prizes for a single game do not exceed ten dollars ($10.00), total prizes awarded at a single occasion do not exceed two hundred dollars ($200.00), only members of the organization or residents and their guests of the nursing home or housing project are allowed to play in the bingo game, no compensation is paid for persons conducting the bingo, and a manager is appointed to supervise the bingo.
4. Raffles conducted by an organization, and if the value of all raffle prizes awarded in a calendar year does not exceed one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500.00), or if the raffle is conducted by a 501(c)(3) organization, if the value of all raffle prizes awarded by the organization at one (1) event in a calendar year does not exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000.00).
5. Lawful gambling may be conducted if the organization conducts gambling on five (5) or fewer days in a calendar year and does not award more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) in prizes.