For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BOARD. The Charitable Gambling Control Board.
LAWFUL GAMBLING. The operation, conduct or sale of bingo, raffles, paddlewheels, tipboards and pull-tabs for a lawful purpose as herein defined.
LAWFUL PURPOSE.
(1) One or more of the following:
(a) Benefitting persons by enhancing their opportunity for religious or educational advancement, by relieving or protecting them from disease, suffering or distress, by contributing to their physical well-being, by assisting them in establishing themselves in life as worthy and useful citizens or by increasing their comprehension of and devotion to the principles upon which this nation was founded;
(b) Initiating, performing or fostering worthy public works or enabling or furthering the erection or maintenance of public structures;
(c) Lessening the burdens borne by government or voluntarily supporting, augmenting or supplementing services which government would normally render to the people; and/or
(d) Payment of taxes imposed under this subchapter, and other taxes imposed by the state or the United States on receipts from lawful gambling.
(2) LAWFUL PURPOSE does not include the erection, acquisition, improvement, expansion, repair or maintenance of any real property owned or leased by the organization, unless the Board specifically authorizes the expenditures after finding that the property will be used exclusively for one or more of the purposes specified in divisions (1)(a) through (1)(c) above.
ORGANIZATION. Any fraternal, religious, veterans’ or other non-profit organization having its headquarters in the city.
PROFIT. The gross receipts collected from lawful gambling, less reasonable sums necessarily and actually expended for gambling supplies and equipment, prizes, rent and utilities used during the gambling occasions, compensation paid to members for conducting gambling, taxes imposed by statute and maintenance of devices used in lawful gambling.
(2004 Code, § 114.20)