(a) No person shall conduct raffles or chances within the City without first having obtained a license therefor as provided in this division.
(b) Licenses may be issued only to bona fide religious, charitable, labor, business, fraternal, educational, or veterans' organizations that operate without profit to their members and which have been in existence continuously for a period of five years immediately before making application for a license and which have had during that entire five-year period a bona fide membership engaged in carrying out their objects, or to a nonprofit fund raising organization that the city determines is organized for the sole purpose of providing financial assistance to an identified individual or group of individuals suffering extreme financial hardship as the result of an illness, disability, accident, or disaster.
(c) Notwithstanding any contrary provision contained in this division, the following are ineligible for any license under this division:
(1) Any person who has been convicted of a felony.
(2) Any person who is or has been a professional gambler or gambling promoter.
(3) Any person who is not of good moral character.
(4) Any firm or corporation in which a person defined in subsection (c)(1), (2) or (3) of this section has a proprietary, equitable or credit interest, or in which such a person is active or employed.
(5) Any organization in which a person defined in subsection (c)(1), (2) and (3) of this section is an officer, director or employee, whether compensated or not.
(6) Any organization in which a person defined in subsection (c)(1), (2) or (3) of this section is to participate in the management or operation of a raffle.
(Ord. 2007-8-2. Passed 8-8-07.)