A. Any person, firm, business, corporation, organization or other entity seeking to conduct or operate a poker run shall file an application therefore with the Commissioner on the forms provided by the Commissioner.
B. Applications for licenses under this Section must contain the following information:
1. The name and address of the applicant organization;
2. The type of organization that is conducting the raffle or poker run, i.e., religious, charitable, labor, fraternal, educational, veterans or other;
3. The length of existence of the organization and, if incorporated, the date and state of incorporation;
4. The name, address, telephone number, and date of birth of the organization’s presiding officer, secretary, and any other members responsible for the conduct and operation of the raffle or poker run;
5. The name, address, and telephone number of all locations at which the poker run will be conducted;
6. The time period during which the poker run will be conducted;
7. The time of determination of winning chances and the location or locations at which the winning chances will be determined;
8. A sworn statement attesting to the not-for-profit character of the prospective licensee organization signed by the presiding officer and the secretary of that organization; and
9. A certificate signed by the presiding officer of the applicant organization attesting to the fact that the information contained in the application is true and correct.
10. A sworn statement attesting that the applicant organization is a bona fide religious, charitable, labor, business, fraternal, educational, veterans’ or other bona fide not-for-profit organization that operates without profit to its members and has been in existence continuously for a period of 5 years immediately before making application for a poker run license and which has been during that entire 5-year period a bona fide membership engaged in carrying out their objects. Licenses for poker runs shall be issued for the following purposes: (i) 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 or (ii) to maintain the financial stability of the organization.
11. A sworn statement attesting that the applicant organization has no officer, director, or employee, whether compensated or not, nor any person that is to participate in the management or operation of the poker run whose felony conviction will impair the person’s ability to engage in the licensed position signed by the presiding officer and the secretary of that organization excluding: juvenile adjudications of delinquent minors as defined in Section 5-105 of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 5-130 of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 or as hereafter amended; law enforcement records, court records, and conviction records of an individual who was 17 years old at the time of the offense and before January 1, 2014, unless the nature of the offense required the individual to be tried as an adult; records of arrest not followed by a conviction; convictions overturned by a higher court; and convictions or arrests that have been sealed or expunged.
C. An application for a license to conduct or operate a poker run shall be accompanied by a nonrefundable $5 shall be charged by the County of McHenry and paid to the Commissioner at the time of application for a poker run license.
D. The Commissioner is authorized to waive the 5-year requirement under paragraph B.10. of this section or remit the application to the Law & Government/Liquor Committee for review and recommendation on whether to waive the 5-year requirement under paragraph B.10. of this section if the organization is a local organization that is affiliated with and chartered by a national or State organization that meets the 5-year requirement.
(Ord. O-201505-12-020, § VII, passed 5-5-2015; Ord. 7470, passed 3-19-2019)