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(A) Each licensed organization shall keep records of its gross receipts and profits for each bingo occasion. All deductions from gross receipts from a bingo occasion shall be documented with receipts of other records. The distribution of profits shall be itemized as to payee, amount, and date of payment. Records required by this subchapter shall be preserved for three years.
(B) Gross receipts shall be compared to the checkers’ records for the bingo occasion by a person who did not sell cards for the bingo occasion. If a discrepancy exceeding $20 is found between the amount of gross receipts for a bingo occasion as determined by the checkers’ records and the amount of gross receipts as determined by totaling the cash receipts, the discrepancy shall be reported to and investigated by the City Council.
(C) Bingo gross receipts shall be segregated from other revenues of an organization and placed in a separate account. Each organization shall maintain separate records of its bingo operations. The person who accounts for bingo gross receipts and profits shall not be the same person who accounts for other revenues of the licensed organization.
(Prior Code, § 3-8-9)
(A) Each licensed organization shall report monthly to its membership its gross receipts from bingo, its profits from bingo, and the distribution of those profits itemized as required by § 131.38.
(B) At the time of making its first license application under this subchapter and on an annual basis thereafter, each licensed organization shall file with the City Council copies of the following:
(1) The most recently filed Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax, Form 990, or a comparable form if the organization is required to file the form with the Department of the Treasury;
(2) The most recently filed Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, Exempt Organization Business Income Tax, Form 990-T, or a comparable form if the organization is required to file the form with the Department of the Treasury;
(3) The most recently filed annual report required of charitable organizations by M.S. § 309.53, as it may be amended from time to time, provided that an organization that is licensed to conduct bingo but is exempt from submitting this report to the Department of Commerce under M.S. § 309.53, subd. Ia, as it may be amended from time to time, shall nevertheless submit such a report under this subdivision;
(4) The most recently filed state’s Department of Commerce Statement of Bingo Operations. All information contained in the statement shall be true, correct, and complete to the best of the knowledge of the persons signing the statement; and
(5) Any lease agreements required by this act executed by the organization in regard to premises leased for the conduct of bingo.
(C) No person shall knowingly make a false statement in any report required by this section.
(Prior Code, § 3-8-10) Penalty, see § 131.99
No expense shall be incurred or amounts paid in connection with the conduct of bingo except those reasonably expended for bingo supplies and equipment, prizes, rent, or utilities used during the bingo occasion, bingo license fees, and compensation to persons lawfully hired to conduct or assist in conducting a bingo occasion.
(Prior Code, § 3-8-12)
(A) Profits from any bingo occasion shall be expended only as authorized by a resolution recorded in the official minutes at a regular meeting of the licensed organization and only for one or more of the following purposes:
(1) Benefitting persons by enhancing their opportunity for religious or education 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;
(2) Initiating, performing, or fostering worthy public works or enabling or furthering the erection or maintenance of public structures;
(3) Lessening the burdens borne by government or voluntarily supporting, augmenting, or supplementing services which government would normally render to the people; or
(4) The improving, expanding, maintaining, or repairing of real property owned or leased by the licensed organization.
(B) Profits from bingo occasions shall not be expended for the erection or acquisition of any real property unless the City Council specifically authorizes the expenditures after finding that the property will be used exclusively for one or more of the purposes specified in this section.
(Prior Code, § 3-8-13)
Bingo may be conducted without complying with the requirements of §§ 131.35(E) and (F) and 131.36 if conducted:
(A) In connection with the county fair conducted by the county agricultural society or in connection with a civic celebration recognized by resolution of the City Council, provided that bingo shall not be conducted for more than 12 days during any one county fair or recognized civic celebration; or
(B) By an organization that conducts fewer than five bingo occasions in any calendar year.
(Prior Code, § 3-8-14)
(A) Any person violating any provision of this chapter for which no specific penalty is prescribed shall be subject to § 10.99 of this code of ordinances.
(B) Any person who violates any provision of §§ 131.01 through 131.16; M.S. §§ 609.75 through 609.763, inclusive, as they may be amended from time to time; or M.S. §§ 349.11 through 349.191, as they may be amended from time to time, or any rules promulgated under those sections, as they may be amended from time to time, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment for a term not to exceed 90 days, or both, plus in either case the costs of prosecution. In addition, violations shall be reported to the Board and recommendation shall be made for suspension, revocation, or cancellation of an organization’s license.
(Prior Code, § 3-12-17)
(Prior Code, § 3-8-15)
(Ord. 358, passed 1-8-2001)