(A) No person, firm or corporation shall conduct a raffle or sell chances for a raffle or conduct a poker run having its key location or any predetermined poker run location within the City without first having obtained a license pursuant to this Section.
(B) A license to conduct a raffle shall authorize a licensee to sell raffle chances throughout the State of Illinois, including beyond the corporate limits of the City. Internet sale and purchase of a raffle chance is permitted, but online sale of a raffle chance may be made only to a person who places the purchase order from a location within the State of Illinois. A license to conduct a poker run shall authorize a poker run to be conducted only at location(s) within the corporate limits of the City of Mt. Vernon which are designated in the license application; the license granted for the key location for a poker run shall cover the entire poker run including locations other than the key location, provided the application and license include the name and address of each predetermined location.
(C) (1) Licenses for raffles or poker runs shall be issued only to bona fide religious, charitable, labor, business, fraternal, educational, veterans, or other bona fide not-for-profit organizations which operate without profit to their members, which have been in existence continuously for a period of five years immediately before making application for a license and which have during the entire five-year period been engaged in carrying out their objectives and which maintain an office in the City, or to a non-profit fund raising organization that the Mayor 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 or to any law enforcement agencies and statewide associations that represent law enforcement officials.
(2) The Mayor may waive the 5-year requirement under this subsection for a bona fide religious, charitable, labor, business, fraternal, educational, veterans, or other bona fide not-for-profit organization that applies for a license to conduct a raffle or poker run if the organization is a local organization that is affiliated with and chartered by a national or State organization that meeting the 5-year requirement.
(D) A License shall permit an Applicant to issue or sell raffle chances or conduct a poker run only for the dates stated in the license application.
(Prior Code, Art. 11, § 11.17(c))