(A) Raffle licenses shall be issued only to a bona fide business, charitable, educational, fraternal, labor, religious and veterans organizations that operate without profit to their members and which have been in existence continuously for a period of five years or more immediately before making application for a license and which have and during that entire five-year period a bona fide membership engaged in carrying out the purpose of said organization.
(B) The following are ineligible for any raffle license:
(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 divisions (B)(1), (B)(2) or (B)(3) above 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 divisions (B)(1), (B)(2) or (B)(3) above is an officer, director or employee, whether compensated or not; and
(6) Any organization in which a person defined in divisions (B)(1), (B)(2) or (B)(3) above is to participate in the management or operation of a raffle as defined in this subchapter.
(1999 Code, § 7-4-4) (Ord. 92-108, passed 5-26-1992)