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Subchapter 18: [Repealed]
Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 1996/042.
Subchapter 19: Bingo Licensing Law
As used in this subchapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
a. "Control commission" or "commission" or "board" shall mean the state gaming commission.
b. "Bingo" or "game" shall mean and include a specific game of chance, commonly known as bingo or lotto, in which prizes are awarded on the basis of designated numbers or symbols on a card conforming to numbers or symbols selected at random.
c. "Authorized organization" shall mean and include a charitable or educational non-profit organization or a non-profit organization of veterans or any bona fide religious or charitable organization or bona fide educational, fraternal, civil or service organization or bona fide organization of veterans or volunteer firefighters, which by its charter, certificate of incorporation, constitution, or act of the legislature, shall have among its dominant purposes one or more of the lawful purposes as defined in article fourteen-H of the general municipal law, provided that each shall operate without profit to its members, and provided that each such organization has engaged in serving one or more of the lawful purposes as defined in article fourteen-H of the general municipal law for a period of one year immediately prior to applying for a license under this subchapter, and provided, such organization, if unincorporated, has a membership of not less than twenty-five persons.
d. "License" shall mean a license issued pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter and article fourteen-H of the general municipal law.
e. "Regular bingo game" shall mean a game that is played on a card or cards issued to a player upon payment of the admission fee provided in this subchapter.
f. "Special bingo game" shall mean any game which is not a "regular bingo game."
g. "Opportunity" shall mean a one-faced chance to participate in a game or games of bingo.
(Am. 2020 N.Y. Laws Ch. 243, 10/7/2020, eff. 10/7/2020)
The administrative powers granted to the governing body of the city under the provisions of article fourteen-H of the general municipal law, in relation to the issuance, amendment and cancellation of licenses, the conduct of investigations and hearings, the supervision of the operation of the games and the collection and transmission of fees, are hereby conferred upon the commissioner pursuant to the provisions of section four hundred ninety-eight of the general municipal law.
It shall be lawful for any authorized organization, upon obtaining a license therefor as hereinafter provided, to conduct the game of bingo within the territorial limits of the city, subject to the provisions of this subchapter, the provisions of article fourteen-H of the general municipal law and the provisions of the bingo licensing law.
The conduct of bingo games authorized by this subchapter shall be subject to the following restrictions:
a. No person, firm, association, corporation or organization other than a licensee under the provisions of this subchapter, shall conduct such game or shall lease or otherwise make available for conducting bingo a hall or other premises for any consideration whatsoever, direct or indirect.
b. No bingo games shall be held, operated or conducted on or within any leased premises if rental under such lease is to be paid, wholly or partly, on the basis of a percentage of the receipts or net profits derived from the operation of such game.
c. No authorized organization licensed under the provisions of this subchapter shall purchase or receive any supplies or equipment specifically designed or adapted for use in the conduct of bingo games from other than a supplier licensed under the bingo licensing law or from another authorized organization.
d. The entire net proceeds of any game of bingo and of any rental shall be exclusively devoted to the lawful purposes of the organization permitted to conduct the same.
e. No prize shall exceed the sum or value of two hundred fifty dollars in any single game of bingo.
f. No series of prizes on any one bingo occasion shall aggregate more than one thousand dollars.
g. No person except a bona fide member of any such organization shall participate in the management or operation of such game.
h. No person shall receive any remuneration for participating in the management or operation of any game of bingo.
i. The unauthorized conduct of a bingo game and any wilful violation of any provision of this subchapter shall constitute and be punishable as a misdemeanor.
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