(A) No person, firm, or corporation shall conduct a raffle in the city without having first obtained a license therefor pursuant to this chapter.
(B) Licenses shall be issued only as follows:
(1) To bona fide non-profit religious, charitable, labor, business, fraternal, educational or veterans’ organizations, and which have been in existence continuously for a period of five years and have had, during that entire five-year period, a bona fide membership engaged in carrying out their objectives; or
(2) To a non-profit fundraising organization that the licensing authority determines is organized for the sole purpose of providing financial assistance to an identified group of individuals suffering under extreme financial hardship as a result of illness, disability, accident or disaster.
(C) The following persons are ineligible for a license under this chapter:
(1) Any person who has been convicted of a felony;
(2) Any person who is not of good moral character;
(3) Any person who is or has been a professional gambler or gambling promoter;
(4) Any firm or corporation in which a person identified in divisions (C)(1), (2) or (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 identified in paragraphs divisions (C)(1), (2) or (3) above is to participate in the management or operation of a raffle as defined in this chapter;
(6) Any organization in which a person identified in divisions (C)(1), (2) or (3) of this section, is an officer, director or employee, whether compensated or not.
(Ord. 09-44, passed 2-23-10) Penalty, see § 116.02