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Only organizations exempted from the payment of the bank and corporation tax by Sections 23701a, 23701b, 23701d, 23701e, 23701f, 23701g and 23701l of the Cal. Rev. & Tax. Code, mobilehome park associations and senior citizens organizations may conduct bingo games; and only if the receipts of those games are used for charitable purposes.
(Ord. 1019, passed 1-20-98)
It is a misdemeanor for any person to receive or pay a profit, wage, or salary from any bingo game authorized by Section 19 of Article IV of the State Constitution. Security personnel employed by the organization conducting the bingo game may be paid from the revenues of bingo games, as provided in Cal. Penal Code § 326.5 (j) and (k).
(Ord. 1019, passed 1-20-98)
An organization authorized to conduct bingo games pursuant to § 113.02 shall conduct a bingo game only on property owned or leased by it, or property whose use is donated to the organization, and which property is used by that organization for an office or for performance of the purposes for which the organization is organized. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require that the property owned or leased by, or whose use is donated to, the organization be used or leased exclusively by, or donated exclusively to, that organization.
(Ord. 1019, passed 1-20-98)
A bingo game shall be operated and staffed only by members of the authorized organization that organized it. Those members shall not receive a profit, wage, or salary from any bingo game. Only the organization authorized to conduct a bingo game shall operate such a game, or participate in the promotion, supervision, or any other phase of a bingo game. This subdivision does not preclude the employment of security personnel who are not members of the authorized organization at a bingo game by the organization conducting the game.
(Ord. 1019, passed 1-20-98)
With respect to organizations exempt from payment of the bank and corporation tax by Cal. Rev. & Tax. Code § 23701d, all profits derived from a bingo game shall be kept in a special fund or account and shall not be commingled with any other fund or account. Those profits shall be used only for charitable purposes.
(Ord. 1019, passed 1-20-98)
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