§ 475. Short title; purpose of article. This article shall be known and may be cited as the bingo licensing law. The legislature hereby declares that the raising of funds for the promotion of bona fide charitable, educational, scientific, health, religious, civic and patriotic causes and undertakings, where the beneficiaries are indefinite, is in the […]
§ 476. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. “Municipality” shall mean any city, town or village within this state. 2. “Control commission” or “commission” shall mean the New York state gaming commission created pursuant to section one hundred two of the racing, pari-mutuel wagering and breeding […]
§ 477. Local option. Subject to the provisions of this article, and pursuant to the direction contained in subdivision two of section nine of article one of the constitution of the state, the legislature hereby gives and grants to every municipality the right, power and authority to authorize the conduct of bingo games by authorized […]
§ 478. Local laws and ordinances. 1. The common council or other local legislative body of any municipality may, either by local law or ordinance, provide that 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 such […]
§ 479. Restrictions upon conduct of bingo games. The conduct of bingo games authorized by local law or ordinance shall be subject to the following restrictions irrespective of whether the restrictions are contained in such local law or ordinance; but nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the inclusion within such local law or ordinance […]
§ 480. Application for license. 1. To conduct bingo. (a) Each applicant for a license to conduct bingo shall, after obtaining an identification number from the control commission, file with the clerk of the municipality a written or electronic application therefor in the form prescribed in the rules and regulations of the control commission, duly […]
§ 481. Investigation; matters to be determined; issuance of license; fees; duration of license. 1. The governing body of the municipality shall make an investigation of the qualifications of each applicant and the merits of each application, with due expedition after the filing of the application. (a) Issuance of licenses to conduct bingo. If the […]
§ 482. Hearing; amendment of license. 1. No application for the issuance of a license shall be denied by the governing body until after a hearing, held on due notice to the applicant, at which the applicant shall be entitled to be heard upon the qualifications of the applicant and the merits of the application. […]
§ 483. Form and contents of license; display of license. 1. Eeach license to conduct bingo shall be in such form as shall be prescribed in the rules and regulations promulgated by the control commission, and shall contain a statement of the name and address of the licensee, of the names and addresses of the […]
§ 484. Control and supervision; suspension of licenses; inspection of premises. 1. The governing body of any municipality issuing any license under this article shall have and exercise rigid control and close supervision over all games of bingo conducted under such license, to the end that the same are fairly conducted in accordance with the […]
§ 485. Sunday; conduct of games on. No games of bingo shall be conducted under any license issued under this article on the first day of the week, commonly known as designated as Sunday, unless it shall be otherwise provided in the license issued for the holding, operating and conducting thereof, pursuant to the provisions […]
§ 486. Participation by persons under the age of eighteen. No person under the age of eighteen years shall be permitted to play any game or games of bingo conducted pursuant to any license issued under this article. No person under the age of eighteen years shall be permitted to conduct, operate or assist in […]
§ 487. Frequency of game; sale of alcoholic beverages. No game or games of bingo, except limited period bingo, shall be conducted under any license issued under this article more often than on eighteen days in any three successive calendar months. No game or games of limited period bingo shall be conducted between the hours […]
§ 488. Persons operating and conducting games; equipment; expenses; compensation. 1. No person shall hold, operate or conduct any game of bingo under any license issued under this article except a bona fide member of the authorized organization to which the license is issued, and no person shall assist in the holding, operating or conducting […]
§ 489. Charge for admission and participation; amount of prizes; award of prizes. Except in the conduct of limited period bingo, not more than five dollars shall be charged by any licensee for admission to any room or place in which any game or games of bingo are to be conducted under any license issued […]
§ 490. Advertising of bingo games. A licensee may advertise the conduct of an occasion of bingo to the general public by means of newspaper, radio, circular, handbill and poster, by one sign not exceeding sixty square feet in area, which may be displayed on or adjacent to the premises owned or occupied by a […]
§ 491. Statement of receipts, expenses; additional license fees. 1. Within seven days after the conclusion of any occasion of bingo, the authorized organization that conducted the same, and such authorized organization’s members who were in charge thereof, and when applicable the authorized organization that rented its premises therefor, shall each furnish to the clerk […]
§ 492. Examination of books and records; examination of managers, etc.; disclosure of information. The governing body of the municipality and the control commission shall have power to examine or cause to be examined the books and records of 1. Any authorized organization which is or has been licensed to conduct bingo, so far as […]
§ 493. Appeals from municipal governing body to control commission. Any applicant for, or holder of, any license issued or to be issued under this article aggrieved by any action of the governing body of the municipality to which such application has been made or by which such license has been issued, may appeal to […]
§ 494. Exemption from prosecution. No person or corporation lawfully conducting, or participating in the conduct of bingo or permitting the conduct upon any premises owned or leased by him or it under any license lawfully issued pursuant to this article, shall be liable to prosecution or conviction for violation of any provision of article […]
