The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-09
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crate bingo games in a municipality in which the government body has voted to permit the playing thereof shall make application to the chief of police of any municipality having a police department or to the first selectman of any town in which there is no police department, which application shall contain a state- ment of the name and address of the applicant, the location of the place at which the games are to be played and the seating capacity of such place, the date or dates for dates for which g. permit is sought, the class of permit sought and any other pertinent information required by such official, and, upon payment of the fee hereinafter provided for, such official is authorized to issue such permit.
 Sec. 4. Permits shall be known as "Class A, which shall be one-day permits and shall permit the con- duct of not more than forty and not less than fifteen bingo games on such day, and "Class B., which shall permit not more than forty and not less than fifteen bingo games dur ing any one day of each week be- tween the date of issue of any such permit -and September IS fol- lowing. "Class B" permits shall allow the playing of bingo no more than one day weekly. Not more than one Glass A" permit shall be is- sued to one person for use in one week, and only one permit shall be issued for any one day in any one location.
 Sec. 5. The seating capacity of the place in which the games are to be played shall determine the amount of the permit fee, as fol- lows: for seating capacity of not more than fifty persons, Glass A." one dollar; Glass B." twenty-five dollars; for 8 seating capacity of more than fifty persons and not more than one hundred persons, Glass A." two dollars; Glass B." fifty dollars; for seating capacity of more than one hundred persons and not more than two hundred persons, "Class A." five dollars; Glass B." one hundred dollars; for a seating capacity of more than two hundred persons and not more than five hundred persons, Glass A." fif- teen dollars; Glass B." one hundred and fifty dollars; for seating ca- pacity of more than five hundred persons and not more than seven hundred and fifty persons, Glass A." twenty-five dollars; Glass B. two hundred dollars and for seat- ing capacity of more than seven hundred and fifty persons, "C1ass A." fifty dollars; Glass B." two hundred and fifty dollars. All fees for said permits shall become the property of the town, city ol borough wherein said permits art issued.
 Sec. 6. Each person who shall operate bingo games shall keep &C., curate records of receipts and dis bursements, which shall be available for inspection by the authority au- thorized to issue permits therefor.
 Sec. 2. Prizes offered for the winning of such games shall consist of merchandise or other personal property, property and retail value of all prizes offered at all the games in one day shall not exceed two hun- dred and fifty dollars. Cash prizes shall not be permitted. Extra or cumulative prizes shall not be per- mitted. The buying back of bingo prizes by the permittee shall not be permitted.
 Sec. 8. The authority granting any such permit shall immediately revoke the same for violation of any provision of this act and shall not issue any permit to such per- mittee within one year from the date of such revocation.
 Sec. 9. Any person who shall pro- mote or operate any bingo game without permit therefor shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than sixty days or both.
 Approved, June 29 1889.