Source: https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/?id=349.18&year=2010
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349.18 - 2010 Minnesota Statutes
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2012 Subd. 1 Amended 2012 c 299 art 4 s 56
2009 Subd. 1 Amended 2009 c 124 s 44
2009 Subd. 2 Repealed 2009 c 124 s 60
2008 Subd. 1 Amended 2008 c 260 s 13
2005 Subd. 1 Amended 2005 c 166 art 1 s 30
2004 Subd. 1 Amended 2004 c 172 s 6
2004 Subd. 2 Amended 2004 c 172 s 7
2003 Subd. 1 Amended 2003 c 110 s 36
2000 Subd. 1 Amended 2000 c 300 s 5
2000 Subd. 2 Amended 2000 c 300 s 6
1998 Subd. 1 Amended 1998 c 322 s 4
1996 Subd. 1 Amended 1996 c 467 s 6
1994 Subd. 1 Amended 1994 c 633 art 5 s 74
1994 Subd. 1a Amended 1994 c 633 art 5 s 75
1994 Subd. 2 Amended 1994 c 633 art 5 s 76
349.18 PREMISES USED FOR GAMBLING.
Subdivision 1.Lease or ownership required; rent limitations.
(a) An organization may conduct lawful gambling only on premises it owns or leases. Leases must be on a form prescribed by the board. The term of the lease is concurrent with the premises permit. Leases approved by the board must specify that the board may authorize an organization to withhold rent from a lessor for a period of up to 90 days if the board determines that illegal gambling occurred on the premises or that the lessor or its employees participated in the illegal gambling or knew of the gambling and did not take prompt action to stop the gambling. The lease must authorize the continued tenancy of the organization without the payment of rent during the time period determined by the board under this paragraph. Copies of all leases must be made available to employees of the board and the Division of Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement on request.
(4) total rent paid to a lessor from all organizations from leases governed by clause (1) may not exceed $1,750 per month.
Subd. 1a.Storage of gambling equipment.
(a) Gambling equipment owned by or in the possession of an organization must be kept at a permitted premises owned or leased by the organization, or at other storage sites within the state that the organization has notified the board are being used as gambling equipment storage sites. At each storage site or permitted premises, the organization must have the invoices or true and correct copies of the invoices for the purchase of all gambling equipment at the site or premises. Gambling equipment owned by an organization may not be kept at a distributor's office, warehouse, storage unit, or other place of the distributor's business.
(b) Gambling equipment, other than devices for selecting bingo numbers, owned by an organization must be secured and kept separate from gambling equipment owned by other persons, organizations, distributors, or manufacturers.
(c) Paddle wheels must be covered or disabled when not in use by the organization in the conduct of lawful gambling.
(d) Gambling equipment kept in violation of this subdivision is contraband under section 349.2125.
(e) An organization may transport gambling equipment it owns or possesses between approved gambling equipment storage sites and to and from licensed distributors, if the invoices or true and correct copies of the invoices for the organization's acquisition of the gambling equipment accompany the gambling equipment at all times and are available for inspection.
Subd. 4.Prohibition.
(a) An organization may not pay rent to itself or to any of its affiliates for use of space for conducting lawful gambling.
(b) An organization may not pay rent for space for conducting lawful gambling from any account or fund other than the organization's separate gambling account.
Subd. 5.Certain agreements prohibited.
An organization may not enter into or be a party to a lending agreement under which any of the organization's receipts from lawful gambling are pledged as collateral for a loan.
History: 1976 c 261 s 8; 1984 c 502 art 12 s 12; 1986 c 467 s 18; 1987 c 327 s 17,18; 1989 c 334 art 2 s 27,28; 1990 c 590 art 1 s 31; 1991 c 233 s 109; 1991 c 336 art 2 s 26,27; 1994 c 633 art 5 s 74-76; 1996 c 467 s 6; 1997 c 129 art 2 s 15; 1998 c 322 s 4; 2000 c 300 s 5,6; 2003 c 110 s 36; 2004 c 172 s 6,7; 2005 c 166 art 1 s 30; 2006 c 205 s 24; 2008 c 260 s 13; 2009 c 124 s 44