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NY Gen Mun L § 195-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations 195-C - Persons Operating Games; Equipment; Expenses; Compensation.

§   195-c.   1.   Persons   operating   games;   equipment;  expenses;   compensation.  No person shall operate any  game  of  chance  under  any   license  issued  under  this  article  except  a bona fide member of the   authorized organization to which the license is issued, or a  bona  fide   member  of  an  organization or association which is an auxiliary to the   licensee or a bona fide member of  an  organization  or  association  of   which  such  licensee  is  an  auxiliary  or  a  bona  fide member of an   organization or association which is affiliated  with  the  licensee  by   being,  with  it,  auxiliary  to  another  organization  or association.   Nothing herein shall be construed to limit the number of games of chance   licensees for whom such persons may  operate  games  of  chance  nor  to   prevent  non-members  from  assisting the licensee in any activity other   than managing or operating games. No game of chance shall  be  conducted   with  any  equipment  except  such  as  shall  be owned or leased by the   authorized organization so licensed  or  used  without  payment  of  any   compensation  therefor  by the licensee. However, in no event shall bell   jar tickets be transferred from one authorized organization to  another,   with  or  without payment of any compensation thereof. The head or heads   of the authorized organization shall upon request certify,  under  oath,   that  the  persons operating any game of chance are bona fide members of   such authorized organization, auxiliary or affiliated organization. Upon   request by an officer or the department any such person involved in such   games of chance shall certify that he or she has no criminal record.  No   items  of  expense  shall  be  incurred  or  paid in connection with the   conducting of any game of chance pursuant to any  license  issued  under   this  article  except  those  that  are  reasonable  and are necessarily   expended for games of chance supplies and  equipment,  prizes,  security   personnel,  stated  rental  if  any,  bookkeeping or accounting services   according to  a  schedule  of  compensation  prescribed  by  the  board,   janitorial  services  and utility supplies if any, and license fees, and   the  cost  of  bus  transportation,  if  authorized  by  such  clerk  or   department.  No  commission,  salary, compensation, reward or recompense   shall be paid or given to any person for the sale or assisting with  the   sale of raffle tickets.2.  For the purpose of the sale of tickets for the game of raffle, the   term "operate" shall not include the sale of such tickets by persons  of   lineal   or   collateral  consanguinity  to  members  of  an  authorized   organization licensed to conduct a raffle.
NY Gen Mun L § 195-D (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations 195-D - Charge for Admission and Participation; Amount of Prizes; Award of Prizes.

§  195-d.  Charge  for  admission and participation; amount of prizes;   award of prizes. 1. A fee may be charged by any licensee  for  admission   to  any game or games of chance conducted under any license issued under   this article. The clerk or  department  may  in  its  discretion  fix  a   minimum fee.2.  With  the  exception  of  bell  jars,  coin  boards,  seal  cards,   merchandise boards and raffles, every winner  shall  be  determined  and   every  prize shall be awarded and delivered within the same calendar day   as that upon which the game was played. No alcoholic beverage  shall  be   offered or given as a prize in any game of chance.3.  A  player  may  purchase  a chance with cash or, if the authorized   organization wishes, with a personal check, credit card or debit card.
NY Gen Mun L § 195-E (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations 195-E - Advertising Games.

§  195-e.  Advertising  games. A licensee may advertise the conduct of   games of chance to the general public by means of  newspaper,  circular,   handbill  and poster, and 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 licensed authorized organization, through the internet or   television as may be regulated by  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the   commission.  When  an  organization is licensed or authorized to conduct   games of chance on the premises of an authorized games of chance lessor,   one additional such sign may be displayed on or adjacent to the premises   in which the  games  are  to  be  conducted.  Additional  signs  may  be   displayed  upon any firefighting or ambulance equipment belonging to any   licensed authorized organization  that  is  a  volunteer  fire  company,   volunteer ambulance corps or upon any equipment of a first aid or rescue   squad  in  and  throughout  the  community served by such volunteer fire   company, volunteer ambulance corps or such first aid or rescue squad, as   the case may be. All advertisements shall be limited to the  description   of such event as "Games of chance" or "Las Vegas Night", the name of the   authorized organization conducting such games, the license number of the   authorized  organization  as  assigned  by  the clerk or department, the   prizes offered and the date, location and time of the event.
NY Gen Mun L § 195-G (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations 195-G - Examination of Books and Records; Examination of Officers and Employees; Disclosure of Information.

§ 195-g. Examination of books and records; examination of officers and   employees;  disclosure  of  information. The clerk or department and the   board 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 games of chance, so far as they may relate to  games  of  chance   including  the  maintenance,  control  and  disposition  of net proceeds   derived from games of chance or from the use of its premises  for  games   of  chance, and to examine any manager, officer, director, agent, member   or employee thereof under oath in relation to the conduct  of  any  such   game  under  any  such  license,  the  use  of its premises for games of   chance, or the disposition of net proceeds derived from games of chance,   as the case may be.2. Any authorized games of chance lessor so far as they may relate  to   leasing  premises  for games of chance and to examine said lessor or any   manager, officer, director, agent or  employee  thereof  under  oath  in   relation to such leasing.Any  information  so  received shall not be disclosed except so far as   may be necessary for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of  this   article.
NY Gen Mun L § 195-H (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations 195-H - Appeals From the Decision of an Officer, Clerk or Department to Board.

§  195-h. Appeals from the decision of an officer, clerk or department   to board. Any applicant for, or holder of, any license issued or  to  be   issued  under  this article aggrieved by any action of an officer, clerk   or department, to which such application has been made or by which  such   license  has been issued, may appeal to the board from the determination   of said officer, clerk, or  department  by  filing  with  such  officer,   clerk, or department a written notice of appeal within thirty days after   the  determination or action appealed from, and upon the hearing of such   appeal, the evidence, if any,  taken  before  such  officer,  clerk,  or   department  and  any  additional  evidence  may be produced and shall be   considered in arriving at a determination of the matters in  issue,  and   the  action  of  the  board  upon said appeal shall be binding upon such   officer, clerk, or department and all parties to said appeal.
NY Gen Mun L § 195-I (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations 195-I - Exemption From Prosecution.

§  195-i.  Exemption  from  prosecution. No person, firm, partnership,   corporation or organization lawfully conducting, or participating in the   conduct of games of chance 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 two hundred twenty-five of the   penal law or any other law or ordinance to the extent that such  conduct   is  specifically authorized by this article, but this immunity shall not   extend  to  any  person   or   corporation   knowingly   conducting   or   participating  in  the  conduct  of  games  of  chance under any license   obtained by any false pretense or by any false  statement  made  in  any   application for license or otherwise, or permitting the conduct upon any   premises  owned  or  leased by him or it of any game of chance conducted   under any license known to him or it to have been obtained by  any  such   false pretense or statement.
NY Gen Mun L § 195-J (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations 195-J - Offenses; Forfeiture of License; Ineligibility to Apply for License.

§  195-j.  Offenses; forfeiture of license; ineligibility to apply for license.  Any person, firm, partnership, corporation or organization who or which shall:  (1) make any material false  statement  in  any  application  for  any license authorized to be issued under this article;  (2)  pay  or receive, for the use of any premises for conducting games of chance, a rental in excess of the amount specified as the permissible rent in the license provided for  in  subdivision  two  of  section  one hundred ninety-three of this article;  (3)  fail  to  keep  such  books  and records as shall fully and truly record all transactions connected with the conducting of games of chance or the leasing of premises to be  used  for  the  conduct  of  games  of chance;  (4)  falsify or make any false entry in any books or records so far as they relate in any manner to the conduct of  games  of  chance,  to  the disposition  of the proceeds thereof and to the application of the rents received by any authorized organization;  (5) divert or pay any portion of the  net  proceeds  of  any  game  of chance   to  any  person,  firm,  partnership,  corporation,  except  in furtherance of one or more  of  the  lawful  purposes  defined  in  this article;   shall  be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall forfeit any license issued under this article and be ineligible to apply for a license  under  this article for at least one year thereafter.
NY Gen Mun L § 195-K (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations 195-K - Unlawful Games of Chance.

§  195-k.  Unlawful  games  of  chance.  1.  Any  person, association, corporation or organization holding, operating, or conducting a game  or games  of  chance  is  guilty  of  a misdemeanor, except when operating, holding or conducting:  (a) In accordance  with  a  valid  license  issued  pursuant  to  this article;  (b)  On  behalf  of a bona fide organization of persons sixty years of age or over, commonly referred to as senior  citizens,  solely  for  the purpose  of  amusement  and  recreation  of  its  members  where (i) the organization has applied for and received an identification number  from the  board,  (ii)  no player or other person furnishes anything of value for the opportunity to participate, (iii) the prizes awarded  or  to  be awarded are nominal, (iv) no person other than a bona fide active member of the organization participates in the conduct of the games, and (v) no person is paid for conducting or assisting in the conduct of the game or games; or  (c) A raffle pursuant to section one hundred ninety-a of this article.   2.  The  provisions  of this section shall apply to all municipalities within this state, including those municipalities where this article  is inoperative.
NY Gen Mun L § 195-L (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations 195-L - Article Inoperative Until Adopted by Voters.

§  195-l.  Article  inoperative  until  adopted  by  voters. Except as   provided in section one  hundred  ninety-five-k  of  this  article,  the   provisions  of this article shall remain inoperative in any municipality   unless and until a  proposition  therefor  submitted  at  a  general  or   special election in such municipality shall be approved by a vote of the   majority of the qualified electors in such municipality voting thereon.
NY Gen Mun L § 195-M (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations 195-M - Amendment and Repeal of Local Laws and Ordinances.

§  195-m.  Amendment and repeal of local laws and ordinances. Any such   local law or ordinance may be amended, from time to time, or repealed by   the common council or other local legislative body of  the  municipality   which  enacted it by a two-thirds vote of such legislative body and such   amendment or repeal, as the case may  be,  may  be  made  effective  and   operative  not  earlier than thirty days following the date of enactment   of the local law or ordinance effecting such amendment or repeal, as the   case may be; and the approval of a majority  of  the  electors  of  such   municipality  shall not be a condition prerequisite to the taking effect   of such local law or ordinance.
NY Gen Mun L § 195-P (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations 195-P - Transfer Restrictions.

§   195-p.    Transfer  restrictions.  Not-for-profit,  charitable  or   religious  organizations  authorized  to  sell  bell  jar   tickets   in   accordance  with  this article shall purchase bell jar tickets only from   distributors licensed by the board.  No not-for-profit,  charitable,  or   religious  organization  shall  sell, donate, or otherwise transfer bell   jar  tickets  to  any  other  not-for-profit,  charitable  or  religious   organization.
NY Gen Mun L § 195-R (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations 195-R - Severability.

§  195-r.    Severability.    If  any provision of this article or the   application thereof to any municipality, person or  circumstances  shall   be adjudged unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, the   remainder   of   this  article  or  the  application  thereof  to  other   municipalities, persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby,   and the legislature hereby declares that  it  would  have  enacted  this   article  without  the  invalid provision or application, as the case may   be, had such invalidity been apparent.
NY Gen Mun L § 200-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers 200-A - Volunteer Firefighters Serving in More Than One Fire Company or Fire Department.

§  200-a. Volunteer firefighters serving in more than one fire company   or  fire  department.  When  any  person  has  served  as  a   volunteer   firefighter as provided in section two hundred of this article, for less   than five years, and while in good standing in the company or department   of  which  he  or  she  was a member, has resigned therefrom or has been   transferred from one company to another, he or she shall be entitled  to   a certificate as provided in section two hundred two of this article for   the  time  he or she has actually served. And when any person has served   five years as a volunteer  firefighter  in  one  or  more  companies  or   departments,  as  provided in section two hundred of this article, he or   she shall be deemed an exempt volunteer firefighter and entitled to  all   the rights and privileges of an exempt volunteer firefighter.
NY Gen Mun L § 201 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers 201 - Rights and Privileges of Exempt Volunteer Firefighters.

§ 201. Rights and privileges of exempt volunteer firefighters. In case   any  city,  town  or  village  in  this state shall organize a paid fire   department  and  thereby  deprive  any  volunteer  firefighter  who  has   faithfully  actually  performed  service  in  the protection of life and   property within the territory protected by his or  her  company  of  the   right  to  serve  a  full  term  of five years such firefighter shall be   entitled to a full and honorable discharge; and to all  the  rights  and   privileges  granted  by the laws of this state to volunteer firefighter,   provided, however, that if such paid department has been organized since   the first day of January in the year nineteen hundred and two, he or she   shall have so served for a consecutive  period  of  at  least  one  year   immediately preceding the installation of said paid fire department.
NY Gen Mun L § 202 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers 202 - Certificate to Be Issued to Exempt Volunteer Firefighter.

§  202.  Certificate to be issued to exempt volunteer firefighter. Any   person described in sections two hundred or  two  hundred  one  of  this   article  shall be entitled to a certificate from the company in which he   or she served or of which he or she was a member  at  the  time  of  its   disbandment   which  shall  show  the  date  of  the  entrance  of  such   firefighter upon his or her service, the period of his or  her  service;   if  he or she was honorably discharged from such company the certificate   shall so state; that he or she was  in  good  standing  in  his  or  her   company  at  the time of applying for such certificate or at the time he   or she was discharged therefrom; or that he or she was in good  standing   in  his  or  her  company  at  the time of the disbandment thereof. Such   certificate shall be  signed  by  the  president,  captain,  foreman  or   secretary  of  the  company  and  shall be acknowledged by such officers   before an officer commissioned to take acknowledgments, and  shall  also   have  attached  thereto  a  certificate attested by the affidavit of the   secretary, clerk or other person having the  custody  of  the  company's   record  of  membership,  that  the  statements of fact contained in said   certificate are true, and the  affidavit  and  acknowledgment  shall  be   substantially in the following form:    State of New York         )) ss.   County of ............    ) On  this  ............  day of ........... , in the year ........... ,   before me personally came ......................... , to me known and by   me known to be the same  persons  described  in  and  who  executed  the   foregoing  certificate  and  they severally duly acknowledged to me that   they executed the same and the said .............................. being   by me duly sworn, deposes and says, that he/she is .................  of   the  company  aforesaid  and  is  the  custodian  of  the records of its   membership and that the facts above stated relating to  the  service  of   the person described in such certificate are true. ...................................Notary Public Such  certificate  so attested shall in all courts of the state and in   the offices of all persons clothed with power of appointment or  removal   in  the service of this state and in the several cities, counties, towns   and villages thereof, be  presumptive  evidence  of  the  facts  therein   stated.
NY Gen Mun L § 202-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers 202-A - Recording Certificates of Exempt Volunteer Firefighter.

§  202-a.  Recording  certificates  of exempt volunteer firefighter. A   certificate of honorable discharge of an exempt  volunteer  firefighter,   or  a  certificate  issued  to an exempt volunteer firefighter under the   provisions of section two hundred two of this article, may  be  recorded   in  any  county, in the office of the county clerk, and when so recorded   shall constitute notice to all public officials of the facts  set  forth   therein.  It  shall  be  the duty of the county clerk to record any such   certificate, upon presentation thereof without the payment of  any  fee.   This  section  also applies to the counties within the city of New York.   For any purpose for which such  original  honorable  discharge  or  such   exempt  volunteer firefighter's certificate may be required in the state   of New York, a certified copy of such record shall be deemed  sufficient   and  shall  be  accepted  in  lieu  thereof. It shall be the duty of the   county clerks of the counties within the  city  of  New  York  upon  the   payment of one dollar, to furnish a certified copy of any such record of   such  an  exempt  volunteer  firefighter's  certificate  to  any  person   applying for the same.
NY Gen Mun L § 203 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers 203 - List of Exempt Volunteer Firefighters to Be Filed.

§ 203. List of exempt volunteer firefighters to be filed. In case of a   company  disbanded  by  the  organization  of  a paid department in lieu   thereof, the officers of every volunteer fire, engine, hose and hook and   ladder company shall within ninety days  after  such  company  has  been   disbanded  file  in  the office of the clerk of the county in which said   company was located a list containing the name of every person who was a   member of such volunteer company and who is entitled  to  the  exemption   certificate in accordance with the provisions of this article. Upon such   list  being  filed  the county clerk of the county in which such company   operated shall sign and deliver the exemption certificate  provided  for   in  this  article to the person entitled thereto whose name appears upon   the list filed with him as aforesaid, but the same shall,  nevertheless,   be attested by the secretary or clerk or other person having the custody   of  the  membership  records  of the disbanded company and in the manner   specified in this article.
NY Gen Mun L § 204 (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers 204 - Qualifications Necessary to Entitle to Certain Exemptions.

§  204.  Qualifications necessary to entitle to certain exemptions. No   person who became a member of a volunteer fire organization  within  the   state  since  the  first day of January nineteen hundred and two, or who   shall have thereafter become such  member  who  shall  not  possess  the   qualifications  prescribed  by  this article shall be entitled to any of   the exemptions and privileges secured to volunteer firefighters  by  the   civil service law of this state.
NY Gen Mun L § 204-C (2021)
2021 New York Laws GMU - General Municipal Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers 204-C - Plan for Arson Investigation.

§  204-c.  Plan  for  arson  investigation. The governing body of each   county except a county contained wholly within a city, and the governing   body of any city in which a county is wholly contained shall  develop  a   plan for arson investigation within such county or city. Such plan shall   be  submitted to the office of fire prevention and control for approval.   No plan shall be approved unless it provides  for  the  coordination  of   fire, law enforcement and prosecutorial services.