2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 9-A - Local Option for Conduct of Games of Chance by Certain Organizations › 190 - Application for License.

§  190.  Application  for  license. 1. To conduct games of chance. (a)
Each applicant for a license shall, after  obtaining  an  identification
number  from  the  board,  file  with the clerk or department, a written
application therefor in a form to  be  prescribed  by  the  board,  duly
executed and verified, in which shall be stated:
(1)  the  name  and  address of the applicant together with sufficient
facts relating to its incorporation  and  organization  to  enable  such
clerk  or department, as the case may be, to determine whether or not it
is a bona fide authorized organization;
(2) the names and addresses of  its  officers;  the  place  or  places
where,  the  date  or  dates  and  the  time or times when the applicant
intends to conduct games under the license applied for;
(3) the amount of rent to be paid or other consideration to  be  given
directly  or indirectly for each licensed period for use of the premises
of an authorized games of chance lessor;
(4) all other items of expense intended to  be  incurred  or  paid  in
connection  with  the holding, operating and conducting of such games of
chance and the names and addresses of  the  persons  to  whom,  and  the
purposes for which, they are to be paid;
(5) the purposes to which the entire net proceeds of such games are to
be devoted and in what manner; that no commission, salary, compensation,
reward or recompense will be paid to any person for conducting such game
or  games  or  for assisting therein except as in this article otherwise
provided; and such other information as  shall  be  prescribed  by  such
rules and regulations.
(6)  the  name  of  each single type of game of chance to be conducted
under the license applied for and the number of merchandise  wheels  and
raffles, if any, to be operated.
(b)  In  each application there shall be designated not less than four
bona fide members of the applicant organization under whom the  game  or
games of chance will be managed and to the application shall be appended
a  statement  executed  by  the members so designated, that they will be
responsible for the management of such  games  in  accordance  with  the
terms  of  the  license,  the  rules  and regulations of the board, this
article and the applicable local laws or ordinances.
2. Authorized games of chance lessor: Each applicant for a license  to
lease premises to a licensed organization for the purposes of conducting
games  of  chance  therein  shall  file  with the clerk or department, a
written application therefor in a form to be  prescribed  by  the  board
duly  executed  and verified, which shall set forth the name and address
of the applicant; designation and address of the premises intended to be
covered by the license sought; a statement that  the  applicant  in  all
respects conforms with the specifications contained in the definition of
"authorized organization" set forth in section one hundred eighty-six of
this  article;  a  statement  of  the  lawful  purposes to which the net
proceeds from any rental are to be devoted by the  applicant,  and  such
other information as shall be prescribed by the board.
3.  In  counties  outside  the  city  of New York, municipalities may,
pursuant to section one hundred eighty-eight of this article,  adopt  an
ordinance  providing  that an authorized organization having obtained an
identification number from the board and having applied for no more than
one license to conduct games of chance during the period not  less  than
twelve nor more than eighteen months immediately preceding may file with
the clerk or department a summary application in a form to be prescribed
by  the  board  duly  executed  and  verified,  containing the names and
addresses of the applicant organization and its officers, the date, time
and place or places where the applicant intends to conduct  games  under
the  license  applied for, the purposes to which the entire net proceeds

of such games are to  be  devoted  and  the  information  and  statement
required  by paragraph (b) of subdivision one of this section in lieu of
the application required under subdivision one of this section.
4. Notwithstanding and in lieu of the licensing requirements set forth
in  this article, an authorized organization defined in subdivision four
of section one hundred eighty-six of this article may  file  a  verified
statement,  for  which  no  fee  shall  be  required,  with the clerk or
department and the board attesting that such organization  shall  derive
net  proceeds  or net profits from raffles in an amount less than thirty
thousand dollars during one occasion or part thereof  at  which  raffles
are  to  be  conducted.  Such  statement  shall be on a single page form
prescribed by the board  and  shall  be  deemed  a  license  to  conduct
raffles:  (a)  under  this article; and (b) within the municipalities in
which the authorized organization are  domiciled  which  have  passed  a
local  law,  ordinance  or  resolution  in  accordance with sections one
hundred eighty-seven  and  one  hundred  eighty-eight  of  this  article
approving  the  conduct  of games of chance, and in municipalities which
have passed a local law, ordinance  or  resolution  in  accordance  with
sections  one  hundred eighty-seven and one hundred eighty-eight of this
article approving the conduct of games of chance that are located in the
county in which the municipality issuing the license is located  and  in
the   counties   which  are  contiguous  to  the  county  in  which  the
municipality issuing the  raffle  license  is  located,  provided  those
municipalities  have  authorized  the licensee, in writing, to sell such
raffle tickets therein.  An  organization  that  has  filed  a  verified
statement with the clerk or department and the board attesting that such
organization shall derive net proceeds or net profits from raffles in an
amount  less  than  thirty  thousand dollars during one occasion or part
thereof that in fact derives  net  proceeds  or  net  profits  exceeding
thirty thousand dollars during any one occasion or part thereof shall be
required  to  obtain  a license as required by this article and shall be
subject to the provisions of section one hundred ninety-five-f  of  this
article.