2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 14-H - Local Option for Conduct of Bingo by Certain Organizations › 480 - Application for License.

§  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 executed and verified, in which such applicant shall state:
(1) the name and address of the  applicant  together  with  sufficient
facts  relating  to  such  applicant's incorporation and organization to
enable the governing body of the municipality to  determine  whether  or
not the applicant is a bona fide authorized organization;
(2)  the names and addresses of the applicant's officers; the place or
places where, and the date or dates and the  time  or  times  when,  the
applicant intends to conduct bingo under the license applied for;
(3)  in  case the applicant intends to lease premises for this purpose
from other than an authorized organization, the name and address of  the
licensed  commercial  lessor  of  such  premises,  and  the  capacity or
potential capacity for public assembly purposes of space in any premises
presently owned or occupied by the applicant;
(4) the amount of rent to be paid or other consideration to  be  given
directly  or  indirectly  for  each  occasion for use of the premises of
another authorized organization licensed under this article  to  conduct
bingo or for use of the premises of a licensed commercial lessor;
(5)  all  other  items  of  expense intended to be incurred or paid in
connection with the holding, operating and conducting of such  games  of
bingo  and  the  names  and  addresses  of  the persons to whom, and the
purposes for which, they are to be paid;
(6) the specific purposes to which the entire  net  proceeds  of  such
games of bingo 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 bingo game or games or for assisting therein  except
as  in  this  article  otherwise provided; and such other information as
shall be prescribed by the rules and regulations of the commission.
(b) In each application there shall be designated an active member  or
members  of  the  applicant organization under whom the game or games of
bingo will be conducted and to  the  application  shall  be  appended  a
statement  executed by the member or members so designated, that he, she
or they will be responsible for the  conduct  of  such  bingo  games  in
accordance  with  the terms of the license, the rules and regulations of
the commission and this article.
2. Commercial lessor. (a)  Each  applicant  for  a  license  to  lease
premises to a licensed organization for the purposes of conducting bingo
therein  shall  file  with  the clerk of the municipality an application
therefor in a form prescribed  in  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the
control commission 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;  lawful  capacity
for  public  assembly  purposes; cost of premises and assessed valuation
for real estate tax purposes, or annual net  lease  rent,  whichever  is
applicable;  gross  rentals  received  and  itemized  expenses  for  the
immediately preceding calendar or fiscal year, if any; gross rentals, if
any, derived from bingo during the last  preceding  calendar  or  fiscal
year;  computation  by  which  proposed  rental schedule was determined;
number of occasions on which applicant anticipates  receiving  rent  for
bingo  during the ensuing year or shorter period if applicable; proposed
rent for each such occasion; estimated  gross  rental  income  from  all
other  sources  during the ensuing year; estimated expenses itemized for
ensuing year and amount of each  item  allocated  to  bingo  rentals;  a
statement   that  the  applicant  in  all  respects  conforms  with  the

specifications contained in the  definition  of  "authorized  commercial
lessor"  set  forth in section four hundred seventy-six of this article,
and such other information as shall  be  prescribed  by  the  rules  and
regulations of the commission.
(b)  At  the  end of the license period, a recapitulation, in a manner
prescribed in the rules and regulations of the commission, shall be made
as between the licensee and the municipal governing body in  respect  of
the gross rental actually received during the license period and the fee
paid  therefor.  The  licensee  shall  pay any deficiency of fee thereby
shown to be due and any excess of fee thereby shown to  have  been  paid
shall  be credited to such licensee, in such manner as the commission by
rules and regulations shall prescribe.