Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 7 - Municipalities › 185 - Operation of Bazaars and Raffles › Section 7-185-2b - Application for permit

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) No bazaar or
			 raffle may be promoted, operated or conducted in any municipality unless it is
			 sponsored and conducted exclusively by (1) an officially recognized
			 organization or association of veterans of any war in which the United States
			 has been engaged, (2) a church or religious organization, (3) a civic or
			 service club, (4) a fraternal or fraternal benefit society, (5) an educational
			 or charitable organization, (6) an officially recognized volunteer fire
			 company, (7) a political party or town committee thereof or (8) a municipality
			 acting through a committee designated to conduct a celebration of the
			 municipality's founding on its hundredth anniversary or any multiple thereof.
			 Any such sponsoring organization, except a committee designated pursuant to
			 subdivision (8) of section
			 7-172
			 of the general statutes, shall have been organized in good faith and actively
			 functioning as a nonprofit organization, for a period of at least six months
			 prior to its application for a permit, within the municipality that is to issue
			 the permit. Application by any such organization for a permit to conduct a
			 bazaar or raffle shall be made to the chief of police of any municipality
			 having an organized police department, or to the first selectman of any town in
			 which there is no organized police department, as the case may be, in
			 duplicate, at least ten business days in advance of the effective date of such
			 bazaar or raffle, and such chief of police or first selectman shall forward the
			 original of such application within five business days thereafter to the
			 executive director, and such application shall be signed by the three
			 designated active members under whom the bazaar or raffle described in the
			 application is to be held.
(b) A
			 sponsoring organization's own existence for at least six months in the
			 municipality in which a permit is sought shall be the determining factor in
			 regard to the issuance of a permit, notwithstanding the residence of some of
			 the organization's members.
(c) An
			 organization which has no such existence, or an existence of less than six
			 months, shall not be the recipient of a permit to conduct a bazaar or raffle in
			 such municipality, notwithstanding the status in this state of its parent
			 organization.
(d) Notwithstanding
			 the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of this section, a committee
			 designated pursuant to subdivision (8) of section
			 7-172
			 of the general statutes shall not be required to have been in existence for a
			 period of six months prior to its application for a permit.
(e) No bazaar or raffle shall be conducted
			 under conditions other than as stated in the original application unless an
			 "Application to amend" form, prescribed by the executive director, has been
			 filed with and approved by the executive director.
(f) No change or amendment shall be allowed
			 by the executive director unless the subject matter of the proposed change or
			 amendment could lawfully and properly have been included in the original
			 application and is not in conflict with the provisions of the bazaar and raffle
			 act and regulations issued pursuant thereto.
(g) No change shall be permitted by the
			 executive director in the conduct of a raffle subsequent to the sale of any
			 raffle tickets which involves a different time, date or place of the drawing
			 from that stated in the original application and on each of the raffle tickets,
			 except upon personal notice of such change by the sponsoring organization to
			 each and every purchaser of a ticket or tickets.