Bill Text: NY A04901 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows an authorized organization to receive a license to hold a game of chance on Easter Sunday and Christmas Day; eliminates time restrictions for such games held on a Sunday.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-08 - enacting clause stricken [A04901 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04901-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4901

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 24, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. JONES, COOK, RIVERA, MIKULIN -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of A.  EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee  on
          Racing and Wagering

        AN  ACT  to  amend the general municipal law, in relation to allowing an
          authorized organization to receive a license to hold a game of  chance
          on Easter Sunday and Christmas Day

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 195 of the general municipal  law,  as  amended  by
     2  chapter 461 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  195. Sunday; conduct of games on. Except as provided in section one
     4  hundred ninety-five-b of this article,  no  games  of  chance  shall  be
     5  conducted  under  any license issued under this article on the first day
     6  of the week, commonly known and designated as Sunday, unless it shall be
     7  otherwise provided in the license issued  for  the  conducting  thereof,
     8  pursuant  to  the provisions of a local law or an ordinance duly adopted
     9  by the governing body of the municipality wherein the license is issued,
    10  authorizing the conduct of games of chance under this  article  on  that
    11  day  [only  between  the hours of noon and midnight. Notwithstanding the
    12  foregoing provisions of  this  section  no  games  of  chance  shall  be
    13  conducted on Easter Sunday or Christmas Day].
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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