Bill Text: NY A05230 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits employees of authorized organizations to operate games of chance.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 9-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-06-08 - enacting clause stricken [A05230 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A05230-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5230
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 13, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. BLANKENBUSH, SKOUFIS, FINCH, CROUCH, HAWLEY, GRAF
         --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A. CERETTO, OAKS -- read once and
         referred to the Committee on Racing and Wagering
       AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to  employees  of
         authorized organizations operating games of chance
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivisions 10 and 11 of section 189 of the general munic-
    2  ipal law, as amended by chapter 574 of the laws of 1978, are amended  to
    3  read as follows:
    4    10.  No  person  except a bona fide member OR EMPLOYEE of the licensed
    5  authorized organization shall participate  in  the  management  of  such
    6  games;  no  person except a bona fide member OR EMPLOYEE of the licensed
    7  authorized organization, its auxiliary or affiliated organization, shall
    8  participate in the operation of such game, as set forth in  section  one
    9  hundred ninety-five-c of this article.
   10    11.  No  person  OTHER THAN AN EMPLOYEE shall receive any remuneration
   11  for participating in the management or operation of any such game.
   12    S 2. Section 195-c of the general municipal law, as amended by chapter
   13  252 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
   14    S 195-c. [1.] Persons operating games;  equipment;  expenses;  compen-
   15  sation.  1. No person shall operate any game of chance under any license
   16  issued  under  this article except a bona fide member OR EMPLOYEE of the
   17  authorized organization to which the license is issued, or a  bona  fide
   18  member  OR EMPLOYEE of an organization or association which is an auxil-
   19  iary to the licensee or a bona fide member OR EMPLOYEE of  an  organiza-
   20  tion  or  association  of  which such licensee is an auxiliary or a bona
   21  fide member OR EMPLOYEE of  an  organization  or  association  which  is
   22  affiliated  with  the  licensee  by being, with it, auxiliary to another
   23  organization or association. Nothing herein shall be construed to  limit
   24  the  number of games of chance licensees for whom such persons may oper-
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07056-01-5
       A. 5230                             2
    1  ate games of chance nor to prevent  non-members  OR  NON-EMPLOYEES  from
    2  assisting  the licensee in any activity other than managing or operating
    3  games. No game of chance shall be conducted with  any  equipment  except
    4  such  as  shall  be  owned  or  leased by the authorized organization so
    5  licensed or used without payment of any  compensation  therefor  by  the
    6  licensee.  However,  in  no  event shall bell jar tickets be transferred
    7  from one authorized organization to another, with or without payment  of
    8  any  compensation thereof. The head or heads of the authorized organiza-
    9  tion shall upon request certify, under oath, that the persons  operating
   10  any game of chance are bona fide members OR EMPLOYEES of such authorized
   11  organization,  auxiliary  or affiliated organization. Upon request by an
   12  officer or the department any such person  involved  in  such  games  of
   13  chance  shall certify that he or she has no criminal record. No items of
   14  expense shall be incurred or paid in connection with the  conducting  of
   15  any  game  of  chance  pursuant to any license issued under this article
   16  except those that are reasonable and are necessarily expended for  games
   17  of  chance  supplies  and  equipment, prizes, security personnel, stated
   18  rental if any, bookkeeping or accounting services according to a  sched-
   19  ule  of  compensation  prescribed  by the board, janitorial services and
   20  utility supplies if any, and license fees, and the cost of bus transpor-
   21  tation, if authorized by such clerk or department. No commission,  sala-
   22  ry,  compensation,  reward  or  recompense shall be paid or given to any
   23  person OTHER THAN AN EMPLOYEE for the sale or assisting with the sale of
   24  raffle tickets.
   25    2. For the purpose of the sale of tickets for the game of raffle,  the
   26  term  "operate" shall not include the sale of such tickets by persons of
   27  lineal or collateral consanguinity to members of an authorized organiza-
   28  tion licensed to conduct a raffle.
   29    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.