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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:

  Section 1. Subdivisions 10 and 11 of section 189 of the general munic-
ipal law, as amended by chapter 574 of the laws of 1978, are amended  to
read as follows:
  10.  No  person  except a bona fide member OR EMPLOYEE of the licensed
authorized organization shall participate  in  the  management  of  such
games;  no  person except a bona fide member OR EMPLOYEE of the licensed
authorized organization, its auxiliary or affiliated organization, shall
participate in the operation of such game, as set forth in  section  one
hundred ninety-five-c of this article.
  11.  No  person  OTHER THAN AN EMPLOYEE shall receive any remuneration
for participating in the management or operation of any such game.
  S 2. Section 195-c of the general municipal law, as amended by chapter
252 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
  S 195-c. [1.] Persons operating games;  equipment;  expenses;  compen-
sation.  1. No person shall operate any game of chance under any license
issued  under  this article except a bona fide member OR EMPLOYEE of the
authorized organization to which the license is issued, or a  bona  fide
member  OR EMPLOYEE of an organization or association which is an auxil-
iary to the licensee or a bona fide member OR EMPLOYEE of  an  organiza-
tion  or  association  of  which such licensee is an auxiliary or a bona
fide member OR EMPLOYEE of  an  organization  or  association  which  is
affiliated  with  the  licensee  by being, with it, auxiliary to another
organization or association. Nothing herein shall be construed to  limit
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
              

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ate games of chance nor to prevent  non-members  OR  NON-EMPLOYEES  from
assisting  the licensee in any activity other than managing or operating
games. No game of chance shall be conducted with  any  equipment  except
such  as  shall  be  owned  or  leased by the authorized organization so
licensed or used without payment of any  compensation  therefor  by  the
licensee.  However,  in  no  event shall bell jar tickets be transferred
from one authorized organization to another, with or without payment  of
any  compensation thereof. The head or heads of the authorized organiza-
tion shall upon request certify, under oath, that the persons  operating
any game of chance are bona fide members OR EMPLOYEES of such authorized
organization,  auxiliary  or affiliated organization. Upon request by an
officer or the department any such person  involved  in  such  games  of
chance  shall certify that he or she has no criminal record. No items of
expense shall be incurred or paid in connection with the  conducting  of
any  game  of  chance  pursuant to any license issued under this article
except those that are reasonable and are necessarily expended for  games
of  chance  supplies  and  equipment, prizes, security personnel, stated
rental if any, bookkeeping or accounting services according to a  sched-
ule  of  compensation  prescribed  by the board, janitorial services and
utility supplies if any, and license fees, and the cost of bus transpor-
tation, if authorized by such clerk or department. No commission,  sala-
ry,  compensation,  reward  or  recompense shall be paid or given to any
person OTHER THAN AN EMPLOYEE for the sale or assisting with the sale of
raffle tickets.
  2. For the purpose of the sale of tickets for the game of raffle,  the
term  "operate" shall not include the sale of such tickets by persons of
lineal or collateral consanguinity to members of an authorized organiza-
tion licensed to conduct a raffle.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.