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                                   2294
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 16, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Racing, Gaming and  Wager-
   ing
 
 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.
   § 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:
   §  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.
                                                            LBD06301-01-5
              

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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] THEY HAVE 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 schedule of compensation prescribed by the board, janito-
 rial  services  and  utility  supplies if any, and license fees, and the
 cost of bus transportation, if authorized by such clerk  or  department.
 No  commission, salary, 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.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.