§ 195-i. Exemption from prosecution. No person, firm, partnership,
corporation or organization lawfully conducting, or participating in the
conduct of games of chance or permitting the conduct upon any premises
owned or leased by him or it under any license lawfully issued pursuant
to this article, shall be liable to prosecution or conviction for
violation of any provision of article two hundred twenty-five of the
penal law or any other law or ordinance to the extent that such conduct
is specifically authorized by this article, but this immunity shall not
extend to any person or corporation knowingly conducting or
participating in the conduct of games of chance under any license
obtained by any false pretense or by any false statement made in any
application for license or otherwise, or permitting the conduct upon any
premises owned or leased by him or it of any game of chance conducted
under any license known to him or it to have been obtained by any such
false pretense or statement.