§ 494. Exemption from prosecution. No person or corporation lawfully
conducting, or participating in the conduct of bingo 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 bingo 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 bingo conducted
under any license known to him or it to have been obtained by any such
false pretense or statement.