Bill Text: NY A04605 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to allowing alcoholic beverages as prizes in any game of chance.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to racing and wagering [A04605 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04605-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4605
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 4, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Racing and Wagering
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to allowing alco-
          holic beverages as prizes in any game of chance
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 195-d of the general municipal law, as amended by
     2  section 13 of part MM of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017,  subdivision  3
     3  as  amended  by  chapter  464 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as
     4  follows:
     5    § 195-d. Charge for admission and  participation;  amount  of  prizes;
     6  award  of  prizes. 1. A fee may be charged by any licensee for admission
     7  to any game or games of chance conducted under any license issued  under
     8  this  article. The clerk or department may in its discretion fix a mini-
     9  mum fee.
    10    2. With the exception of bell jars, coin boards, seal cards,  merchan-
    11  dise  boards  and  raffles,  every  winner shall be determined and every
    12  prize shall be awarded and delivered within the  same  calendar  day  as
    13  that  upon  which  the  game was played. [No alcoholic beverage shall be
    14  offered or given as a prize in any game of chance.]
    15    3. A player may purchase a chance with  cash  or,  if  the  authorized
    16  organization wishes, with a personal check, credit card or debit card.
    17    §  2.  Subdivision 3 of section 190-a of the general municipal law, as
    18  added by chapter 400 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
    19    3. No person under the age of eighteen shall  be  permitted  to  play,
    20  operate  or  assist  in  any  raffle conducted pursuant to this section.
    21  Where any such raffle awards a prize containing alcohol, no person under
    22  the age of twenty-one shall be permitted to play, operate or  assist  in
    23  such raffle conducted pursuant to this section.
    24    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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