Bill Text: NY S04594 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4594 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the premises on which games of chance may be conducted; establishes that games of chance are not prohibited from being conducted on state-owned property.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO RACING, GAMING AND WAGERING [S04594 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04594-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4594
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 21, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  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 the premises
          on which games of chance may be conducted
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 13 of section 189 of the general municipal law,
     2  as  amended  by  chapter  252 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    13. No game of chance shall be conducted on other than the premises of
     5  an authorized organization or an  authorized  games  of  chance  lessor;
     6  provided,  however, nothing in this subdivision shall prohibit a game of
     7  chance from being conducted on state-owned  property.    Nothing  herein
     8  shall  prohibit  the  sale  of  raffle tickets to the public outside the
     9  premises of an authorized organization or an authorized games of  chance
    10  lessor; or in municipalities which have passed a local law, ordinance or
    11  resolution  in accordance with sections one hundred eighty-seven and one
    12  hundred eighty-eight of this article approving the conduct of  games  of
    13  chance  that are located in the county in which the municipality issuing
    14  the license is located and in the counties which are contiguous  to  the
    15  county  in which the municipality issuing the raffle license is located,
    16  provided those municipalities have authorized the licensee, in  writing,
    17  to  sell such raffle tickets therein and provided, however, that no sale
    18  of raffle tickets shall be made more than one hundred eighty days  prior
    19  to  the  date  scheduled  for  the  occasion at which the raffle will be
    20  conducted. The winner of any single prize  in  a  raffle  shall  not  be
    21  required to be present at the time such raffle is conducted.
    22    § 2. 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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