Bill Text: NY S05346 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows an authorized organization to receive a license to hold a game of chance on Easter Sunday and Christmas Day; eliminates time restrictions for such games held on a Sunday.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-04 - referred to racing and wagering [S05346 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S05346-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5346 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 2, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. STEC -- 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 allowing an authorized organization to receive a license to hold a game of chance on Easter Sunday and Christmas Day The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 195 of the general municipal law, as amended by 2 chapter 461 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 195. Sunday; conduct of games on. Except as provided in section one 4 hundred ninety-five-b of this article, no games of chance shall be 5 conducted under any license issued under this article on the first day 6 of the week, commonly known and designated as Sunday, unless it shall be 7 otherwise provided in the license issued for the conducting thereof, 8 pursuant to the provisions of a local law or an ordinance duly adopted 9 by the governing body of the municipality wherein the license is issued, 10 authorizing the conduct of games of chance under this article on that 11 day [only between the hours of noon and midnight. Notwithstanding the12foregoing provisions of this section no games of chance shall be13conducted on Easter Sunday or Christmas Day]. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05395-01-1