[HISTORY: Adopted Malone Village Board 2-10-1958. Referendum held approving 3-18-1958. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Amended 7-22-1963]
The purpose of this ordinance is to amend an ordinance adopted
by the Village of Malone, New York, on March 18, 1958, authorizing
the conduct of bingo in such village to change the reference in such
ordinance from Article 14-G of the General Municipal Law to Article
14-H of the General Municipal Law, as so renumbered by Chapter 438
of the Laws of 1962, and to set forth therein the following additional
amended and renumbered restrictions concerning the conduct of the
game of bingo by an authorized organization in such village, as required
by Section 479 of the General Municipal Law of the State of New York,
as amended by Chapter 438 of the Laws of 1962:
A.
No person, firm, association, corporation or organization, other
than a licensee under the provisions of Article 14-H of the General
Municipal Law, shall conduct such game or shall lease or otherwise
make available for conducting bingo a hall or other premises for any
consideration whatsoever, direct or indirect.
B.
No bingo games shall be held, operated or conducted on or within
any leased premises if rental under such lease is to be paid, wholly
or partly, on the basis of a percentage of the receipts or net profits
derived from the operation of such game.
C.
No authorized organization licensed under the provisions of Article
14-H of the General Municipal Law shall purchase or receive any supplies
or equipment specifically designed or adapted for use in the conduct
of bingo games from other than a supplier licensed under the Bingo
Control Law or from another authorized organization.
D.
The entire net proceeds of any game of bingo and of any rental shall
be exclusively devoted to the lawful purposes of the organization
permitted to conduct the same.
E.
No prize shall exceed the sum or value of $250 in any single game
of bingo.
F.
No series of prizes on any one bingo occasion shall aggregate more
than $1,000.
G.
No person except a bona fide member of any such organization shall
participate in the management or operation of such game.
H.
No person shall receive any remuneration for participating in the
management or operation of any game of bingo.
I.
The unauthorized conduct of a bingo game and any willful violation
of any provision of this ordinance shall constitute and be punishable
as an offense.
Pursuant to Section 438 of Article 14-H of the General Municipal
Law, the Chief of Police of the Village of Malone is hereby designated
and delegated to exercise the authority granted to the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Malone in relation to the issuance, amendment and
cancellation of licenses, the conduct of investigations and hearings,
the supervision of the operation of the games and the collection and
transmission of fees.
The provisions of this ordinance shall remain inoperative
unless and until a proposition therefor, submitted at a general or
special election in the Village of Malone, shall be approved by a
majority vote of the qualified electors in the Village of Malone voting
thereon.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: Referendum held approving 3-18-1958.
[Added 1-11-1971]
Bingo games may be conducted on the first day of the week, commonly
known and designated as Sunday, under any license issued for the holding,
operating and conducting thereof pursuant to the provisions of this
ordinance.
