Assembly Bill A10273

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  10273

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 20, 2016
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Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SCHIMMINGER -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Racing and Wagering

AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to increasing the
  maximum for raffle prizes to five hundred thousand dollars and  allow-
  ing organizations to raffle real property as a prize

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivisions 11 and 12 of section 186 of the general munic-
ipal law, subdivision 11 as amended by chapter 337 of the laws of  1998,
and  subdivision  12  as amended by chapter 252 of the laws of 1998, are
amended to read as follows:
  11. "Single prize" shall mean the sum of money or fair market value of
merchandise, PERSONAL PROPERTY, REAL PROPERTY, or  coins  awarded  to  a
participant  by  a  games  of  chance licensee in any one operation of a
single type of game of chance in excess of his OR HER wager.
  12. "Series of prizes" shall mean the total amount  of  single  prizes
minus  the  total amount of wagers lost during the successive operations
of a single type of game of chance, except that for  merchandise  wheels
and  raffles, "series of prizes" shall mean the sum of cash and the fair
market value of merchandise, PERSONAL PROPERTY, REAL PROPERTY, OR  COINS
awarded  as single prizes during the successive operations of any single
merchandise wheel or raffle. In the game of raffle, a series  of  prizes
may  include  a  percentage of the sum of cash received from the sale of
raffle tickets.
  S 2. Subdivisions 5 and 13 of section 189  of  the  general  municipal
law,  subdivision  5  as  amended by chapter 455 of the laws of 2012 and
subdivision 13 as amended by chapter  252  of  the  laws  of  1998,  are
amended to read as follows:
  5.  No single prize awarded by games of chance other than raffle shall
exceed the sum or value  of  three  hundred  dollars,  except  that  for
merchandise wheels, no single prize shall exceed the sum or value of two
hundred  fifty  dollars.  No single prize awarded by raffle shall exceed
the sum or value of one hundred thousand dollars, EXCEPT THAT AN AUTHOR-
IZED ORGANIZATION OR A NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION AS DEFINED BY SUBPARA-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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GRAPH  TEN  OF  PARAGRAPH  (A)  OF  SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED  TWO  OF   THE
NOT-FOR-PROFIT  CORPORATION  LAW  MAY  AWARD BY RAFFLE ONCE PER CALENDAR
YEAR A SINGLE PRIZE HAVING A VALUE OF UP TO AND INCLUDING  FIVE  HUNDRED
THOUSAND  DOLLARS  IF  ITS  APPLICATION  FOR A LICENSE FILED PURSUANT TO
SECTION ONE HUNDRED NINETY OF THIS ARTICLE INCLUDES A STATEMENT  OF  ITS
INTENT  TO AWARD A PRIZE HAVING SUCH VALUE. No single wager shall exceed
six dollars and for bell jars, coin boards, or  merchandise  boards,  no
single  prize  shall exceed five hundred dollars provided, however, that
such limitation shall not apply to the amount of money or value paid  by
the participant in a raffle in return for a ticket or other receipt. For
coin boards and merchandise boards, the value of a prize shall be deter-
mined  by  its  costs  to  the authorized organization OR NOT-FOR-PROFIT
CORPORATION or, if donated, its fair market value.
  13. No game of chance shall be conducted on other than the premises of
an authorized organization OR NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION, EXCEPT IF  THE
PRIZE  IS  REAL  ESTATE,  THEN AT THE LOCATION OF THE REAL ESTATE, or an
authorized games of chance lessor.   Nothing herein shall  prohibit  the
sale  of raffle tickets to the public outside the premises of an author-
ized organization OR NOT-FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION or an  authorized  games
of  chance  lessor;  or in municipalities which have passed a local law,
ordinance or resolution in accordance with sections one hundred  eighty-
seven and one hundred eighty-eight of this article approving the conduct
of  games  of chance that are located in the county in which the munici-
pality issuing the license is located and  in  the  counties  which  are
contiguous  to  the  county in which the municipality issuing the raffle
license is located, provided those municipalities  have  authorized  the
licensee,  in writing, to sell such raffle tickets therein and provided,
however, that no sale of raffle tickets shall  be  made  more  than  one
hundred  eighty  days  prior  to  the date scheduled for the occasion at
which the raffle will be conducted. The winner of any single prize in  a
raffle  shall  not  be required to be present at the time such raffle is
conducted.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.