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A04901 Summary:

BILL NOA04901
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORJones
 
COSPNSRCook, Rivera, Mikulin
 
MLTSPNSREpstein
 
Amd 195, Gen Muni L
 
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.
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A04901 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          4901
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 24, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. JONES, COOK, RIVERA, MIKULIN -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of A.  EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee  on
          Racing and Wagering
 
        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 the
    12  foregoing provisions of  this  section  no  games  of  chance  shall  be
    13  conducted 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.
                                                                   LBD02914-01-3
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