STATE OF NEW YORK
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1552
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 12, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Racing and Wagering
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to the frequency
of games of bingo
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 487 of the general municipal law, as amended by
2 chapter 72 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 487. Frequency of game; sale of alcoholic beverages. 1. No game or
4 games of bingo, except limited period bingo, shall be conducted under
5 any license issued under this article more often than on eighteen days
6 in any three successive calendar months. No game or games of limited
7 period bingo shall be conducted between the hours of twelve midnight
8 postmeridian and noon, and no more than sixty games may be conducted on
9 any single occasion of limited period bingo. No game or games of bingo
10 shall be conducted in any room or outdoor area where alcoholic beverages
11 are sold, served or consumed during the progress of the game or games.
12 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section,
13 any nursing home or residential health care facility, as such terms are
14 defined in section twenty-eight hundred one of the public health law,
15 may offer games of bingo without limitation; provided, however that such
16 games do not offer any monetary prizes, nor offer any other prize with a
17 value in excess of ten dollars.
18 § 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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