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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1566
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 15, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. JONES, LAVINE, BLAKE, 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.
LBD03240-01-9
