STATE OF NEW YORK
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5056
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 7, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. RAIA, FINCH, LAVINE, RA, HAWLEY, GIGLIO, DiPIETRO
-- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, McDONOUGH,
MORINELLO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Racing and
Wagering
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to allowing char-
itable organizations to accept credit cards as payment for games of
chance
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 189 of the general municipal law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 12-a to read as follows:
3 12-a. Notwithstanding subdivision twelve of this section, an author-
4 ized organization may accept a credit card as a form of payment for
5 participation in a game of chance.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
7 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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