STATE OF NEW YORK
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7172
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 3, 2013
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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:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 11 and 12 of section 186 of the general munic-
2 ipal law, subdivision 11 as amended by chapter 337 of the laws of 1998,
3 and subdivision 12 as amended by chapter 252 of the laws of 1998, are
4 amended to read as follows:
5 11. "Single prize" shall mean the sum of money or fair market value of
6 merchandise, personal property, real property, or coins awarded to a
7 participant by a games of chance licensee in any one operation of a
8 single type of game of chance in excess of his or her wager.
9 12. "Series of prizes" shall mean the total amount of single prizes
10 minus the total amount of wagers lost during the successive operations
11 of a single type of game of chance, except that for merchandise wheels
12 and raffles, "series of prizes" shall mean the sum of cash and the fair
13 market value of merchandise, personal property, real property, or coins
14 awarded as single prizes during the successive operations of any single
15 merchandise wheel or raffle. In the game of raffle, a series of prizes
16 may include a percentage of the sum of cash received from the sale of
17 raffle tickets.
18 § 2. Subdivisions 5 and 13 of section 189 of the general municipal
19 law, subdivision 5 as amended by chapter 455 of the laws of 2012 and
20 subdivision 13 as amended by chapter 252 of the laws of 1998, are
21 amended to read as follows:
22 5. No single prize awarded by games of chance other than raffle shall
23 exceed the sum or value of three hundred dollars, except that for
24 merchandise wheels, no single prize shall exceed the sum or value of two
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 hundred fifty dollars. No single prize awarded by raffle shall exceed
2 the sum or value of one hundred thousand dollars, except that an author-
3 ized organization or a not-for-profit corporation as defined by subpara-
4 graph ten of paragraph (a) of section one hundred two of the not-for-
5 profit corporation law may award by raffle once per calendar year a
6 single prize having a value of up to and including five hundred thousand
7 dollars if its application for a license filed pursuant to section one
8 hundred ninety of this article includes a statement of its intent to
9 award a prize having such value. No single wager shall exceed six
10 dollars and for bell jars, coin boards, or merchandise boards, no single
11 prize shall exceed five hundred dollars provided, however, that such
12 limitation shall not apply to the amount of money or value paid by the
13 participant in a raffle in return for a ticket or other receipt. For
14 coin boards and merchandise boards, the value of a prize shall be deter-
15 mined by its costs to the authorized organization or not-for-profit
16 corporation or, if donated, its fair market value.
17 13. No game of chance shall be conducted on other than the premises of
18 an authorized organization or not-for-profit corporation, except if the
19 prize is real estate, then at the location of the real estate, or an
20 authorized games of chance lessor. Nothing herein shall prohibit the
21 sale of raffle tickets to the public outside the premises of an author-
22 ized organization or not-for-profit corporation or an authorized games
23 of chance lessor; or in municipalities which have passed a local law,
24 ordinance or resolution in accordance with sections one hundred eighty-
25 seven and one hundred eighty-eight of this article approving the conduct
26 of games of chance that are located in the county in which the munici-
27 pality issuing the license is located and in the counties which are
28 contiguous to the county in which the municipality issuing the raffle
29 license is located, provided those municipalities have authorized the
30 licensee, in writing, to sell such raffle tickets therein and provided,
31 however, that no sale of raffle tickets shall be made more than one
32 hundred eighty days prior to the date scheduled for the occasion at
33 which the raffle will be conducted. The winner of any single prize in a
34 raffle shall not be required to be present at the time such raffle is
35 conducted.
36 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
