Assembly Bill A9322

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Authorizes religious and charitable organizations to accept personal checks as payment for raffle tickets

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  • Introduced
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    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A9322 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5503
Current Committee:
Assembly Racing And Wagering
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §186, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
A6067

2015-A9322 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes religious and charitable organizations to accept personal checks as payment for raffle tickets.

2015-A9322 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9322

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 18, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. KOLB -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Racing and Wagering

AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in  relation  to  authorizing
  religious  and  charitable  organizations to accept personal checks as
  payment for raffle tickets

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivisions  3-b  and  20  of section 186 of the general
municipal law, subdivision 3-b as added by chapter 550 of  the  laws  of
1994 and subdivision 20 as added by chapter 574 of the laws of 1978, are
amended to read as follows:
  3-b.  "Raffle" shall mean and include those games of chance in which a
participant pays money OR BY PERSONAL CHECK, PROVIDED THE RAFFLE IS HELD
BY AN AUTHORIZED ORGANIZATION THAT IS A BONA FIDE RELIGIOUS OR  CHARITA-
BLE ORGANIZATION, in return for a ticket or other receipt and in which a
prize  is  awarded on the basis of a winning number or numbers, color or
colors, or symbol or symbols designated on the ticket or receipt, deter-
mined by chance as a result of a drawing from  among  those  tickets  or
receipts previously sold.
  20.  "Games  of  chance currency" shall mean legal tender or a form of
scrip or chip authorized by the board, any of which may be used  at  the
discretion of the games of chance licensee; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, "GAMES OF
CHANCE  CURRENCY"  SHALL  ALSO  INCLUDE  PERSONAL  CHECKS AS PAYMENT FOR
RAFFLES WHEN THE GAMES OF CHANCE LICENSEE IS A BONA  FIDE  RELIGIOUS  OR
CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11020-01-5

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