Bill Text: NY S00940 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 940 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relates to allowing alcoholic beverages as prizes in any game of chance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-02-28 - referred to racing and wagering [S00940 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           940
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 5, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sens. FUNKE, CROCI, RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on  Racing,
          Gaming and Wagering
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to allowing alco-
          holic beverages as prizes in any game of chance
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 195-d of the general municipal law, as  amended  by
     2  chapter 637 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  195-d.  Charge  for  admission and participation; amount of prizes;
     4  award of prizes. A fee may be charged by any licensee for  admission  to
     5  any  game  or  games  of chance conducted under any license issued under
     6  this article. The clerk or department may in its discretion fix a  mini-
     7  mum  fee.  With  the  exception  of  bell jars, coin boards, seal cards,
     8  merchandise boards, and raffles, every winner shall  be  determined  and
     9  every  prize shall be awarded and delivered within the same calendar day
    10  as that upon which the game was played. [No alcoholic beverage shall  be
    11  offered or given as a prize in any game of chance.]
    12    §  2.  Subdivision 3 of section 190-a of the general municipal law, as
    13  added by chapter 400 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
    14    3. No person under the age of eighteen shall  be  permitted  to  play,
    15  operate  or  assist  in  any  raffle conducted pursuant to this section.
    16  Where any such raffle awards a prize containing alcohol, no person under
    17  the age of twenty-one shall be permitted to play, operate or  assist  in
    18  such raffle conducted pursuant to this section.
    19    § 3. 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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