 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1438
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 15, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. CROUCH, MORINELLO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
          A. HAWLEY -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on  Racing  and
          Wagering
 
        AN  ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to the frequency
          of games of bingo
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Section  487  of the general municipal law, as amended by
     2  chapter 72 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 487. Frequency of game; sale of alcoholic beverages.  1. No game  or
     4  games  of  bingo,  except limited period bingo, shall be conducted under
     5  any license issued under this article more often than on  eighteen  days
     6  in  any  three  successive calendar months.  No game or games of limited
     7  period bingo shall be conducted between the  hours  of  twelve  midnight
     8  postmeridian  and noon, and no more than sixty games may be conducted on
     9  any single occasion of limited period bingo. No game or games  of  bingo
    10  shall be conducted in any room or outdoor area where alcoholic beverages
    11  are sold, served or consumed during the progress of the game or games.
    12    2.  Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section,
    13  any  nursing home or residential health care facility, as such terms are
    14  defined in section twenty-eight hundred one of the  public  health  law,
    15  may offer games of bingo without limitation; provided, however that such
    16  games do not offer any monetary prizes, nor offer any other prize with a
    17  value in excess of ten dollars.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02840-01-9
Relates to the frequency of games of bingo

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