Pursuant to Subdivision 2 of § 9 of Article I of the State
Constitution, it shall be lawful for any authorized organization, as defined
in § 476 of Article 14-H of the General Municipal Law, upon obtaining
the required license, to conduct bingo games within the territorial limits
of the Town of Greenwich, subject to the provisions of this chapter, Article
14-H of the General Municipal Law, Article 19-B of the Executive Law, the
Rules and Regulations of the State Bingo Control Commission and the following
restrictions.
No person, firm, association, corporation or organization, other than
a licensee under the provisions of Article 14-H of the General Municipal Law,
shall conduct such game or shall lease or otherwise make available for conducting
bingo a hall or other premises for any consideration whatsoever, direct or
indirect.
No bingo games shall be held, operated or conducted on or within any
leased premises if rental under such lease is to be paid, wholly or partly,
on the basis of a percentage of the receipts or net profits derived from the
operation of such game.
No authorized organization licensed under the provisions of Article
14-H of the General Municipal Law shall purchase or receive any supplies or
equipment specifically designed or adapted for use in the conduct of bingo
games from other than a supplier licensed under the Bingo Control Law or from
another authorized organization.
The entire net proceeds of any game of bingo and of any rental shall
be exclusively devoted to the lawful purposes of the organization permitted
to conduct the same.
No prize shall exceed the sum or value set forth in General Municipal
Law § 479(3).
No series of prizes on any one bingo occasion shall aggregate more than
the amount as forth in General Municipal Law § 479(5).
The unauthorized conduct of a bingo game and any willful violation of
this chapter shall constitute and be punishable as a misdemeanor. This chapter
shall not become operative or effective unless and until it shall have been
submitted at a general or special election and approved by a vote of the majority
of the qualified electors of the Town of Greenwich, voting on a proposition
which proposition shall state: “Shall an ordinance adopted by the Town
Board of the Town of Greenwich on the 8th day of September, 1965, which authorizes-
the conduct of bingo games within the Town of Greenwich be approved?”
and which proposition shall be submitted at a general election to be held
on November 2, 1965, in accordance with the provisions of §§ 477,
478, 479 and 496 of the General Municipal Law and other applicable provisions
of law.