This chapter shall be known as the "Games of Chance Law of the
Town of Lysander."
The Town Board of the Town of Lysander finds the raising of
funds for the promotion of bona fide charitable, educational, scientific,
health, religious, patriotic and other worthy causes, where the beneficiaries
are undetermined, to be in the public interest and that the mandate
of § 9 of Article I of the Constitution of the State of
New York, as amended, should be carried out by rigid regulations to
prevent commercialized gambling, to prevent participation by criminal
and other undesirable elements and to prevent the diversion of funds
from the purposes herein authorized.
This chapter is subject and subordinate to all the conditions
and provisions contained in Article 9-A of the General Municipal Law
and amendments thereto and any and all rules and regulations and opinions
adopted or to be adopted by the New York State Racing and Wagering
Board.
No person, firm, association, corporation or organization other
than an authorized organization or authorized games of chance lessor
licensed under the provisions of this chapter shall be permitted to
conduct games of chance within the territorial limits of the Town
of Lysander or to lease any hall for the purposes of conducting games
of chance.
This chapter shall not take effect until a proposition therefor
submitted at a general or special election in the Town of Lysander
shall be approved by the affirmative vote of a majority of the qualified
electors in the Town of Lysander voting upon said proposition.