§ 6-19. Veterans', charitable, educational, religious and fraternal organizations authorized to conduct raffles, bingo and similar games to raise revenues; license requirements.

It shall be lawful for any bona fide veterans', charitable, educational, religious or fraternal organizations or civic and service clubs, chartered and domiciled in the city, to hold and operate the specific kind of games of chance commonly known as raffles played by drawing for prizes or the allotment of prizes by chance by the selling of shares or tickets or rights to participate in such games and by conducting the games accordingly; and the game of chance commonly known as bingo or keno played for prizes with cards bearing numbers or other designations, five or more in one line, the holder covering numbers, as objects, similarly numbered, are drawn from a receptacle and the game being won by the person who first covers a previously designated arrangement of numbers on such a card, by selling shares or tickets or rights to participate in such games and by conducting the games accordingly when the entire net proceeds of such games of chance are to be devoted to educational, charitable, patriotic, religious or public-spirited uses, and the mayor and city council may issue a license to any such organization or club above specified as hereinafter prescribed.

(Code 1976, § 3:200; Ord. No. 825, § 1, 10-9-1978)