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Question: Can alcoholic beverages be
raffled?
See Below (12) Alcoholic beverages shall not be awarded as a raffle prize.
FROM THE NEW
YORK STATE RACING AND WAGERING
(a) Equipment. The equipment used in the conduct of raffles
and the method of play shall ensure that each and every ticket to participate
shall have an equal opportunity to be drawn as a winner.
(1) Raffle tickets, with the exception
of the two-part "admission-style" tickets utilized in the game commonly known as
a "50/50 raffle" shall reflect the following:
(i) name and identification number of
the authorized organization;
(ii) the location(s), date(s) and time(s) of the drawing(s);
(iii) the consecutively printed serial number of the ticket;
(iv) the price of the ticket;
(v) a list of the prizes offered;
(vi) the statement: "Ticket holders need not be present to win"; and
(vii) each ticket stub or receipt shall reflect the name, address and telephone
number of the ticket purchaser, and the consecutively printed serial number of
the ticket.
(2) Each part of a two part "admission-style" ticket used in the game commonly
known as a "50/50 raffle" shall bear an identical, consecutively printed serial
number, to be used in verifying the winning ticket.
(b) The play.
(1) No single prize shall exceed the sum of $50,000 except that an organization
may award a single prize of $100,000 if it lists in the appropriate schedule
(schedule 5) of the application for games of chance license (form GC-2) the
amount of this increased prize.
(2) The aggregate fair market value of all prizes to be offered or awarded by a
licensee in raffles in any one calendar year (license period) shall not exceed
$100,000.
(3) The method of drawing and determining the winning ticket(s) shall be clearly
announced and described prior to drawing a ticket.
(4) Each drawing shall be conducted openly and in plain view of the ticket
purchasers present.
(5) Raffle tickets may be sold, and raffle drawings may be conducted, during a
licensed organization's games of chance license period, during a licensed
organization's bingo occasions, and during the games of chance license periods
and licensed bingo occasions conducted by an organization that is an affiliate
of, or is auxiliary to, the organization licensed to conduct raffles, when
permitted by the licensed auxiliary or affiliate.
(6) Raffle tickets may also be sold to the public outside the premises of an
authorized organization or an authorized games of chance lessor or in
municipalities, which have passed a local law, ordinance or resolution in
accordance with sections 187 and 188 of the General Municipal Law that are
located in the county in which the municipality issuing the license is located,
and in the counties which are contiguous to the county in which the municipality
issuing the raffle license is located, provided the licensee has received
written approval, on a form prescribed by the bard, from each municipality to
sell raffle tickets therein and provided that no sale of raffle tickets shall be
made more than 180 days prior to the date scheduled for the final drawing of the
winning raffle ticket(s).
(7) No ticket shall be sold in conjunction with any raffle, including raffles in
which winning tickets are scheduled to be drawn on multiple dates, more than 180
days prior to the date scheduled for the drawing of the last ticket in that
raffle.
(8) All raffle tickets, with the exception of the two-part "admission-style"
tickets used in the game commonly known as a "50/50 raffle," shall be sold at a
uniform price per ticket, unless the discount offered is based on the selling
price per book of tickets and the price per single ticket and the discounted
price per book of tickets are printed on each ticket.
(9) The value of merchandise to be awarded as a raffle prize
shall be the fair market value of the merchandise at the time of submission of
an application or verified statement for a raffle license.
(10) Purchasers of raffle tickets need not be present at the
raffle drawing to win.
(11) Alcoholic beverages may be sold an consumed in locations
where raffle tickets are sold and raffle drawings are conducted.
(12) Alcoholic
beverages shall not be awarded as a raffle prize.
(13) No commission, salary, compensation, reward or
recompense shall be paid or given to any person for the sale or assisting with
the sale of raffle tickets.
(14) Raffle tickets shall be sold by a member of an
authorized organization licensed to conduct raffles and may also be sold by any
person with a blood relationship or affinity with a member of an authorized
organization licensed to conduct a raffle.