Colorado § 24-21-607 - Bingo-raffle license - fee.

§ 24-21-607. Bingo-raffle license - fee.

(1) A bona fide chartered branch, lodge, or chapter of a national or state organization or any bona fide religious, charitable, labor, fraternal, educational, voluntary firefighters', or veterans' organization or any association, successor, or combination of association and successor of any of these organizations that operates without profit to its members, has been in existence continuously for a period of five years immediately prior to the making of application for a bingo-raffle license under this part 6, and has had during the entire five-year period dues-paying members engaged in carrying out the objects of the corporation or organization is eligible for a bingo-raffle license to be issued by the licensing authority under this part 6. If a license is revoked, the bingo-raffle licensee and holder thereof is not eligible to apply for another license under subsection (2) of this section for no more than one year after the date of the revocation.

(2) The bingo-raffle licenses provided by this part 6 shall be issued by the licensing authority to applicants qualified under this part 6 upon payment of a fee established in accordance with section 24-21-606 (2). Licenses expire at the end of the calendar year in which they were issued by the licensing authority and may be renewed by the licensing authority upon the filing of an application for renewal thereof provided by the licensing authority and the payment of the fee established for the renewal. No license granted under this part 6 or any renewal thereof is transferable. The fees required to be paid for a new or renewal license shall be deposited in the department of state cash fund created in section 24-21-104 (3)(b).

Source: L. 2017: Entire part added with relocations, (SB 17-232), ch. 233, p. 918, § 2, effective May 23.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-9-104 as it existed prior to 2017.

ANNOTATION

Licensees, if otherwise qualified, are entitled to only one license each and are limited to one location for each license. All licensees, except exempt umbrella charitable organizations, must hold their games of chance at one location. Am. Hist. Soc. of Germans v. Meyer, 794 P.2d 1025 (Colo. App. 1989) (decided under former law).

Five-year period of operation requirement not met by charitable organization that had separated from another charitable organization two years before applying for a bingo-raffle license. Applicant organization was not a "successor" because it did not completely take the place of the organization it separated from. Ginny's Kids Int'l, Inc. v. Office of the Sec'y of State, 29 P.3d 333 (Colo. App. 2000) (decided under former law).