New Jersey § 5:8-25

§ 5:8-25.

It shall be lawful for the governing body of any municipality, at any time after this

act shall become operative within such municipality and except when prohibited by

this act, to license bona fide organizations or associations of veterans of any war

in which the United States has been engaged, churches or religious congregations and

religious organizations, charitable, educational and fraternal organizations, civic

and service clubs, senior citizen associations and clubs, officially recognized volunteer

fire companies, and officially recognized volunteer first aid or rescue squads, to

hold and operate games of chance of, and restricted to, the specific kind of game

of chance commonly known as bingo or lotto 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, in the case of organizations or associations of veterans, and senior citizen associations or clubs, to the support of such organizations, and for

any such organization, association, church, congregation, society, club, fire company,

first aid or rescue squad, or senior citizen association or club, when so licensed,

to hold, operate and conduct such games of chance by its active members pursuant to

this act and such license, and under such conditions and regulations for the supervision

and conduct thereof as shall be prescribed by rules and regulations duly adopted from

time to time by the Legalized Games of Chance Control Commission, hereinafter designated

as the control commission, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, but only

when the entire net proceeds thereof are devoted to the uses aforesaid and for any

person or persons to participate in and play such games of chance conducted under

any such license. The control commission shall, pursuant to regulations promulgated by it, authorize

the use in conducting bingo or lotto of electronic devices that are the functional

equivalent of the cards, numbered objects, and receptacle described herein to the

extent that the use of such devices is not inconsistent with any other provision of

this act or the provisions of subparagraph A of the New Jersey Constitution, Article IV, Section 7, paragraph 2 . Any such electronic device shall comply with specifications prescribed by the commission

and shall be approved by the commission prior to use. Such devices shall not include any device into which currency, coins or tokens may

be inserted or from which currency, coins or tokens, or any receipt for monetary value,

can be dispensed or which, once provided to a person participating in bingo, is capable

of communicating with other such devices. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as allowing electronic devices

used by a qualified organization in conducting bingo or lotto to be linked to electronic

devices used by any other qualified organization in conducting bingo or lotto.