New York § 480 - 480Application for license

§ 480. 480Application for license

§ 480. Application for license. 1. To conduct bingo. (a) Each applicant for a license to conduct bingo shall, after obtaining an identification number from the control commission, file with the clerk of the municipality a written or electronic application therefor in the form prescribed in the rules and regulations of the control commission, duly executed and verified, in which such applicant shall state: (1) the name and address of the applicant together with sufficient facts relating to such applicant's incorporation and organization to enable the governing body of the municipality to determine whether or not the applicant is a bona fide authorized organization; (2) the names and addresses of the applicant's officers; the place or places where, and the date or dates and the time or times when, the applicant intends to conduct bingo under the license applied for; (3) in case the applicant intends to lease premises for this purpose from other than an authorized organization, the name and address of the licensed commercial lessor of such premises, and the capacity or potential capacity for public assembly purposes of space in any premises presently owned or occupied by the applicant; (4) the amount of rent to be paid or other consideration to be given directly or indirectly for each occasion for use of the premises of another authorized organization licensed under this article to conduct bingo or for use of the premises of a licensed commercial lessor; (5) all other items of expense intended to be incurred or paid in connection with the holding, operating and conducting of such games of bingo and the names and addresses of the persons to whom, and the purposes for which, they are to be paid; (6) the specific purposes to which the entire net proceeds of such games of bingo are to be devoted and in what manner; that no commission, salary, compensation, reward or recompense will be paid to any person for conducting such bingo game or games or for assisting therein except as in this article otherwise provided; and such other information as shall be prescribed by the rules and regulations of the commission. (b) In each application there shall be designated an active member or members of the applicant organization under whom the game or games of bingo will be conducted and to the application shall be appended a statement executed by the member or members so designated, that he, she or they will be responsible for the conduct of such bingo games in accordance with the terms of the license, the rules and regulations of the commission and this article. 2. Commercial lessor. (a) Each applicant for a license to lease premises to a licensed organization for the purposes of conducting bingo therein shall file with the clerk of the municipality an application therefor in a form prescribed in the rules and regulations of the control commission duly executed and verified, which shall set forth the name and address of the applicant; designation and address of the premises intended to be covered by the license sought; lawful capacity for public assembly purposes; cost of premises and assessed valuation for real estate tax purposes, or annual net lease rent, whichever is applicable; gross rentals received and itemized expenses for the immediately preceding calendar or fiscal year, if any; gross rentals, if any, derived from bingo during the last preceding calendar or fiscal year; computation by which proposed rental schedule was determined; number of occasions on which applicant anticipates receiving rent for bingo during the ensuing year or shorter period if applicable; proposed rent for each such occasion; estimated gross rental income from all other sources during the ensuing year; estimated expenses itemized for ensuing year and amount of each item allocated to bingo rentals; a statement that the applicant in all respects conforms with the specifications contained in the definition of "authorized commercial lessor" set forth in section four hundred seventy-six of this article, and such other information as shall be prescribed by the rules and regulations of the commission. (b) At the end of the license period, a recapitulation, in a manner prescribed in the rules and regulations of the commission, shall be made as between the licensee and the municipal governing body in respect of the gross rental actually received during the license period and the fee paid therefor. The licensee shall pay any deficiency of fee thereby shown to be due and any excess of fee thereby shown to have been paid shall be credited to such licensee, in such manner as the commission by rules and regulations shall prescribe.