§ 18-32. Licensing of charitable organizations authorized.

The provisions of any other ordinances or regulations of the city to the contrary notwithstanding, the city clerk is hereby authorized to grant licenses upon approval of the mayor and city council to charitable organization such as bona fide veterans nonprofit organizations, or eleemosynary, benevolent, educational, religious, or fraternal organizations, or civic and service clubs, located in the city, recognized as such under the laws of the state. These charitable organizations may be licensed to hold and operate the following specific kind of games of chance:

(1)

The game of chance commonly known as raffles played by drawing for prizes or the allotment of prizes for chance, by the selling of shares or tickets or rights to participate in such game and by conducting the games accordingly; and

(2)

The game of chance commonly known as bingo, defined as a game played for prizes with cards bearing numbers or other designations, five or more in one line, with 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 card.

(Code 1988, § 10-27)

State law reference

Similar provisions, R.S. 4:707(A)(1), (2).