§ 18-43. Personnel; permitted expenditures.

No person shall hold, operate or conduct or assist in holding, operating or conducting of any game of chance under any license issued under this article except an active member of the organization or association to which the license is issued. No such game of chance shall be conducted with any equipment except such as shall be owned absolutely or used without payment of any compensation therefor by the licensee. No item of expense shall be incurred or paid in connection with the holding, operating or conducting of any game of chance held, operated or conducted pursuant to any license issued under this article, except such as are bona fide items of reasonable amount for goods, wares and merchandise furnished or services rendered, which are reasonably necessary to be purchased or furnished for the holding, operating or conducting thereof, and no compensation under any circumstances whatever shall be paid or given, directly or indirectly, to any person holding, operating or conducting or assisting in the holding, operating or conducting of any game of chance so held, operated or conducted. Any such game shall be held, operated or conducted only on or in premises owned or leased and occupied by the licensee under this article, unless a waiver is granted by the city upon written request of the licensee.

(Code 1988, § 10-38)

State law reference

Persons entitled to hold games, equipment, expenses, commissions or salaries, R.S. 4:715.