517.17 ELECTRONIC INSTANT BINGO; PROHIBITED CONDUCT.

517.17 ELECTRONIC INSTANT BINGO; PROHIBITED CONDUCT.

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Sheffield Lake Overview
Codified Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
CERTIFICATION
ROSTER OF OFFICIALS
ADOPTING ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
COMPARATIVE SECTION TABLE
TABLES OF SPECIAL ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
CHARTER
PART ONE - ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
PART THREE - TRAFFIC CODE
PART FIVE - GENERAL OFFENSES CODE
CHAPTER 501 General Provisions and Penalty
CHAPTER 505 Animals and Fowl
CHAPTER 509 Disorderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
CHAPTER 513 Drug Abuse Control
CHAPTER 517 Gambling
517.01 DEFINITIONS.
517.02 GAMBLING.
517.03 OPERATING A GAMBLING HOUSE.
517.04 PUBLIC GAMING.
517.05 CHEATING.
517.06 METHODS OF CONDUCTING A BINGO GAME; PROHIBITIONS.
517.07 INSTANT BINGO CONDUCT.
517.08 RAFFLES.
517.09 CHARITABLE INSTANT BINGO ORGANIZATIONS.
517.10 LOCATION OF INSTANT BINGO.
517.11 BINGO OR GAME OF CHANCE RECORDS.
517.12 BINGO OPERATOR PROHIBITIONS.
517.13 BINGO EXCEPTIONS.
517.14 INSTANT BINGO CONDUCT BY A VETERAN’S OR FRATERNAL ORGANIZATION.
517.15 SEIZURE AND DESTRUCTION OF GAMBLING DEVICES.
517.16 SKILL-BASED AMUSEMENT MACHINES.
517.17 ELECTRONIC INSTANT BINGO; PROHIBITED CONDUCT.
517.99 PENALTY.
CHAPTER 521 Health, Safety and Sanitation
CHAPTER 525 Law Enforcement and Public Office
CHAPTER 529 Liquor Control
CHAPTER 531 Noise Control
CHAPTER 533 Obscenity and Sex Offenses
CHAPTER 537 Offenses Against Persons
CHAPTER 541 Property Offenses
CHAPTER 545 Theft and Fraud
CHAPTER 549 Weapons and Explosives
CHAPTER 553 Railroads
CHAPTER 557 Watercraft
CHAPTER 561 Weeds and Grass
PART SEVEN - BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
PART NINE - STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE
PART ELEVEN - PLANNING AND ZONING CODE
PART THIRTEEN - BUILDING CODE
PART FIFTEEN - FIRE PREVENTION CODE
OH
Sheffield Lake
Codified Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
517.17 ELECTRONIC INSTANT BINGO; PROHIBITED CONDUCT.
CHAPTER 517 Gambling
517.14 INSTANT BINGO CONDUCT BY A VETERAN’S OR FRATERNAL ORGANIZATION.
   (a)   Subject to the requirements of Ohio R.C. 2915.14 and 2915.15 concerning electronic instant bingo, a veteran’s organization, a fraternal organization, or a sporting organization authorized to conduct a bingo session pursuant to Ohio R.C. Chapter 2915 may conduct instant bingo, electronic instant bingo, or both other than at a bingo session under a type III license issued under Ohio R.C. 2915.08 if all of the following apply:
      (1)   The veteran’s organization, fraternal organization, or sporting organization limits the sale of instant bingo or electronic instant bingo to twelve (12) hours during any day, provided that the sale does not begin earlier than 10:00 a.m. and ends not later than 2:00 a.m.
      (2)   The veteran’s organization, fraternal organization, or sporting organization limits the sale of instant bingo or electronic instant bingo to its own premises and to its own members and invited guests.
      (3)   The veteran’s organization, fraternal organization, or sporting organization is raising money for an organization that is described in IRC 509(a)(1), (a)(2), or (a)(3) and is either a governmental unit or an organization that maintains its principal place of business in this state, that is exempt from federal income taxation under IRC 501(a) and described in IRC 501(c)(3), and that is in good standing in this state and executes a written contract with that organization as required in subsection (b) hereof.
   (b)   If a veteran’s organization, fraternal organization, or sporting organization authorized to conduct instant bingo or electronic instant bingo pursuant to subsection (a) hereof is raising money for another organization that is described in IRC 509(a)(1), (a)(2), or (a)(3) and is either a governmental unit or an organization that maintains its principal place of business in this state, that is exempt from federal income taxation under IRC 501(a) and described in IRC 501(c), and that is in good standing in this state, the veteran’s organization, fraternal organization, or sporting organization shall execute a written contract with the organization that is described in IRC 509(a)(1), (a)(2), or (a)(3) and is either a governmental unit or an organization that maintains its principal place of business in this state, that is exempt from federal income taxation under IRC 501(a) and described in IRC 501(c), and that is in good standing in this state in order to conduct instant bingo or electronic instant bingo. That contract shall include a statement of the percentage of the net proceeds that the veteranfs, fraternal, or sporting organization will be distributing to the organization that is described in IRC 509(a)(1), (a)(2), or (a)(3) and is either a governmental unit or an organization that maintains its principal place of business in this state, that is exempt from federal income taxation under IRC 501(a) and described in IRC 501(c)(3), and that is in good standing in this state.
   (c)   (1)   If a veteran’s organization, fraternal organization, or sporting organization authorized to conduct instant bingo or electronic instant bingo pursuant to subsection (b) hereof has been issued a liquor permit under Ohio R.C. Chapter 4303, that permit may be subject to suspension, revocation, or cancellation if the veteran’s organization, fraternal organization, or sporting organization violates a provision of this chapter or Ohio R.C. Chapter 2915.
      (2)   No veteran’s organization, fraternal organization, or sporting organization that enters into a written contract pursuant to subsection (b) hereof shall violate any provision of this chapter or Ohio R.C. Chapter 2915, or permit, aid, or abet any other person in violating any provision of this chapter or Ohio R.C. Chapter 2915.
   (d)   A veteran’s organization, fraternal organization, or sporting organization shall give all required proceeds earned from the conduct of instant bingo or electronic instant bingo to the organization with which the veteran’s organization, fraternal organization, or sporting organization has entered into a written contract.
   (e)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of illegal instant bingo or electronic instant bingo conduct. Except as otherwise provided in this division, illegal instant bingo or electronic instant bingo conduct is a misdemeanor of the first degree. If the offender previously has been convicted of a violation of this section, illegal instant bingo or electronic instant bingo conduct is a felony to be prosecuted under appropriate state law.
(ORC 2915.13)
517.15 SEIZURE AND DESTRUCTION OF GAMBLING DEVICES.
   Upon adjudication by the courts that any apparatus, books, tickets, tokens, tables, machines, instruments or devices were so kept, used, maintained or intended for the purpose of gambling in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter or of State law, the court may forthwith order the destruction of all such property by the Police Division.
(Ord. 63-71. Passed 9-14-71.)
517.16 SKILL-BASED AMUSEMENT MACHINES.
   (a)   (1)   No person shall give to another person any item described in Section 517.01(hh)(1), (2), (3), or (4) in exchange for a noncash prize, toy, or novelty received as a reward for playing or operating a skill-based amusement machine or for a free or reduced-prize game won on a skill-based amusement machine.
      (2)   Whoever violates subsection (a)(1) of this section is guilty of skill-based amusement machine prohibited conduct. Except as provided herein, a violation of subsection (a)(1) is a misdemeanor of the first degree for each redemption of a prize that is involved in the violation. If the offender previously has been convicted of a violation of subsection (a)(1), a violation of subsection (a)(1) is a felony and shall be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
         (ORC 2915.06)
   (b)   Any regulation of skill-based amusement machines shall be governed by this chapter and Ohio R.C. Chapter 2915 and not by Ohio R.C. Chapter 1345.
(ORC 2915.061)
517.17 ELECTRONIC INSTANT BINGO; PROHIBITED CONDUCT.
   (a)   No charitable organization shall conduct electronic instant bingo unless all of the following are true:
      (1)    The organization is a veteran’s organization described in Ohio R.C. 2915.01(J), or is a fraternal organization described in Ohio R.C. 2915.01(L), and the organization qualified as a veteran’s organization or fraternal organization, as applicable, on or before June 30, 2021.
      (2)    The organization is a veteran’s organization described in IRC 501(c)(4) or is, and has received from the Internal Revenue Service a determination letter that is currently in effect stating that the organization is, exempt from federal income taxation under IRC 501(a), and is described in IRC 501(c)(7), 501(c)(8), 501(c)(10), or 501(c)(19).
      (3)    The organization has not conducted a raffle in violation of Ohio R.C. 2915.092(B) using an electronic raffle machine, as described in Ohio Veterans and Fraternal Charitable Coalition v. DeWine, Case No. 13-CV-13610 (C.P. Franklin Co. February 23, 2018), at any time on or after January 1, 2022.
   (b)   No charitable organization that conducts electronic instant bingo shall do any of the following:
      (1)    Possess an electronic instant bingo system that was not obtained in accordance with Ohio R.C. Chapter 2915 or with any rule adopted under Ohio R.C. Chapter 2915;
      (2)    Conduct electronic instant bingo on any day, at any time, or on any premises not specified on the organization’s type II or type III license issued under Ohio R.C. 2915.08;
      (3)    Hold more than one valid license to conduct electronic instant bingo at any one time;
      (4)    Conduct electronic instant bingo on more than one premises or on any premises other than the charitable organization’s principal place of business;
      (5)    Operate more than ten electronic bingo systems at the premises on which the charitable organization conducts electronic instant bingo under its license;
      (6)    Fail to display both of the following conspicuously at the premises on which the charitable organization conducts electronic instant bingo:
         A.   The charitable organization’s bingo license;
         B.   The serial number of each deal of electronic instant bingo tickets being sold.
      (7)    Permit any person the charitable organization knows, or should have known, to be under eighteen (18) years of age to play electronic instant bingo;
      (8)    Sell or provide to any person an electronic instant bingo ticket for a price different from the price displayed on the game flare for that deal, except that the charitable organization may give a participant who wins an electronic instant bingo game an electronic instant bingo ticket as a prize in place of a cash prize;
      (9)    Fail, once an electronic instant bingo deal is begun, to continue to sell tickets in that deal until all prizes have been awarded;
      (10)    Permit any person whom the organization knows, or should have known, has been convicted of a felony or gambling offense in any jurisdiction to be a bingo game operator in the conduct of electronic instant bingo;
      (11)    Permit a bingo game operator to play electronic instant bingo;
      (12)   A.   Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b)(12)B. hereof, pay compensation to a bingo game operator for conducting electronic instant bingo.
         B.   Subsection (b)(12)A. hereof does not prohibit an employee of a veteran’s organization or fraternal organization from redeeming electronic instant bingo tickets or vouchers for the organization’s members or invited guests, so long as no portion of the employee’s compensation is paid from any bingo receipts.
      (13)    Pay consulting fees to any person in relation to electronic instant bingo.
   (c)   No person shall sell, offer to sell, or otherwise provide or offer to provide an electronic instant bingo system to any person for use in this municipality unless the electronic instant bingo system has been approved under Ohio R.C. 2915.15.
   (d)   Whoever knowingly violates subsection (a), (b) or (c) hereof or a rule adopted under Ohio R.C. 2915.14(D) is guilty of illegal electronic instant bingo conduct. Illegal electronic instant bingo conduct is a misdemeanor of the first degree, except that if the offender previously has been convicted of a violation of subsection (a) or (b) hereof, or any substantially equivalent municipal ordinance or state law, or of a rule adopted under Ohio R.C. 2915.14(D), illegal instant bingo conduct is a felony to be prosecuted under appropriate state law.
(ORC 2915.14)
517.99 PENALTY.
   (EDITOR'S NOTE: See Section 501.99 for penalties applicable to any misdemeanor classification.)

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• Ordinances of Sheffield Lake, OH
• ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SHEFFIELD LAKE, OHIO
• ORDINANCE NO. 116-84
• ORDINANCES OF SHEFFIELD LAKE
• orderly Conduct and Peace Disturbance
• ORDS
• order to conduct instant bingo or electronic instant bingo
• order the destruction of all such property by the Police Division
• Ord. 63-71
• ordance with Ohio R
• adopted under Ohio R
• ordinance or state law, or of a rule adopted under Ohio R
• Ordinances and/or any other documents that appear on this site may not reflect the most current legislation adopted by the Municipality
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