2019-115 Ordinance Amending City Code Chapter 62 - Raffles, Sections 1, 3, 4, 6-11

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ORDINANCE NO. �'Q`�"' �I 5 ORDINANCE AMENDING CITY CODE - CHAPTER 62 - -RAFFLES— BE IT ORDAINED, BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS: Section 1. That Chapter 62 of the City Code of the City of Decatur, Illinois, be, and the same is hereby modified and amended by adding language to Section 1. Said Section 1 as so modified, amended and added, shall provide as follows: 1. DEFINITIONS. Whenever used in this Chapter, the word "Act" shall mean "An Act to provide for licensing and regulating certain games of chance and amending certain Acts herein named", Public Act 81-1365, as amended by Public Act 101-109. Word and phrases used herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Act,unless the context clearly indicates some other meaning is intended. The word"organization"shall be construed to include an auxiliary or affiliate of a licensee. Section 2. That Chapter 62 of the City Code of the City of Decatur, Illinois, be, and the same is hereby modified and amended by amending Sections 3 and 4, so that Sections 3 and 4 as so modified and amended, shall provide as follows: 3. APPLICATION FOR LICENSE. Licenses for raffles shall be issued only to bona fide religious, charitable, labor, business, fraternal, educational, veteran's or other bona fide not- for-profit organizations which are located within the corporate limits of the City of Decatur and which operate without profit to their members and which have been in existence continuously for a period of five years immediately before applying for such license and have during said period been engaged in carrying out their objects,or to a non-profit fundraising organization that the City Manager determines is organized for the sole purpose of providing financial assistance to an identified individual or group of individuals suffering extreme financial hardship as the result of an illness, disability, accident or disaster or to any law enforcement agencies and Statewide associations that represent law enforcement officials. Application shall be made in writing, no fewer than ten days before the intended sale of raffle chances, on forms provided by the Finance Department.Each application shall contain the name and address of the applicant,the area in which winning chances in the raffle will be determined,the time period during which raffle chances will be sold or issued,the time and manner and location of determining the winning chances, and such other information as the Department may require. Each application must contain a sworn statement attesting to the not-for-profit character of the applicant, signed by its presiding officer and secretary. (AMENDED, Ordinance No. 89-42, May 1, 1989) 4. FEE. Each raffle, other than those authorized by an annual license, shall be authorized by a separate license. Annual licenses may be issued for a specified number of raffles to be conducted during a specified period not to exceed one year. The license fee, for other than annual licenses, payment of which shall accompany the application, shall be $25.00 for the first $1,000