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What is NYC AC § 20-353?

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This section regulates the advertising of bingo games conducted under specific licenses, prohibiting public advertisements through various media while allowing limited signage on premises. It specifies conditions for displaying additional signs related to licensed organizations. Applies to organizations licensed to conduct bingo games.

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§ 20-353 Advertising games.

AC § 20-353

No game of bingo to be conducted under any license issued under this subchapter and article fourteen-H of the general municipal law shall be advertised as to its location, the time when it is to be or has been played, or the prizes awarded, or to be awarded, by means of newspapers, radios, television or sound trucks or by means of billboards, posters or handbills or any other means addressed to the general public, except that one sign not exceeding sixty square feet in area may be displayed on or adjacent to the premises owned or occupied by a licensed authorized organization, and when an organization is licensed to conduct bingo on premises of another licensed authorized organization or of a licensed commercial lessor, one additional such sign may be displayed on or adjacent to the premises in which the games are to be conducted. Additional signs may be displayed upon any fire fighting equipment belonging to any licensee, which is a volunteer fire company, or upon any first-aid or rescue squad equipment belonging to any licensee, which is a first-aid or rescue squad, in and throughout the community or communities served by such volunteer fire company or such first-aid or rescue squad as the case may be.

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