Title 5, Title 5: AMUSEMENTS, PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS AND MEETINGS

5:8-101 Licensing of owner, operator of amusement games; terms defined. 2. It shall be lawful for the governing body of any municipality, at any time after this act shall become operative and except when prohibited by this act, to license the owner and operator of any amusement g…

5:8-101.1 Issuance of amusement games license to certain holders of a special concessionaire permit. 1. The holder of a special concessionaire permit, as provided for in R.S.33:1-42, whose licensed premises is located in the post-security checkpoint area of the departure level of…

5:8-102. Application for municipal license; filing; contents; state license; annual fees 3. Each applicant for such a license shall file with the clerk of the municipality a written application therefor in the form prescribed by the Legalized Games of Chance Control Commission, d…

5:8-103. Investigation by municipality; issuance of license; fees; removal of disqualification; notice of change in facts The governing body of the municipality shall make an investigation of the qualifications of each applicant and the merits of each application, with due expedi…

5:8-104. Refusal to issue license; notice; hearing; additional licenses Where the issuance of licenses is authorized by the municipality no application for the issuance of a license shall be refused by the governing body until after a hearing is held on due notice to the applican…

5:8-105. Form of license; contents; display Each license shall be in such form as shall be prescribed in the rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner and shall contain a description of the kind of amusement games authorized to be held, operated and conducted thereund…

5:8-106 Control, supervision by municipality of amusement games, offer of electronic amusements. 7. a. The governing body of any municipality issuing any license under this act shall have and exercise control and supervision over all amusement games held, operated or conducted un…

5:8-107. Maximum charges; value, determination and award of prizes 8. The Legalized Games of Chance Control Commission shall determine the amount for any 1 game which shall be charged or accepted by any licensee from any 1 player or participant as an entry fee or payment for the …

5:8-108. Examination of books and records The governing body of the municipality and the Control Commissioner shall have power to examine or cause to be examined the books and records of any licensee so far as they may relate to any transactions connected with the holding and con…

5:8-109. Appeals to amusement games control commissioner 10. Any applicant for, or holder of, any license issued or to be issued under this act aggrieved by any action of the municipal governing body of the municipality to which such application has been made or by which such lic…

5:8-11. Appeals The commission shall hear appeals from the determinations and action of the municipal governing bodies in connection with the refusal to issue licenses and the suspension and revocation of licenses in the manner prescribed in said laws and the action and determina…

5:8-110. Exemption from gaming and lottery laws No person or corporation (1) lawfully conducting, or participating in the conduct of, (2) possessing, selling or in any manner disposing of, any shares, tickets or rights to participate in, or (3) permitting the conduct upon any pre…

5:8-111. Offenses; violators as disorderly persons; forfeiture of licenses Any person, association or corporation who or which shall make any false statement in any application for such license or shall fail to keep such books and records as shall fully and truly record all trans…

5:8-112. Exceptions; bingo and raffles Nothing contained in this act shall be deemed to authorize the playing of bingo hereunder or to modify, change or supersede the bingo licensing law (P.L.1954, c. 6), or the raffles licensing law (P.L.1954, c. 5), except in regard to such raf…

5:8-113. Exceptions; playing other games or devices for money Nothing contained in this act shall be deemed to authorize the playing for money, or other valuable thing at roulette wheels, at cards, dice or other game, with 1 or more dice, or with any other instrument, engine or d…

5:8-115. Issuance of licenses after municipal approval of act; municipal referendum Licenses issuable by a municipality under the provisions of this act may be issued only where in such municipality a majority of the votes cast therein upon the question whether this act shall be …

5:8-116. Petition; number of signers; question 17. Upon a petition signed by qualified voters of any municipality equal in number to at least 15 percent of the total number of votes cast therein at the latest preceding general election for members of the General Assembly and file…

5:8-117. Submission of act for approval by people For the purpose of complying with the provisions of the State Constitution this act shall be submitted to the people for their approval or rejection at the next general election. L.1959, c. 109, p. 518, s. 18.

5:8-118. Public question; voting instructions 19. There shall be printed on each official ballot to be used at such election the following: If you favor making the act entitled below operative within the State, and operative within this municipality, make a cross X, plus + or che…

5:8-119. Act effective upon approval by majority of votes cast If at such election a majority of all the votes cast both for and against the approval of this act shall be cast in favor of the approval thereof, then all of its provisions shall forthwith take effect. L.1959, c. 109…

5:8-12. Continuous study of operation of licensing laws It shall be the duty of the commission to carry on continuous study and investigation of the operation of the Bingo Licensing Law and the Raffles Licensing Law, and the administration thereof by the several municipalities of…

5:8-120. Effective date This section and sections 18, 19 and 20 of this act shall take effect immediately and the remainder of this act shall take effect as hereinbefore provided. L.1959, c. 109, p. 520, s. 21.

5:8-121. Extension of Amusement Games Licensing Law to include agricultural fairs and exhibitions The "Amusement Games Licensing Law," to which this act is a supplement, is hereby extended to include associations organized for the purpose of holding agricultural fairs and exhibit…

5:8-122. Eligibility of licensee; approval of department of agriculture Any association organized for the purpose of holding agricultural fairs and exhibitions, which is approved by the State Department of Agriculture for participation in any or all State sponsored programs relat…

5:8-123. Authority to conduct games; place of conducting games A licensee under the "Amusement Games Licensing Law" may conduct an amusement game or games at a place or places where any such approved association holds an agricultural fair and exhibition. L.1961, c. 103, p. 673, s…

5:8-124. Applicability of Amusement Games Licensing Law Except as otherwise provided herein, the provisions of the "Amusement Games Licensing Law" shall be applicable to the said associations and places. L.1961, c. 103, p. 674, s. 4.

5:8-125. State license; annual fee As a condition of granting a State license to any such association, where the said association is itself to operate an amusement game or amusement games, the association shall pay an annual fee of $50.00 per game ; except that, any association w…

5:8-126. Municipal license; fee Where in any 1 year the agricultural fair and exhibition is held for a period not in excess of 30 days, the fee for the municipal license shall be $5.00 or less for any 1 license. L.1961, c. 103, p. 674, s. 6.

5:8-127. Act operative in municipalities adopting Amusement Games Licensing Law without further referendum This supplemental act shall be operative in any municipality in which heretofore the "Amusement Games Licensing Law" has become operative or which shall hereafter become ope…

5:8-128. Submission of act for approval by people For the purpose of complying with the provisions of the State Constitution this supplemental act shall be submitted to the people for their approval or rejection at the next general election. L.1961, c. 103, p. 674, s. 8, eff. Aug…

5:8-129. Voting instructions; question There shall be printed on each official ballot to be used at such election the following: If you favor making the act entitled below operative within the State, make a cross (X), plus (+) or check (/) in the square opposite the word "Yes." I…

5:8-13. Continuous study as to similar laws of other states The commission shall make a continuous study and investigation also of the operation and administration of similar laws which may be in effect in other States of the United States, and of any literature on the subject wh…

5:8-130. Act effective upon approval by majority of votes cast If at such election a majority of all the votes cast both for and against the approval of this act shall be cast in favor the approval thereof, then all of its provisions shall forthwith take effect. L.1961, c. 103, p…

5:8-131 Certain nonprofit organizations, amusement games license. 1. A charitable organization determined by the federal Internal Revenue Service to be a tax exempt organization pursuant to section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 26 U.S.C. s.501(c)(3), shall be el…

5:8-14. Place of investigations and hearings; witnesses; books and documents The majority of the members of the commission may hold investigations and hearings within or without the State and shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses, the production of books and docu…

5:8-15. Incriminating evidence No person shall be excused from testifying or producing any book or document in any investigation or hearing, when ordered so to do by the members of the commission holding the same, upon the ground that testimony or documentary evidence required of…

5:8-16. Application to judge for show cause order If a person subpoenaed to attend in any such investigation or hearing fails to obey the command of the subpoena without reasonable cause, or if a person in attendance in any such investigation or hearing refuses, without lawful ca…

5:8-17. Examination and determination by judge; order; contempt Upon return of the order, the judge before whom the matter shall come on for hearing shall examine such person under oath, and if the judge shall determine, after giving such person an opportunity to be heard, that h…

5:8-18. Privilege from arrest A witness shall be privileged from arrest, in all civil actions and no other, during necessary attendance before the commission, at any place required by subpoena previously duly served, and during his going to and returning therefrom, allowing one d…

5:8-19. Payment of witness fees Every witness shall be entitled to be paid for attendance or attendance and travel by the party on whose behalf he is subpoenaed, at the rates prescribed by law, before being required to testify. L.1954, c. 7, p. 50, s. 19.

5:8-2. Terms of office The first members of the commission shall be appointed, 1 for 1 year, 1 for 2 years, 1 for 3 years, 1 for 4 years and 1 for 5 years, and their successors shall be appointed for terms of 5 years, and the members may hold over and serve on the commission afte…

5:8-20. Amount of witness fees Each witness attending any hearing or investigation shall be entitled to the following fees: a. In his own county, per day of attendance, 50 cents; b. From a foreign county, at the rate of $1.00 per day, together with, for each day of attendance, an…

5:8-21. Expenses, personnel, fees 21. The commission is authorized to incur such necessary expenses, and engage and appoint an executive officer and such competent and expert advisors, and clerical and stenographic assistants and investigators, as it may deem necessary to the pro…

5:8-21.1. Legalized Games of Chance Control Commission Fund 3. There is created in the Department of the Treasury a special nonlapsing fund, to be known as the Legalized Games of Chance Control Commission Fund. Except as otherwise provided by law, all monies from fees, penalties …

5:8-22. Municipalities to file copies of ordinances; reports Each municipality, in which the Bingo Licensing Law or the Raffles Licensing Law, or both, shall be adopted, shall file with the commission a copy of each ordinance enacted pursuant thereto within 10 days after the same…

5:8-23. Reports and recommendations by commission The commission shall report to the Governor, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the General Assembly annually with its recommendations, if any, and if in the meantime it shall discover any matters which shall require i…