Sec.7-185-2b. Application for permit

(a) No bazaar or raffle may be promoted, operated or conducted in any municipality unless it is sponsored and conducted exclusively by (1) an officially recognized organization or association of veterans of any war in which the United States has been engaged, (2) a church or religious organization, (3) a civic or service club, (4) a fraternal or fraternal benefit society, (5) an educational or charitable organization, (6) an officially recognized volunteer fire company, (7) a political party or town committee thereof or (8) a municipality acting through a committee designated to conduct a celebration of the municipality's founding on its hundredth anniversary or any multiple thereof. Any such sponsoring organization, except a committee designated pursuant to subdivision (8) of section 7-172 of the general statutes, shall have been organized in good faith and actively functioning as a nonprofit organization, for a period of at least six months prior to its application for a permit, within the municipality that is to issue the permit. Application by any such organization for a permit to conduct a bazaar or raffle shall be made to the chief of police of any municipality having an organized police department, or to the first selectman of any town in which there is no organized police department, as the case may be, in duplicate, at least ten business days in advance of the effective date of such bazaar or raffle, and such chief of police or first selectman shall forward the original of such application within five business days thereafter to the executive director, and such application shall be signed by the three designated active members under whom the bazaar or raffle described in the application is to be held.

(b) A sponsoring organization's own existence for at least six months in the municipality in which a permit is sought shall be the determining factor in regard to the issuance of a permit, notwithstanding the residence of some of the organization's members.

(c) An organization which has no such existence, or an existence of less than six months, shall not be the recipient of a permit to conduct a bazaar or raffle in such municipality, notwithstanding the status in this state of its parent organization.

(d) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of this section, a committee designated pursuant to subdivision (8) of section 7-172 of the general statutes shall not be required to have been in existence for a period of six months prior to its application for a permit.

(e) No bazaar or raffle shall be conducted under conditions other than as stated in the original application unless an "Application to amend" form, prescribed by the executive director, has been filed with and approved by the executive director.

(f) No change or amendment shall be allowed by the executive director unless the subject matter of the proposed change or amendment could lawfully and properly have been included in the original application and is not in conflict with the provisions of the bazaar and raffle act and regulations issued pursuant thereto.

(g) No change shall be permitted by the executive director in the conduct of a raffle subsequent to the sale of any raffle tickets which involves a different time, date or place of the drawing from that stated in the original application and on each of the raffle tickets, except upon personal notice of such change by the sponsoring organization to each and every purchaser of a ticket or tickets.

(Effective June 17, 1992; Amended April 5, 1999)