LAC 42:V.2001. General Provisions

A. Organizations shall be licensed by the division prior to being eligible for a local license. B. License to conduct New Orleans Cable Television Bingo shall only be issued to: 1. an organization meeting qualifications as required by Louisiana's Raffles, Bingo, Keno Licensing Law, R.S. 33:4861.1 et seq., and R.S. 40:1485.1 et seq., administrative rules; and 2. an organization/member organizations actively domiciled in the state of Louisiana for minimum of two consecutive years immediately preceding their application; and 3. the organization, in addition, making application must prove to the division by a preponderance of the evidence to be a charitable, religious, nonprofit educational, public service, or civic organization. An organization's own determination that it is such an organization is not a controlling factor. In the division's determination, the division shall consider factors such as the group's stated purpose; the group's actual activities; the amount and proportion of its activities and monies that are devoted to its charitable, religious, nonprofit educational, public service, or civic activities; the amount and proportion of its revenue devoted to salaries, overhead, or other items; and whether it has qualified for nonprofit status with the Internal Revenue Service. Because of the exceptions to the state's constitutional prohibitions of gambling, the division shall carefully scrutinize all these factors and considerations. With respect to nonprofit status with the Internal Revenue Service, in particular, having such status with the Internal Revenue Service is a factor but will not be determinative alone.