California CodesBusiness and Professions Code - BPCDivision 8 — Special Business RegulationsChapter 5 — The Gambling Control ActArticle 17 — Nonprofit Organization FundraisersSection 19985
The Legislature finds and declares the following:
(a) Nonprofit organizations provide important and necessary services to the people of the State of California with respect to educational and social services and there is a need to provide methods of fundraising to nonprofit organizations so as to enable them to meet their stated purposes.
(b) The playing of controlled games for the purpose of raising funds by nonprofit organizations is in the public interest.
(c) Uniform regulation for the conduct of controlled games is in the best interests of nonprofit organizations and the people of this state.
Notes
Establishes only legislative findings that nonprofit organizations provide important educational and social services, need fundraising methods, may serve the public interest by using controlled games to raise funds, and benefit, along with Californians, from uniform regulation of those games. It imposes no operative requirement, deadline, fee, penalty, or stated exception.
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