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MEETING: GENERAL PURPOSE AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE
DATE: FEBRUARY 18, 1991
REPORT #: CD-6-91 FILE #:
SOg,JECT: NEVADA LOTTERY TICKET LICENSING
RECOMMENDATIONS:
It is respectfully recommended that the General Purpose and
Administration Committee recommend to Council the following:
1. THAT Report CD-6-91 be received;
2 . THAT the request of Glenn Pearson, Nevadaman, for an
exemption from certain sections of Form BOIL-TC, Nevada
Lottery Ticket Licensing be denied; and
3 . THAT Glenn Pearson be advised of Council's decision.
BACKGROUND AND COMMENT:
On October 15, 1990, Council referred correspondence to the Clerk
from Glenn Pearson, Sales Representative, Nevadaman, wherein he
requested that the Town of Newcastle grant an exemption to terms
and conditions under which break-open ticket licences may be
issued. The Sections of the Conditions which Mr. Pearson is
concerned with are as follows:
(3) A Break-Open Ticket Licence shall only be issued to a
charitable or religious organization which owns or regularly
occupies premises at which tickets will be offered for sale;
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(4) (b) The designated location specified pursuant to this
section shall not be a public, commercial, retail
location, nor a location licenced by the L.L.B.O. as a
public tavern or beverage room; and
( 17) (b) The actual handling or selling of tickets shall not be
delegated to any organization, company, entity, or to
any other person who is not a bonafide member of the
licencee.
On March 6, 1987, the then Minister of Consumer and Commercial
Relations issued a directive authorizing municipal councils to,
in their own discretion, grant an exemption to the requirements
of the above Sections provided that:
(a) the licence applicant cannot meet the requirements of
Section 3; or
(b) the licence applicant meets the requirements of Section 3
but it is impractical to sell tickets from that location;
(c) the sale of tickets is limited to ONE location only; and
(d) all other sections of the terms and conditions are complied
with.
Mr. Pearson has advised that he has had several organizations
indicate an interest to him in this regard (Kinsmen, Kinettes and
Brownsdale Community Centre to name a few) .
In speaking with a representative of the Licensed Gaming
Investigations and Enforcement Branch of the Ministry of Consumer
and Commercial Relations, I was advised that the organization,
not the distributor of the break-open tickets, should be applying
for the exemption.
The Ministry stated that each and every organization wishing an
exemption should apply to the municipality and each application
considered on its own merits .
In this case, Mr. Pearson, who is the distributor of the break-
open tickets, has requested the exemption.
The Ministry representative indicated that the ticket
distributors are aware that they should not be approaching the
municipalities on behalf of the organizations and was, in fact,
going to contact Nevadaman to ascertain why they have done so in
this case.
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Because of the information obtained from the Ministry of Consumer
and Commercial Relations, it is recommended that the request of
Glenn Pearson be denied.
Respectfully submitted Recommended for Presentation
to Committee
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P tti ple, A.M.C.T. Lawrence Kotseff, M.C. I .P.
o Clerk Chief A i istrative Officer
PLB/ms
cc: Glenn Pearson
Sales Representative
Nevadaman
4 Stanford Ct.
Newcastle, Ontario.
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