N.Y. General Municipal Law § 195-i: Exemption from prosecution

§ 195-i. Exemption from prosecution. No person, firm, partnership,

corporation or organization lawfully conducting, or participating in the

conduct of games of chance or permitting the conduct upon any premises

owned or leased by him or it under any license lawfully issued pursuant

to this article, shall be liable to prosecution or conviction for

violation of any provision of article two hundred twenty-five of the

penal law or any other law or ordinance to the extent that such conduct

is specifically authorized by this article, but this immunity shall not

extend to any person or corporation knowingly conducting or

participating in the conduct of games of chance under any license

obtained by any false pretense or by any false statement made in any

application for license or otherwise, or permitting the conduct upon any

premises owned or leased by him or it of any game of chance conducted

under any license known to him or it to have been obtained by any such

false pretense or statement.