N.Y. General Municipal Law § 494: Exemption from prosecution

§ 494. Exemption from prosecution. No person or corporation lawfully

conducting, or participating in the conduct of bingo 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 bingo 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 bingo conducted

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

false pretense or statement.