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y f . .. . Nis. Betsy Jack, Administrator February 20, 1987 Page 2 Several calls were made to the Attorney General's office in order to clarify this, and it was again determ:i.ned that the governmental relationship to the Senior Center was such that they would not issue a Bingo license and also we would be unable to get atax-exempt status for a governm~r-ta1 organization. The only avenue left open at this point was to establish anon-profit corporation within the Senior center itself, which would qualify as either a social or welfare type organization aria permit the issuing of the Internal Rnue letter of exemption. The only problem with this is that to do this it wr3uld create a new organization and under the laws of the State of Ohio relating to the isle of Bingo licenses, they would not entertain an application for ~ Bingo license until such time as the organization had been in existence for a period of at least two (2) years. Additional calls were made to the Attorney General's office with the intention of attempting to have the two-year period wa.veci in this particular i.nsta~nce, in that the Sen3.or Center itself and the participants ing in this had been actively engaged in this fonT- of vrganization for a period w~el in excess of the two yrs. The Attorney General's office was again contacted on February 19 and at that time I spoke to a Mrs. Monica M~-].oatey,• who was familiars with the situation and she informed me that the proposal had begirt submitted to her erintendent and that it was rejected on the basis that the two-year period was a statutory requrearent and was, therefore, not able to be waived. At this point T re-contacted you and requested that possibly we check into the possibility of one or several of the organizations wig are presently in existence within the Senior Center itself consent to the operation of the Bingo gam under their own organizational. n a~-ci, if necessary, that I would incorporate one of them. The incorporation of one of the existing organizations would reset the guide- lines in that the organization itself has been in continuous existence for aver two years anti that we were merely chaffing the status of the organization from an association to anon-profit corporation. 'This could be done either way, as an association or non-profit corporation, but as art orga~tization, the organization itself must have rules, regulations and by-laws that need be subc~itted to the Attorney General's office in order to obtain the proper Bingo licensing. It is conceivable that one of the organizations presently in existence and closely associated .with the Senior Center may already have a letter of exemption issued by the Internal Revenue Service and if this is the case, then a great number of the problems would be solves and we would be able to make application under that particular organization to the Attorey General for issuance of the Bingo license. The only difficulty with any of this is that in doing this there must be an amtual accounting of Bingo proceeds and the game as it was run prior to this would have to be changed to the extent that the organization was showing some income from the operation of the Bingo g and that the income was being used in compliance with the Ohio Revised Code 2915.02 regarding gambling exceptions. the entire problem is a confusing one and complicated to the extent that whatever