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Exempt/Excluded Permit for Fundraising Events

COVID-19 Update for Exempt Activities (3/17/20)

• If holding raffle drawing as originally scheduled, you must still follow all lawful raffle conduct requirements plus any health advisory requirements.

The current yellow 21-and 31-day paper permits will be phased out once MNDRIVE is implemented. Dealers have until Dec. 31, to begin issuing the new style permits. All permits must be issued using MNDRIVE beginning Jan. Premises Permits for Lawful Gambling Premises permits for lawful gambling in unincorporated areas of Dakota County are issued by the Minnesota Gambling Control Board. Application and permit information is located on the Minnesota Gambling Control Board website. A License Applicant Information Form must be completed.

• If delaying drawing date or moving drawing location, please email your Licensing Specialist with your permit number, location, and original date of your postponed activity. Publicize the delay of the raffle so people who may have purchased raffle tickets understand the reason for the delay. Your organization will have up to one year from the original date of the permit to reschedule your postponed activity date. Once the information is complete on when and where your event will take place, send the new information with an appropriate signature from the local unit of government acknowledging the activity, and signed by your CEO, to your Licensing Specialist. A new permit will be reissued to your organization with the updated information.

• If you intend to cancel a raffle, your organization will need to return any money received from sales of raffle tickets.

If you have purchased any other gambling equipment such as pull-tabs, tipboards, or paddlewheels and paddletickets, make sure that this equipment is properly secured with invoices until such time as it will be used. You may also be able to return unused equipment to the licensed distributor your organization purchased the equipment from.

Please direct any questions to your Licensing Specialist via email. This will ensure a quicker response than a telephone call at this time.

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Mn Gambling Permits Locations

The following information pertains to registered nonprofit organizations seeking to conduct bingo, raffles, and other forms of lawful gambling by excluded or exempt permit as allowed by Minnesota law.

You will need to determine for the calendar year:

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• what type of gambling you will be conducting,
• how many events will be conducted (for raffles, the event date is the drawing date), and
• the estimated total market value of all donated and purchased prizes to be awarded.

An organization may not conduct both exempt and excluded activity in the same calendar year.

Forms and information for the conduct of raffles, bingo, pull-tabs, tipboards, and paddlewheels.