Mn State Gambling Permit

Exempt/Excluded Permit for Fundraising Events

443 Lafayette Road N. Phone: 651-284-5005 Toll-free: 800-342-5354. Name: Southwest Minnesota State University Foundation Previous Gambling Permit Number: Federal Employer ID Number (FEIN), if any: Minnesota Tax ID Number, if any: Mailing Address: 1501 State Street City: Marshall State: MN Name of Chief Executive Officer (CEO: Bill Mulso CEO Daytime Phone: 507-537-6267 CEO Email: Zip: 56258 County: L:r:on. AGED also performs gaming license and vendor investigations for the Minnesota Racing Commission, Minnesota State Lottery and Minnesota Gambling Control Board. Gambling criminal enforcement and investigation — AGED is the primary state law enforcement agency to investigate crimes and violations relating to legal and unlawful forms of gambling. Gambling has a long and sordid history in the U.S., from the card games of the Wild West to bingo in church basements. Generally, state laws determine which types of gambling are legal, which are strictly prohibited, and how legal forms are gambling are regulated.


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

License Termination Plan. If you permanently stop conducting gambling activities, you must file a Form LG204, License Termination Plan, with the Gambling Control Board within 30 days from the date you stop the activities. The form is available on the Gambling Control Board’s website.

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

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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:

  • 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.

Informational Memo

Published: June 9, 2020

Mn State Gambling Permit Practice Test

Lawful Gambling
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This material contains general information; it should not be used as a substitute for legal advice. Any attorney general opinions cited in this material are available on request from the League’s Research and Information Service staff.

State Of Mn Gambling Permit

Learn what gambling is allowed in Minnesota, like pull-tabs, bingo and raffles, and which organizations may conduct them. Understand state regulations on lawful purposes for which gambling money may be spent, licensing, gambling managers, and more. Find out how cities can regulate gambling with “10 percent funds,” investigation fees, trade areas, and local gambling taxes. Discusses gambling and municipal liquor stores.

Mn State Gambling Permit Requirements

Use these model documents with the discussion about “Lawful Gambling”:

Mn State Gambling Permit Rules And Regulations

  • Regulating Lawful Gambling, LMC model ordinance (doc)
  • Local Gambling Permit Application, LMC model form (doc)
  • Approving a Lawful Gambling Premises Permit, LMC model resolution (doc)
  • Denying a Lawful Gambling Premises Permit, LMC model resolution (doc)