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<br />.. <br /> <br />Local Units of Government <br /> <br />... <br /> <br />Page 2 of2 <br /> <br />Ten percent fund - report required. <br />As established by ordinance, a city or county may require an organization to cootribute up to ten percent per year of net pr <br />to a fund that the city or county administers. <br /> <br />The ten percent requirement may only be applied to net profits derived frOOl lawful gambling cooducted at premises withit <br />city or county's jorisdiction. <br /> <br />L The funds may only be spent by the city or county for lawful purposes, including police, tire, and other emergency , <br />public safety-related services, equipment, and training. However, the fund may not be used for the payment of pens <br />obligations or general city functions. <br />2. A licensed organization that cootribotes to the ten percent fund may not be the beneficiary of that fund. <br /> <br />A report must be submitted to the Gambling Control Board by March IS of each year, using form 1,.0.510 City or Coullly <br />Annual Reoort. IQ% Conlribulion fUlld. <br /> <br />Trade area. <br />By ordinance, a city or county may require that a licensed organization cooducting lawful gambling within its jurisdiction <br />spend all or a portion of its lawful purpose expenditures on lawful purposes coodocted or located within the city's or conot <br />trade area. Townships cootiguous to a defining city were added to the definitioo of trade area noder Minnesota Statutes <br />349.213, subdivisioo l(b) by the 2000 Legislature. <br /> <br />The ordinance is limited to the following: <br /> <br />1. lawful purpose expenditures are limited to gross profits derived from lawful gambling cooducted at premises withit <br />city's or county's jurisdictioo <br />2. the ordinance must define the city's or county's trade area <br />3. the ordinance must specify the percentage of lawful purpose expenditures which must be expended within the trade <br /> <br />The city or conoty does not have aothority OIl what specific lawful purpose expenditures must be made. That authority rest <br />with the organizatioo and its membership. <br /> <br />For additional informatioo regarding local authority cootained in Minnesota Statutes 349.213, click; hc~ <br /> <br />To return to the Minnesota Gambling Control Board home page, click here. <br /> <br />http://www.gcb.state.mn.us/LocalGov.htm <br /> <br />5/2/2002 <br />