Compiled by the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library
Issues, suspends, and revokes licenses of organizations, bingo halls, distributors, and manufacturers of gambling equipment. Registers gambling equipment, collects license fees and inspects records, conducts hearings to insure integrity of operations and compliance with all applicable laws and rules. Reports annually to the Governor and the Legislature and recommends changes in laws governing legal forms of gambling.
The Charitable Gambling Control Board was replaced by the Gambling Control Board effective July 1, 1989 (see Laws of Minnesota 1989, chap. 334, art. 2, sec. 17).
The board consists of 13 members: elevenpersons appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate, at least four of whom must reside outside of the seven-county metropolitan area; the commissioner of public safety or a designee; and the attorney general or a designee.
Entries for this agency in the Annual Compilation and Statistical Report of Multi-Member Agencies Report: 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984.
Note: This report provides membership details as well as meeting information and a summary of the group's activities.
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