563.15 Issuance of license to conduct bingo.
(1) After making the determinations under s. 563.14, the department shall either notify the applicant organization in writing why a license is not being issued or issue a license to such applicant organization authorizing it to conduct bingo at the times and places set forth in the license. Except as provided in sub. (1m), a license issued under this subsection shall be effective for one year from the first day of the month of the first occasion listed on the license and may be renewed annually, except that an applicant organization may request that the license expire on the first day of any month within the one-year licensure period.
(1m) A license issued under sub. (1) to an organization listed under s. 563.11 (1) (b) to (d) shall remain in effect unless it is canceled, suspended or revoked by the department or withdrawn by the organization.
(3) Each license, and all amendments thereto, shall be conspicuously displayed at the place where a bingo occasion is conducted and at all times during the conduct thereof so as to be easily readable by any patron of the bingo occasion.
History: 1973 c. 156; 1975 c. 99; 1979 c. 34 s. 2100 (45) (a); 1981 c. 162, 209, 391; 1989 a. 147; 1991 a. 39; 1991 a. 269 ss. 782dd to 782dp; Stats. 1991 s. 563.15; 1995 a. 27 s. 9123 (6pp); 1997 a. 27.