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Permit Required

The City of Aurora requires a Raffle Permit to be issued for any raffle to be held within the City of Aurora limits.

Organizations Eligible for a Raffle Applications

• 501 (c)(3)
  • Charitable
  • Educational
  • Religious
• 501 (c)(5)
  • Labor
• 501 (c)(19)
  • Veterans Organization
• 501 (c)(8) or 501 (c)(10)
  • Fraternal
• Other Not-For Profit Businesses

Required Information

• Application Fee
  • None if aggregate prize value is $500.00 or less
  • $5.00 if aggregate prize value is between $500.01 and $5,000.00
  • $25 if aggregate prize value is $5,000.01 and over
• Articles of Incorporation and/or Charter
• Organization's IRS Letter of Determination (if applicable)
• Organization's Raffle Rules.
• Fidelity Bond OR Corporate Surety

All operation and conduct of raffles shall be under the supervision of a single raffle manager as designated on the license application. Applicant must provide protection against dishonesty or theft as follows: 

1. Fidelity bond or corporate surety is not required if the anticipated aggregate prize value is less than $500 AND a majority of the members of the organization vote to waive the bond or, if there are no members of the organization, then a majority of the members of the governing board of the organization vote to waive the bond. Proof of waiver must be submitted with application.
2. Fidelity Bond or Corporate Surety: 
   1. Fidelity bond, (in favor of the organization/applicant conditioned upon the raffle manager’s honesty in the performance of his/her duties) in the sum of the aggregate retail value of the prizes if the anticipated aggregate prize value is greater than $500 but less than $15,000.
   2. Corporate surety is required if the anticipated aggregate prize value is greater than $15,000.