The new law will officially allow games involving raffles, bell jars, merchandise wheels, coin boards, seal cards and merchandise boards used to raise money for charities, education, science or health-related causes, churches or synagogues, or “patriotic causes” within town boundaries.

The law was adopted by the town council in 2019, but the town missed the cutoff for it to appear on the ballot that November. It also didn’t appear on the ballot last year, but reappeared on the ballot this year.

Any organization that wants to host a game of chance for fundraising will need to first obtain a license from the state Gaming Commission, and that license would then be approved or rejected by the town. Though games of chance will be allowed on Sundays, they will be off-limits on Easter Sunday, Christmas and New Year’s Eve.