Sec 5-409. Forfeiture of license; ineligibility to apply for license; classification

Any person who knowingly makes any false statement in any application for any license pursuant to this article or in any statement annexed to the application or fails to keep sufficient books and records to substantiate the financial reports required under section 5-407 or knowingly falsifies any books or records so far as they relate to any transaction connected with the holding, operating and conducting of any game of bingo under any license or violates any of the provisions of this article or of any term of a license is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor and shall, if convicted, in addition to suffering any other penalties which may be imposed, forfeit any license issued to it pursuant to this article and shall be ineligible to apply for a license pursuant to this article for at least five years thereafter.