The Legislature finds and declares the following:
- (a) Nonprofit organizations provide important and necessary services to the people of the State of California with respect to educational and social services and there is a need to provide methods of fundraising to nonprofit organizations so as to enable them to meet their stated purposes.
- (b) The playing of controlled games for the purpose of raising funds by nonprofit organizations is in the public interest.
- (c) Uniform regulation for the conduct of controlled games is in the best interests of nonprofit organizations and the people of this state.