Section 20-357. Exemption from prosecution

No person or corporation: (a)
  Lawfully conducting, or participating in the conduct of bingo, or
    (b) Permitting the conduct upon any premises owned or leased  by  him,
  her  or it under any license lawfully issued pursuant to this subchapter
  and article fourteen-H of the general municipal law, shall be liable  to
  prosecution  or conviction for violation of any provision of article one
  hundred thirty of the penal law or any other law  or  ordinance  to  the
  extent  that  such conduct is specifically authorized by this subchapter
  or article fourteen-H of the general municipal law,  but  this  immunity
  shall  not  extend  to any person or corporation knowingly conducting or
  participating in the conduct of any game  of  bingo  under  any  license
  obtained  by  any  false  pretense or by any false statement made in any
  application for license or otherwise, or permitting the conduct upon any
  premises owned or leased by  him,  her  or  it  of  any  game  of  bingo
  conducted  under  any  license  known  to  him,  her  or it to have been
  obtained by any such false pretense or statement.