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Oklahoma Charity Games
Oklahoma Charitable Gaming Law
§3A-401. Short title - Purpose - Findings.
A. Sections 2 through 28 of this act shall be known and may be cited as the "Oklahoma Charity Games Act ".
The Legislature finds that it is in the interest of the health, welfare, and safety of the citizens of the State of Oklahoma that games of chance offered to the public by other than charitable organizations which are commonly referred to as "commercial bingo " or "commercial operations " are hereby prohibited in this state.
The Legislature further finds that offering to the public certain types of games of chance including but not limited to games commonly referred to as bingo games and other types of instant winner games by other than a licensed organization is declared to be a "commercial operation" and is in violation of the law.
1. "Bingo " means a game in which each player receives a bingo face and covers the squares according to the numbers, letters, or combination of numbers and letters that have been announced by the caller. The numbers and letters called are on an object selected at random either manually or mechanically from a receptacle in which have been placed the objects bearing the numbers, letters, or combinations of numbers and letters corresponding to the system used for designating the bingo face squares. The winner of each bingo game is the player who first properly covers a predetermined and announced pattern of squares upon the bingo face being used by the player;
2. "Bingo face " means a flat piece of paper which is marked off into any number of squares in any arrangement of rows, with each square being designated by number, letter or combination of numbers and letters and with one or more squares designated as a "free" space with the word "Oklahoma" and a facsimile outline of a map of Oklahoma in it, which cannot be reused after the game in which a player has used it is over;
3. "Breakopen ticket card " means a single folded or banded ticket or a card, the face of which is initially covered or otherwise hidden from view to conceal a number, letter, symbol, or set of letters or symbols, a few of which numbers, letters or symbols out of every set of charity game tickets have been designated in advance at random as prize winners and which is used in a breakopen ticket game;
4. "Breakopen ticket game " means a game wherein a player receives a breakopen ticket card. A breakopen ticket game shall meet the following criteria:
5. "Business entity" means a person, company, corporation, or partnership organized for profit;
6. "Charity game" means a bingo game, U-PIK-EM bingo game, or breakopen ticket game conducted by an organization pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Charity Games Act;
7. "Charity game equipment " means any object uniquely designed for use in the conducting of a charity game including, but not limited to, bingo faces, U-PIK-EM bingo game sets, and breakopen ticket cards. Items used in conducting charity games which are not charity game equipment are ink markers, furniture and general furnishings of rooms where charity games are conducted;
8. "Commission " or "ABLE Commission " means the Alcoholic Beverage Laws Enforcement Commission;
9. "Day session " means the set time frame within which conducting of charity games is authorized beginning no earlier than 10:00 a.m. and ending no later than 5:00 p.m.;
10. "Deal " means one series of breakopen ticket game cards which has a stated number of winner payouts and a stated amount of the payouts;
11. "Distributor " means a person or business entity that sells, markets, or otherwise provides charity game equipment to an organization;
12. "Doing business " means either conducting a charity game by an organization or providing goods or services to an organization by a business entity;
13. "Employee " means a person who works for compensation in a licensed charity game establishment;
14. "Immediate family member " means a spouse, parent, child or sibling or spouse of a parent, child or sibling of a resident of a facility exempt from specific provisions of the Oklahoma Charity Games Act as provided in subsection C of Section 405 of this title;
15. "Licensee " means any person, organization, or business entity which has received a license from the Commission;
16. "Location " means the building, including the individual rooms and equipment in the rooms, grounds, and appurtenances, including adjacent premises if subject to the direct or indirect control of the organization while conducting a charity game, which are used in connection with or in furtherance of the conducting of a charity game;
17. "Manager " means a person who:
18. "Manufacturer " means a person or business entity that assembles from raw materials, supplies, or subparts to form a completed series of charity game equipment for use in charity games and that sells, markets, or otherwise provides such equipment to a distributor;
19. "Night session " means the set time frame within which conducting of charity games is authorized beginning no earlier than 5:00 p.m. and ending no later than 12:00 p.m. midnight;
20. "Organization " means a religious, charitable, labor, fraternal, educational, or other type of association or any branch, lodge, chapter, or auxiliary of such association which:
21. "Progressive game " means a game in which prizes are allowed to be carried over and increased from session to session;
22. "U-PIK-EM bingo game " means a game played wherein a player writes the numbers on a U-PIK-EM bingo game set. The player retains one sheet of the set and deposits the second sheet in a receptacle in the control of the organization. The player then covers the numbers as the caller announces a number. The numbers called are on an object selected at random either manually or mechanically from a receptacle in which have been placed the objects bearing the numbers. The winner of each U-PIK-EM bingo game is the player who first covers all the numbers appearing on the retained sheet in accordance with the pattern as designated on the sheet; and
23. "U-PIK-EM bingo game set " means two paper sheets of carbonless paper both bearing identical serial numbers on which a player writes numbers or letters, wherein one sheet is retained by the player and used for playing and one sheet is held by the organization and used for verifying winners.
§3A-403. Licensing authority - Administration and enforcement of act - Powers and duties of Commission.
§3A-404. Licenses - When issuance prohibited - Transfer, sale, lease or assignment prohibited - Initial and renewal fees.
1. Organization License - One Hundred Dollars ($100.00);
2. Distributor License - Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00);
3. Manufacturer License - Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000.00);
4. Employee License - Fifteen Dollars ($15.00); and
5. Manager License - Fifty Dollars ($50.00).
§3A-405. Limited charity game activities - Exemptions.
C. Any hospital, nursing home, residential care facility, senior citizens' center, retirement center or convalescent facility which conducts charity games at such facilities on a regular basis for the residents or regular patrons of the facility and their immediate family members may obtain an exemption from specific provisions of the Oklahoma Charity Games Act as provided in this section. Such exemption shall be obtained by the filing of a verified application with the Commission signed by the owner or supervisor of the facility and containing the following information:
1. The name and address of the hospital, nursing home, residential care facility, senior citizens' center, retirement center or convalescent facility;
3. A statement that said facility shall conduct charity games at the specified facility for the residents or regular patrons of the facility and their immediate family members. Provided, the prizes awarded either in cash or any other thing of value shall not exceed Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) in any one (1) day at any such hospital, nursing home, residential care facility, senior citizens' center, retirement center or convalescent facility.
D. Any hospital, nursing home, residential care facility, senior citizens' center, retirement center or convalescent facility which conducts charity games at such facilities on a regular basis for the residents or regular patrons of the facility or their immediate family members which has obtained an exemption from the Commission shall not:
§3A-407. Refusal to issue, denial of renewal, suspension, or revocation of any license - Penalty schedule.
§3A-408. Organization license - Application.
§3A-409. Distributor license - Application.
§3A-410. Manufacturer license - Application.
§3A-411. Notice of intention to apply for license - Notice of application to local authorities.
§3A-414. Licensee records - Reports.
B. Distributors shall market, sell, or supply charity game equipment in this state only to an organization, exempt organization, exempt hospital, nursing home, residential care facility, senior citizens' center, retirement center or convalescent facility, entity of the United States government, federally recognized Indian tribe or nation or other licensed distributor.
1. By selling the equipment or giving it away to another organization, an exempt organization, or exempt hospital, nursing home, residential care facility, senior citizens' center, retirement center or convalescent facility; or
B. Except as provided in subsection D of this section, there is hereby levied upon each breakopen ticket game sold in this state a tax in the amount of ten percent (10%) on the gross receipts of the retail sales value to be paid by the distributor. For purposes of this subsection, "gross receipts of the retail sales value" means the stated retail per breakopen ticket price multiplied by the number of tickets in each packaging container of breakopen tickets.
1. A veterans' organization exempt from taxation pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (4), (7), (8), (10) or (19) of subsection (c) of Section 501 of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, 26 U.S.C., Section 501(c) et seq.; or
§3A-425. Cease and desist orders - Injunctions - Restraining orders - Administrative fines.
§3A-426. Bingo faces, game sets, or breakopen ticket cards declared contraband - Confiscation, forfeiture, and destruction.
1. Purchased by an exempt organization, exempt hospital, nursing home, residential care facility, senior citizens' center, retirement center or convalescent facility;
3. Sold or given by a licensed organization to another licensed organization, an exempt organization, or exempt hospital, nursing home, residential care facility, senior citizens' center, retirement center or convalescent facility, if written permission is obtained from the Director of the ABLE Commission and proper notification is given to the Oklahoma Tax Commission.
3. The court clerk shall give the owner of the alleged contraband fourteen (14) calendar days' written notice of the hearing on the request for the order for destruction; and
§3A-427. Unexpired licenses issued by district court clerk - Inventory of game equipment in possession of applicant prior to December 31, 1992 - Rules.