2023 Michigan Compiled Laws › Chapter 285 - Agriculture › Act 361 of 1978 - Michigan Exposition and Fairgrounds Authority Act (285.161 - 285.176) › Section 285.172 - Annual State Fair; Licensing Agreements With Concessionaires Permitting Games of Skill; Criteria; Rules; Grounds for Revocation of Licensing Agreement; Hearing; Rules and Facilities for Bingo or Millionaire Party.

285.172 Annual state fair; licensing agreements with concessionaires permitting games of skill; criteria; rules; grounds for revocation of licensing agreement; hearing; rules and facilities for bingo or millionaire party.
Sec. 12.
(1) In staging the annual state fair, the authority may enter into licensing agreements with concessionaires permitting games of skill which shall be conducted in accordance with the following criteria:
(a) Winning the game of skill does not require great skill on the part of the participant.
(b) The game does not constitute a fraud upon the participants.
(c) The game is not similar to games of chance in which winning depends primarily upon fortuitous or accidental circumstances beyond the control of the participant including games such as roulette, beano, cards, dice, or wheels of fortune and the game does not include a mechanical or physical device that directly or indirectly impedes, impairs, or thwarts the skill of the player.
(d) If the game is a group or contest participation game, each participant shall be in attendance at the time the game is played and shall actively participate throughout the entire game by personally designating his or her target, goal, or desired objective. A winner shall be determined by the skill of 1 or more of the participants in the group or contest game, and each participant shall be randomly selected. The distribution of prizes shall be made in the presence of each participant at the time the game is played.
(e) The prize has nominal value and is not redeemable or convertible into cash, directly or indirectly.
(2) The department may promulgate rules pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328, consistent with the criteria established in subsection (1) to regulate the conduct of games of skill during the annual state fair and to protect the public from unauthorized or dishonest practices in conducting those games.
(3) The department may, after an administrative hearing held pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328, revoke the licensing agreement of a concessionaire if the department determines that the public is being defrauded, or that this act or a rule promulgated pursuant to this act is being violated.
(4) The department may promulgate rules pursuant to the administrative procedures act of 1969, 1969 PA 306, MCL 24.201 to 24.328, to permit the operation of a bingo or a millionaire party permitted and licensed under the Traxler-McCauley-Law-Bowman bingo act, 1972 PA 382, MCL 432.101 to 432.120. The authority may lease facilities as a location within or at which an organization qualified and licensed under that act may conduct bingo or a millionaire party.
History:
1978, Act 361, Imd. Eff. July 22, 1978 ;-- Am. 2004, Act 468, Eff. Mar. 1, 2005