Arizona Administrative Code › Title 15 - REVENUE › Chapter 7 - Department of Revenue - Bingo Section › Article 2 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section R15-7-201 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
In addition to the definitions provided in A.R.S. §
									5-401, unless the
				  context requires otherwise, the following definitions apply to this Chapter and
				  to A.R.S. Title 5, Chapter 4:
"Bingo" means a game of chance in which a prize is awarded to
				  a player who obtains a designated pattern or sequence of numbers or symbols on
				  a card that are the same as the pattern or sequence of numbers or symbols
				  selected at random. When placed in quotation marks, "bingo" means the
				  designated pattern or sequence of numbers or symbols needed to win a bingo
				  game.
"Bingo worker" means a manager, supervisor, proceeds
				  coordinator, or assistant who is participating in any manner in the holding,
				  operating, or conducting of the bingo occasion.
"Books and records" means documents relating to the financial
				  affairs of an organization kept in the organization's regular course of
				  business and include the following:
Bank account records,
Journals and ledgers,
Receipts and invoices,
Winner signature sheets,
Verification reports required under
				  R15-7-225,
Game programs, and
Any other documents used in connection with bingo
				  operations.
"Calendar week" means seven days, beginning at 12:00:01 a.m.
				  Sunday and ending midnight Saturday, Arizona time.
"Caller" means the person calling the bingo balls at an
				  occasion.
"Card" means a device of bingo play such as a sheet of paper
				  that is provided by a licensee to a player before the start of a game, that
				  bears parallel rows of spaces with each space, except a designated "free"
				  space, containing numbers or symbols, and that is part of a deck, group, or
				  series of cards, no two of which are alike. A space on a card may contain a
				  preprinted pattern in addition to a number or symbol.
"Cover-all" means a bingo game in which the designated bingo
				  pattern is all spaces on a card.
"Day" means a 24-hour period beginning at 12:00:01 a.m.
				  Arizona time and ending at 12:00:00 p.m.
"Department" means the Arizona Department of Revenue.
"Door prize" means a type of inducement in which a prize is
				  given to an individual, selected at random, who is present on the premises
				  during a bingo occasion.
"Inducement" means:
Anything of value given to a person at a bingo occasion,
				  other than a prize awarded for obtaining "bingo"; or
The sale of anything to a person at a bingo occasion for less
				  than its fair market value.
"Player" means an individual, 18 years of age or older, who
				  pays the admission fee, if any, to be admitted to the premises and who plays
				  one or more cards.
"Proprietary, equitable, or credit interest" includes any
				  arrangement in which a person has:
A security interest or lien that is attached to any property
				  of a licensee,
A right to sell or lease to a licensee, or
A right to reacquire property sold to a licensee.
"Receptacle" means a container, such as a blower and cage,
				  that holds the bingo balls or objects used in bingo games.
"Special bonus game" means a series of bingo games, played on
				  the same day of each week during a calendar quarter, with a quarterly prize
				  limit of $12,000.
"Split-the-pot" means a bingo game in which the prize is a
				  portion of the money received from card sales.
"Wild number bingo" means a game of bingo in which a ball is
				  drawn from a receptacle or selected using another random method to determine
				  all wild numbers for a game and all wild numbers are deemed called.
"Winner-take-all" means a game of bingo in which the prize is
				  all money received from card sales.