Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 7 - Municipalities › 185 - Operation of Bazaars and Raffles › Section 7-185-17b - Frog-race raffles

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Any sponsoring
			 organization qualified to conduct a bazaar or raffle may operate a frog-race
			 raffle once each calendar year. Such raffles shall conform to the provisions of
			 sections
			 7-170
			 to
			 7-186, inclusive, of the
			 Connecticut General Statutes, and the administrative regulations governing the
			 operation of bazaars and raffles adopted pursuant thereto.
(b) A frog-race raffle shall allow for the
			 sale of consecutively numbered tickets with correspondingly numbered stubs,
			 entitling the holders of such tickets to the temporary possession of an
			 artificial frog for purposes of the frog-race raffle.
(c) Each organization intending to sponsor or
			 conduct a frog-race raffle shall furnish with its application for a permit, a
			 diagram of a naturally moving stream of water, displaying the area to be
			 utilized for such raffle in which the numbered artificial frogs, each
			 corresponding to a numbered frog-race raffle ticket, will be utilized to
			 conduct the event.
(d) Each
			 organization conducting a frog-race raffle shall provide for a suitable natural
			 stream of water with a steady current on which the frog-race activity is to be
			 conducted. The finishing point of the frog-race raffle activity shall be
			 constructed so as to allow for the passage of one artificial frog at a time and
			 the area immediately beyond the finishing point shall be sufficiently enclosed
			 so as to confine all artificial frogs utilized in the conduct of the frog-race
			 raffle. The area shall be adequately marked so as to identify the starting
			 point and the finishing point of the frog-race raffle. The number of artificial
			 frogs to be utilized shall correspond to the number of frog-race raffle tickets
			 to be sold.
(e) The manner in which
			 winners in a frog-race raffle are determined shall be clearly stated prior to
			 the commencement of a frog-race raffle drawing and each sponsoring organization
			 shall conspicuously post an information board, prescribed by the executive
			 director, which shall display the water area to be utilized in the event and
			 the starting point and the finishing point of the frog-race raffle. Such
			 information board shall be posted at the location from which the frog-race
			 raffle is to be conducted.
(f) A
			 frog-race raffle shall commence at a designated time and shall continue until
			 all winners of authorized prizes have been determined.
(g) No person may guide, direct or handle any
			 artificial frog utilized in a frog-race raffle once the artificial frog has
			 been entered into the water area from which winners will be
			 determined.
(h) All artificial
			 frogs shall contain water proof numbers which have been conspicuously printed
			 on such artificial frogs, and all artificial frogs shall be identical as to
			 size, composition, weight, shape and balance, and as to all other
			 characteristics which may control their selection.
(i) All artificial frogs shall be present in
			 a receptacle before the frog-race raffle is started. An active designated
			 member, and no other person, shall place the artificial frogs into the
			 receptacle from which the artificial frogs are to be released. The active
			 designated member shall inspect each artificial frog prior to the start of the
			 frog-race raffle in order to ensure that a raffle ticket has been purchased for
			 each artificial frog to be placed into the receptacle, and that there is no
			 duplication of numbers on said artificial frogs, and to guard against the
			 inclusion of artificial frogs which are counterfeit or illegitimate.