Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 7 - Municipalities › 185 - Operation of Bazaars and Raffles › Section 7-185-16b - Duck-race raffles

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Any sponsoring
			 organization qualified to conduct a bazaar or raffle may operate a duck-race
			 raffle once each calendar year. Such raffles shall conform to the provisions of
			 sections
			 7-170
			 to
			 7-186, inclusive, of the
			 general statutes, and the administrative regulations governing the operation of
			 bazaars and raffles adopted pursuant thereto.
(b) A duck-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 duck for purposes of the duck-race raffle.
(c) Each organization intending to sponsor or
			 conduct a duck-race raffle shall furnish with its application for a permit, a
			 diagram of a natural stream of water, displaying the area to be utilized for
			 such raffle in which the numbered artificial ducks, each corresponding to a
			 numbered duck-race raffle ticket, will be utilized to conduct the
			 event.
(d) Each organization
			 conducting a duck-race raffle shall provide for a suitable natural stream of
			 water with a steady current on which the duck-race activity is to be conducted.
			 The finishing point of the duck-race raffle activity shall be constructed so as
			 to allow for the passage of one artificial duck at a time and the area
			 immediately beyond the finishing point shall be sufficiently enclosed so as to
			 confine all artificial ducks utilized in the conduct of the duck-race raffle.
			 The area shall be adequately marked so as to identify the starting point and
			 the finishing point of the duck-race raffle. The number of artificial ducks to
			 be utilized shall correspond to the number of duck-race raffle tickets to be
			 sold.
(e) The manner in which
			 winners in a duck-race raffle are determined shall be clearly stated prior to
			 the commencement of a duck-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 duck-race raffle. Such
			 information board shall be posted at the location from which the duck-race
			 raffle is to be conducted.
(f) A
			 duck-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 duck utilized in a duck-race raffle once the artificial duck has
			 been entered into the water area from which winners will be
			 determined.
(h) All artificial
			 ducks shall contain water proof numbers which have been conspicuously printed
			 on such artificial ducks, and all artificial ducks 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 ducks shall be present in
			 a receptacle before the duck-race raffle is started. An active designated
			 member, and no other person, shall place the artificial ducks into the
			 receptacle from which the artificial ducks are to be released. The active
			 designated member shall inspect each artificial duck prior to the start of the
			 duck-race raffle in order to ensure that a raffle ticket has been purchased for
			 each artificial duck to be placed into the receptacle, and that there is no
			 duplication of numbers on said artificial ducks, and to guard against the
			 inclusion of artificial ducks which are counterfeit or illegitimate.