Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 42 - LOUISIANA GAMING › Part I - Charitable Bingo, Keno, Raffle › Subpart 2 - Electronic Video Bingo › Chapter 19 - Electronic Video Bingo › Section I-1901 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. As used throughout this Chapter, the following
					 definitions apply.
Act
- the Charitable Raffles, Bingo and
					 Keno Licensing Law enacted as
					 R.S.
					 33:4861.1 et seq., together with
					 R.S.
					 40:1485.1 et seq., including all amendments
					 thereto that may hereafter be enacted.
Applicant
- the organization, its members,
					 officers, agents, or employees who have applied for any license from the
					 division.
Audit Copy
- an exact copy of each printed
					 ticket voucher.
Bona Fide, Active,
or
Volunteer
					 Member
- a person accepted for membership in an organization eligible
					 to be licensed under this Part upon application, with such action being
					 recorded in the official minutes of a regular meeting or who has held full and
					 regular membership status in the organization. The member functions shall not
					 be limited to gaming related activities.
Certain Related Offenses
- include the
					 following offenses committed contrary to the laws of this state, local
					 jurisdictions, other states, the federal government, or other countries:
a. any felony offense;
b. any offense directly or indirectly related to gambling
					 or gaming laws;
c. the misdemeanor offense of any theft or related offense,
					 any attempted theft or related offense, issuing worthless checks, illegal
					 possession of stolen things, or false swearing or related offense.
Charitable Gaming
- the conducting or
					 assisting in the conducting of any game of chance authorized by
					 R.S.
					 33:4861.1 et seq., and
					 R.S.
					 40:1485.1 et seq.
Charitable Gaming Supplies
- any supplies
					 (except raffle tickets), equipment, device, goods or wares intended for use in
					 the conducting of any charitable gaming provided by law. It includes, but is
					 not limited to, the receptacle and numbered objects to be drawn from it, the
					 master board upon which the objects drawn are placed, the cards or sheets
					 bearing numbers or other designations to be covered and the objects used to
					 cover them, the boards or signs, however operated, used to announce or display
					 the number or designation as they are drawn, and all other articles essential
					 to the operation, conducting and playing of bingo, keno, pull tabs or raffles.
					 It also includes any computer system, software or cash register designed for
					 the primary purpose of accounting for and reporting the transactions involved
					 in the selling of share or shares to participate in charitable gaming. Bingo
					 game sets commonly manufactured and sold as children's games for a retail price
					 of $20 or less shall be presumed not to be bingo equipment for these purposes
					 unless used by a licensee in the licensee's gaming activity.
Commercial Location-
a building, structure
					 or premises owned, leased, rented or otherwise controlled by a commercial
					 lessor.
Department
- the Louisiana Department of
					 Public Safety and Corrections and shall include the Division of Charitable
					 Gaming Control of the Office of State Police, Louisiana Department of Public
					 Safety and Corrections.
Director
- the commissioned state trooper
					 of sufficient rank designated by the deputy secretary to head the
					 division.
Division
- the Division of Charitable
					 Gaming Control, Office of State Police, Louisiana Department of Public Safety
					 and Corrections.
Electronic Video Bingo
- the game of bingo
					 as defined by Louisiana law when offered by a machine utilizing video images
					 and a random number generator rather than objects drawn from a receptacle and
					 cards.
EPROM
- an erasable and programmable
					 read-only memory.
Expenses
- ordinary, necessary and
					 reasonable costs incurred in preparation for or in the conduct of the gaming
					 activity (expenses are further clarified in §1747).
Ideal Net Proceeds
- the projected gross
					 amount to be collected upon sale of all pull tabs in a set or deal
					 minus:
a. the actual cost of the pull tabs to the organization;
					 and
b. the projected total amount of prizes or winnings in the
					 set or deal.
Immediate Family
- subject individual's
					 spouse, children, parents, brothers and sisters, spouses of children, and
					 spouses of brother and sisters.
Licensee
- any organization licensed to
					 conduct charitable gaming activity pursuant to
					 R.S.
					 33:4861.1 et seq., and R.S. 40: 1485.l et
					 seq., or licensed as a manufacturer or distributor of charitable gaming
					 supplies, manufacturer or distributor of electronic video bingo machines,
					 commercial lessors, or licensed as a private contractor for cable television
					 bingo.
Logic
- a digital integrated
					 circuit.
Machine
- an electrically or electronically
					 operated device designed for the playing of electronic video bingo.
Net Win
- the sum obtained by subtracting
					 total coins in minus the total amount paid out on ticket vouchers tendered for
					 cash money.
Noncommercial Lessor
- a bona fide
					 nonprofit organization licensed by the division to conduct games of chance,
					 which leases any building or structure used for charitable gaming to other
					 organizations licensed by the division.
Noncommercial Location
- a building,
					 structure or premises owned or occupied by a noncommercial lessor; the
					 principal activities at the location shall be the meeting of members and the
					 conducting of affairs of the nonprofit organization.
Pal
- a programmable array logic.
Patriotic
- in addition to any other
					 commonly accepted meaning, an organization whose membership is composed of
					 veterans of the United States of America Military to include without
					 limitation, United States Army, United States Air Force, United States Marines,
					 United States Navy, and United States Coast Guard, and said organization has
					 acquired an appropriate nonprofit designation issued by the Federal Internal
					 Revenue Service with its registered office and/or place of domicile in the
					 state of Louisiana, or an auxiliary organization to such a veterans'
					 organization.
Payout
- the number of credits won by the
					 players, whether used to play additional games or collected on a ticket
					 voucher, in proportion to the Act of cash and credit wagered.
Permit Stamp
- an exterior decal issued by
					 the division which authorizes a specific machine to be operated as an
					 electronic video bingo machine.
Permit Stamp Fee
- the amount paid by the
					 permittee to the division for each machine permitted.
Permittee
- a licensed distributor or
					 charitable organization that owns and operates a permitted electronic video
					 bingo machine in this state.
Private Contractor
- a firm or person
					 possessing demonstrated skills in the conduct and administration of charitable
					 games of chance, and licensed by the division to provide for the operation and
					 management of cable television bingo, and any employee or agent of such firm or
					 person.
Prom
- programmable read-only
					 memory.
Promotional Game
- any game, contest, or
					 arrangement used by any entity in order to stimulate sales or attendance, where
					 absolutely no purchase or fee is necessary in order to participate in or win
					 the game, contest or event.
Pull Tab
or
Charity Game
					 Ticket
- a single or banded ticket or card with its face covered to
					 conceal one or more numbers or symbols where one or more cards or tickets in
					 each set has been designated in advance as a winner.
Pull Tab Set
or
Deal
- any
					 form, series or group of pull tabs having the sand serial number.
Raffle
- a type of lottery in which several
					 persons pay, in shares, the value of something put up as a stake, and then
					 determine by chance which one of them shall become the sole possessor of it and
					 any portion or share is retained by the person(s) conducting the raffle.
Reasonable Market Rental Rate
- that rate
					 at which similar facilities or equipment available for similar purposes, in the
					 city may be leased or rented.
Session
- represents authorized games of
					 chance played within a time limit of four consecutive hours, within the same
					 calendar day, with a minimum of 12 hours between sessions. The four-hour
					 session limit shall not apply to sessions held in conjunction with a bona fide
					 fair or festival on property where no rent is paid for the session and payout
					 of prizes is determined by the number of persons playing. Sessions are limited
					 to not more than one session per day per licensee. In no instance, shall the
					 total prize amounts exceed $4,500 per session without a special license. A
					 session of keno or bingo, when the licensee possesses a special license is
					 limited to six consecutive hours.
Special License
- a license to conduct one
					 bingo session where the total prize amount shall not exceed $25,000 in cash or
					 things of equal value. No organization shall be issued more than two special
					 licenses a year.
Ticket Voucher
- a printed ticket which is
					 tendered to the player at the completion of game play for remaining credits on
					 the machine; the voucher is redeemable for cash money.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Adopted in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 40:1485.4 and
					 R.S.
					 33:4861.17.