Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 820 - PUBLIC PROTECTION CABINET - DEPARTMENT OF CHARITABLE GAMING › Chapter 1 - Charitable Gaming › Section 820 KAR 1:042 - Bingo

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO: KRS 238.515, 238.530, 238.545
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS 238.515 authorizes the
				Department of Charitable Gaming to establish and enforce reasonable standards
				for the conduct of charitable gaming and to promulgate administrative
				regulations necessary to carry out the purposes and intent of KRS Chapter 238.
				This administrative regulation establishes standards for the construction and
				distribution of bingo paper, the construction and distribution of bingo
				equipment including card-minding devices, and the conduct of bingo play.
Section 1. Definitions.
(1) "Bingo ball" means a ball imprinted with
			 numbers and letters that is used in the selection process of a bingo
			 game.
(2) "Bingo machine" means:
(a) A type of selection device with:
1. A receptacle for unselected bingo
			 balls;
2. A blower for selecting;
			 and
3. A ball tray that contains
			 seventy-five (75) holes in which to place the ball once it is called;
			 or
(b) A generator that
			 randomly selects the balls and displays them on the face of the
			 device.
(3) "Bingo paper
			 pack" means a group of bingo paper sheets that are manufactured, collated, and
			 sold by the manufacturer as a unit.
(4) "Bingo paper package" means a group of
			 bingo paper sheets or packs that are assembled together by a charitable
			 organization for sale at a charitable gaming session that becomes a unique item
			 for sale with a specific price.
(5)
			 "Bingo paper sheet" means a single piece of paper on which one (1) or multiple
			 bingo faces are printed.
(6) "Break
			 open bingo" means a bingo game in which the numbers on the face are hidden
			 until after purchase.
(7) "Bundle"
			 means to price a certain amount of bingo paper faces for a certain price with
			 the patron choosing the type of packs that make up the total faces.
(8) "Called" means that a number located on a
			 bingo ball has been:
(a) Selected by the
			 selection device;
(b) Verbally
			 announced by the caller;
(c)
			 Displayed on the flashboard or other device; and
(d) Placed in a ball tray or otherwise
			 continuously displayed until completion of the bingo game.
(9) "Continuation game" means a multipart
			 bingo game in which more than one (1) game with more than one (1) pattern may
			 be played on one (1) bingo paper sheet.
(10) "Covered" means daubed or smeared with
			 indelible ink if using a disposable paper bingo face, or marked electronically
			 if using a card-minding device.
(11) "Disposable paper bingo face" means a
			 non-reusable bingo face assembled in a single sheet, multiple face sheet, pad,
			 or pack form.
(12) "Face" means a
			 paper or an electronic representation containing:
(a) Five (5) rows of five (5) squares with
			 numbers or symbols;
(b) A free
			 center space;
(c) The letters "B",
			 "I", "N", "G", "O" printed in order over the five (5) columns; and
(d) A unique perm number identifying each
			 face.
(13) "Fixed-base
			 card-minding device" means a computer system, not necessarily manufactured by a
			 licensed manufacturer, that has been loaded with proprietary software by a
			 licensed manufacturer to enable it to function as a card-minding
			 device.
(14) "Flashboard" or
			 "display board" means a board that displays the bingo numbers called.
(15) "Hand-held card-minding device" means a
			 hand-held computer that is either manufactured or customized by the
			 manufacturer to operate as a card-minding device.
(16) "Hard card" means a reusable card
			 bearing a bingo face or faces.
(17)
			 "Perm number" means the number located on a bingo face that identifies the
			 unique pattern of numbers appearing on that face.
(18) "Pickle jar, bonanza ball, or hot ball"
			 means games played in conjunction with other bingo games in which:
(a) A bingo ball is selected by the selection
			 device prior to the start of certain bingo games or all bingo games;
			 and
(b) A patron is awarded the
			 amount of money associated with the pickle jar, bonanza ball, or hot ball, if
			 the selected bingo ball is called, and because of that selected ball being
			 called, a patron wins the bingo game being played.
(19) "Player pick bingo" means that the
			 patron picks the numbers that constitute a bingo on his face or faces and a
			 machine prints those numbers on the bingo face at the charitable gaming session
			 before the game is played.
(20)
			 "Progressive bingo" means a bingo game in which the value of the prize is
			 carried forward to the next bingo session if no player wins at that
			 session.
(21) "Selected" means a
			 bingo number that has been obtained by the selection device and is ready to be
			 called next by the bingo caller.
(22) "Selection device" means a device that:
(a) May be operated manually or
			 automatically; and
(b) Is used to
			 randomly select bingo numbers.
(23) "Selection pool" means the bingo numbers
			 in a selection device that have not been selected.
(24) "Series number" means the number of
			 unique faces contained in a series.
(25) "Set" means a case or cases of paper
			 that contain one (1) of each face in a series.
(26) "Verification system" means a book of
			 bingo faces compiled by the manufacturer or an electronic device created by the
			 manufacturer that:
(a) Lists the unique
			 patterns of numbers on each face by perm number; and
(b) Is used to verify the authenticity of a
			 winning face.