Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 13 - Gaming › Part 10 - CHARITABLE GAMING › Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS › Rule 13-10-1.1 - Definitions

Current through June 25, 2024
The terms defined in the Mississippi Gaming Control Act have
				  the same meaning in these rules as in the Charitable Bingo Law unless otherwise
				  indicated. As used in these rules, the following terms have the following
				  meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
(a) "Act" means the Charitable Bingo Law,
				Sections
				97-33-51
				through
				97-33-81,
				97-33-101
				through
				97-33-109,
				97-33-201
				and
				97-33-203,
				Mississippi Code of 1972.
(b)
				"Adjusted Gross Receipts" means all revenue remaining from bingo operations
				after payment of prizes and payment of fees required by the
				Commission.
(c) "Alternate
				Supervisor" means the person who is designated to supervise all activities and
				be responsible for the conduct of all games of a particular session in the
				absence of the bingo supervisor.
(d) "Applicant" means the organization, its
				members, officers, agents, or employees who have applied for any license from
				the Commission.
(e) "Automatic
				marking" means that numbers are marked on electronic card faces without a need
				for interaction by the participant. The only input required by the automatic
				marking functionality is by means of the calling system. The participant loads
				cards by input of the receipt number and/or the control number (a number
				identifying the cards sold to that player).
(f) "Bingo" means a game of chance in which a
				right to participate is sold to a player and prizes are awarded, that is:
1. Played with a card, sheet, or an
				electronic representation thereof, bearing numbers or symbols;
2. Played with the participant covering,
				marking or revealing the numbers or symbols, as objects similarly numbered or
				designated are drawn from a receptacle and orally called; in the case of
				electronic representations, the requisite covering, marking or revealing may be
				accomplished electronically to match objects similarly numbered or designated
				and stored in memory in advance as winners, or which are generated randomly by
				an electronic process;
3. Won by
				the player who first covers, marks or reveals a previously designated
				arrangement of numbers or symbols; and
4. Played on the premises leased or owned by
				a licensed charitable organization and during the bingo location's regular
				hours of conducting bingo games.
5.
				The term "bingo" includes pull-tabs made available as a companion game to bingo
				and played on the premises. The term "bingo" does not include any game which is
				played via television, telephone, satellite dish or any other
				telecommunications transmission or receiving device.
6. Any electronic device used to produce an
				electronic representation of a pull-tab must maintain an inventory recorded in
				computed memory, not on cartridge memory, of the numbers of winners and losers.
				It must also be equipped with tamper-proof electric meters as a backup to the
				computer memory. It may not dispense cash or coins. Paybacks will be dispensed
				by printed ticket only. The printer shall maintain duplicate records of all
				transactions on paper, electronic file located within the sealed logic area or
				on web-based software. All such electronic pull-tab devices shall be approved
				by the Commission. Nothing herein shall prohibit the use of non-volatile memory
				devices that possess the ability to be checked for program integrity to a 99.9%
				level of competence at the site of the location owner by the Commission
				utilizing limited specialized equipment. Such non-volatile devices (other than
				standard EPROMs) shall be submitted to the Commission for final
				approval.
7. Other than those games
				as authorized by statute, bingo does not include a game whereby the player
				contributes to a pot and if such player wins a bingo game on a predetermined
				number that person wins, in addition to the regular prize, the contents of the
				pot. No other type game or raffle in which a person makes any wager on the
				chance of winning any prize may be offered or held in connection with the
				authorized bingo games as described in this section. Violation of this
				subsection may result in suspension and/or revocation of the charitable
				organization's bingo license.