New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle T - New York State Gaming Commission › Chapter II - Division of Charitable Gaming › Subchapter E - BINGO CONDUCT OF GAMES, HEARINGS AND APPEALS › Part 4820 - General Conduct Of Bingo › Section 4820.14 - Price of bingo cards

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) All
					 opportunities to play, including admission cards, extra regular cards, special
					 game cards, packages of opportunities, supercards, early bird cards, pre-drawn
					 bingo cards, player select cards, quick bingo cards and, where applicable,
					 limited period bingo cards, shall be assigned a specific price, shall be sold
					 for that price only and that price shall not be varied during any occasion. All
					 such opportunities shall be sold only within the building or place in which
					 bingo is conducted. All such opportunities for a bingo occasion shall be sold
					 only on the same day of the occasion and only immediately prior to and during
					 the conduct of the occasion and in accordance with the provisions of section
					 4820.13 of this Part. Every package
					 of opportunities shall be sold as a unit and no single opportunity forming a
					 part of such unit shall be sold individually, except with respect to admission
					 cards sold pursuant to section
					 4820.8 of this Part, unless the
					 single opportunities correspond with, but are clearly different and readily
					 distinguishable from, those opportunities comprising such package. A list shall
					 be posted where the admission cards are sold setting forth the specific price
					 of each such opportunity or package of opportunities. The price of each
					 opportunity bearing the same number of face-cards per card or sheet, whether
					 they be in the form of hard-boards, disposable cards or electronic bingo aid
					 images, shall be identical to each other and shall be conspicuously posted and
					 listed on the licensed authorized organization's bingo program required under
					 section 4820.39 of this Part. The sale of
					 such opportunities at any price other than that posted and listed on the bingo
					 program is prohibited. The price for a 1-on face-card to participate in an
					 early bird game shall not exceed $1. Early bird opportunities bearing more than
					 one face-card may be priced at the discretion of the licensed authorized
					 organization, provided 1-on early bird cards are simultaneously offered for
					 sale at a price of $1, or less. A sign posted where supercards are sold shall
					 set forth the price of each supercard opportunity and the amount or odds of
					 each payout. The price per supercard shall not exceed $10. In the case of
					 limited period bingo, not more than 25 cents shall be charged for a single
					 opportunity to participate in any one game and no person shall purchase more
					 than five opportunities at any one time to participate in any one
					 game.
(b) Opportunities to
					 participate in both occasions of a double-header or all three occasions of a
					 triple-header, respectively, may be offered for sale as a package of
					 opportunities, provided the licensed authorized organization separately
					 identifies the opportunities sold during each of the occasions on the bingo
					 program, offers the sale of opportunities to participate in each occasion
					 separately upon request, offers the sale of admission cards separately, and
					 accounts for such opportunities separately on its financial statements of bingo
					 operations.
(c) Opportunities to
					 participate in tiered bingo games in which the cost of opportunities or
					 packages of opportunities and the dollar amounts of the prizes to be awarded
					 are proportionately higher per tier, may be offered for sale under the
					 following restrictions:
(1) each tier of
					 bingo opportunities or packages of opportunities shall be readily
					 distinguishable from the opportunities and packages of opportunities sold for
					 all other tiers, and no two identical series of tiered bingo opportunities
					 shall be sold during the same bingo session;
(2) the aggregate of the tiered prizes
					 awarded in any single game shall not exceed the amount set forth in General
					 Municipal Law sections 479(5) and 481(1)(a) and the aggregate of tiered bingo
					 games shall not cause the series of prizes to exceed the amount set forth in
					 General Municipal Law sections 479(6) and 481(1)(a);
(3) when it is determined that there are
					 multiple winners in the same game but in different tiers, the winner in each
					 tier shall be awarded the dollar amount for the prize scheduled for that tier,
					 divided by the total number of winners in all tiers for that game. For example,
					 if there are two winners on the first tier and three winners on the second
					 tier, the two winners on the first tier each will be awarded one-fifth of the
					 dollar amount for the prize for the first tier and the remaining three winners
					 will each receive one-fifth of the dollar amount for the prize for the second
					 tier; and
(4) no more than four
					 tiers of prizes shall be offered per bingo occasion.