Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 137 - DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE › Division 25 - BINGO/RAFFLES/MONTE CARLO › Section 137-025-0020 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
For purposes of these rules, the following definitions shall
				apply:
(1) The "Department" means the
			 Oregon Department of Justice.
(2)
			 "Bingo" means a game played on a printed form or card or electronic facsimile
			 containing a grid bearing horizontal and vertical lines of numbers. Each card
			 must include the same number of numbers. The numbers may be pre-printed or
			 completed by the players. Numbers are drawn from a receptacle containing no
			 more than 90 numbers, until there are one or more winners. A winner(s) is
			 determined by the player(s) to first cover or uncover the selected numbers in a
			 designated combination, sequence or pattern as they appear on the player's
			 card. The progress toward a "bingo" of the non-winning players shall be
			 irrelevant in determining the prize payout for the winner(s). A "blackout"
			 (i.e., covering all squares on the grid) shall qualify as a designated sequence
			 or pattern. Games which do not qualify as bingo include, but are not limited
			 to, games marketed as "quick shot bonanza," "pick X" bingo, and "pick-8" bingo
			 in the format utilizing a 40 square grid.
(3) "Pull Tab" means a single folded or
			 banded ticket or card, the face of which is initially covered or otherwise
			 hidden from view to conceal a number, symbol or set of symbols, a few of which
			 numbers or symbols out of every set of pull tabs have been designated in
			 advance and at random as prize winners.
(4) "Raffle" means a form of a lottery in
			 which each participant buys a ticket for an article or money designated as a
			 prize and where the winner is determined by a random drawing. A raffle includes
			 the elements of consideration, chance and a prize. Consideration is presumed to
			 be present unless it is clearly and conspicuously disclosed to prospective
			 participants that tickets to the drawing may be acquired without contributing
			 something of economic value.
(5)
			 "Door Prize Drawing" means a drawing held by a nonprofit organization at a
			 meeting of the organization where both the sale of tickets and the drawing(s)
			 occur during the meeting and the total value of the prize(s) is less than
			 $600.
(6) "Handle" means the total
			 amount of money and other things of value bet on the bingo, lotto or raffle
			 games, the value of raffle chances sold or the total amount collected from the
			 sale of imitation money during Monte Carlo events.
(7) "Responsible Officials of the
			 Organization" means the officers of the organization and the board of
			 directors, if any.
(8) "Bingo Game
			 Manager" means any person who is responsible for the overall conduct of bingo
			 games of a charitable, fraternal or religious organization.
(9) "Regular Bingo Game" means a bingo game
			 where players use hard cards or paper cards or electronic facsimiles from a
			 packet which have been purchased for a package price and may be used by players
			 during more than one game of a session.
(10) "Special Bingo Game" means a bingo game
			 where players must purchase individual paper cards or electronic facsimiles
			 where use is limited to a specific bingo game.
(11) "Concessions" means the sale of food,
			 beverages, related bingo supplies, such as daubers, glue and other retail items
			 using a bingo theme sold to bingo players.
(12) "Management or Operation" means
			 supervising the games.
(13)
			 "Administration or Operation" means supervising the games.
(14) "Supervise" means to direct, oversee and
			 inspect the work of others; to exercise authority with respect to
			 decision-making or the implementing of decisions; and responsibility for the
			 performance of functions integral to the operation of bingo and raffles,
			 including operation of the games and operation of the facility used to conduct
			 the games.
(15) "Drawing" means an
			 approved random selection process for determining winners in a raffle. To be
			 random, each number in the drawing must have an equal chance of
			 selection.
(16) "Monte Carlo event"
			 means a gambling event at which wagers are placed with imitation money upon
			 contests of chance in which players compete against other players or against
			 the house. As used in this subsection, "imitation money" includes imitation
			 currency, chips or tokens.
(17)
			 "Monte Carlo equipment supplier" means a person or organization who leases
			 equipment to a non-profit tax exempt organization for operation of a Monte
			 Carlo event.
(18) "Monte Carlo
			 event contractor" means a Monte Carlo event supplier who is employed to operate
			 a Monte Carlo event on behalf of a non-profit tax exempt
			 organization.
(19) "Monte Carlo
			 event licensee" means any organization which has obtained a Monte Carlo event
			 license pursuant to OAR 137-025-0410.
(20) "Related party" means an officer,
			 director or bingo game manager of the licensed organization. Related party
			 includes the family of such an individual. Family shall include a spouse,
			 domestic partner, brothers and sisters (whether by the whole or half blood),
			 ancestors and lineal descendants. Related party also includes corporations
			 wherein the preceding individuals directly, or indirectly, own 50% or more of
			 the capital interest and a trust in which the preceding individuals serve as
			 fiduciaries or are named beneficiaries.
(21) "Sleeper Bingo" - A bingo game where the
			 licensee adopts a house rule providing that a bingo prize may be shared between
			 player(s) announcing a qualifying bingo on the last number called and player(s)
			 who achieved a qualifying bingo as a result of a previously called
			 number.
(22) "Linked Progressive
			 Bingo Game" means a standard non-linked bingo game where an additional prize is
			 paid to a winner based upon a designated combination, sequence or pattern. The
			 additional prize is paid from a common prize pool which is collected from
			 multiple participating licensees.
(23) "Linked Progressive Bingo Contractor"
			 means a person or organization who leases equipment to bingo licensees for
			 operation of a linked progressive bingo game.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS
				  167.117(10)(12)
				  & ORS
				  464.250(1)
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS
				  464.250,
				  1997, SB 716 & 2003