Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 137 - DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE › Division 25 - BINGO/RAFFLES/MONTE CARLO › Section 137-025-0160 - Conduct of Bingo in General

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1)
			 No employee or volunteer of the licensee involved in the conduct of bingo games
			 may receive a prize or participate as a player at a bingo game session in which
			 the employee or volunteer is actually involved in the conduct of the bingo
			 games.
(2) All prizes awarded in
			 connection with bingo games, whether in cash or merchandise, and all rules by
			 which such prizes may be won, including costs to a participant, shall be
			 disclosed to each participant prior to that participant taking part in the
			 activity or paying for the opportunity to take part in the activity.
			 Disclosures, commonly known as "house rules," shall be made by conspicuously
			 posting or displaying upon the premises where the activity is operated a
			 complete description of the rules of the activity, an explanation of how each
			 prize can be won, and the cost to participate in the activity.
(3) The numbers for bingo shall be physically
			 selected from a container, and players shall be able to view the selection
			 process, including an unobstructed view of the container or blower chamber.
			 Immediately following the drawing of each number in any bingo game wherein a
			 prize valued at $100 or greater is offered, the caller shall display the letter
			 and number for viewing by the participants. Numbers shall not be selected by
			 electronic equipment, such as a computer. For any game in which a prize valued
			 at less than $100 is offered, upon request by a player to any employee or
			 volunteer of the licensee, the player, accompanied by a management
			 representative of the licensee, shall be allowed to inspect the bingo caller's
			 cradle to verify the bingo numbers called before the bingo numbers are returned
			 to the blower chamber.
(4) All
			 prizes, or script redeemable for prizes, paid to the winner(s) shall be paid by
			 the licensee; no prizes or script shall be transferred from non-winners to the
			 winner(s).
(5) Bingo cards may not
			 be purchased or played other than at the approved location of the licensee's
			 game; a player must be present to win.
(6) Except for the conduct of "bonanza" bingo
			 described in section (7) of this rule, the numbers shall be drawn and announced
			 during the play of the game; each player covers the corresponding number, if
			 present on the bingo card, as each number is called.
(7) A licensee may play "bonanza" bingo by
			 drawing a predesignated quantity of bingo numbers before the actual playing of
			 the bonanza bingo game only if the licensee complies with the following
			 procedures:
(a) Bonanza bingo cards shall
			 remain sealed until such time as they are sold to the players;
(b) The balls drawn in advance of the bonanza
			 bingo game shall be drawn during a bingo session in the presence of the
			 players; and
(c) The quantity of
			 numbers drawn in advance shall be fewer than the number which would produce a
			 probable instant winner, based upon the rules of the game and the expected
			 number of players.