COLORADO SECRETARY OF STATE
[8 CCR 1505-2]
bingo and raffles games rules

Preliminary Draft of Proposed Rules

May 27, 2011

Disclaimer: This draft is not necessarily final. The proposed changes to be considered at the public rulemaking hearing may be different than the proposed changes in this draft. This draft is submitted to the Department of Regulatory Agencies for the purpose of complying with section 24-4-103(2.5), C.R.S., which requires that a draft be submitted to the Department at the time that a notice of proposed rulemaking is filed with the Secretary of State.

If revisions to this draft are made prior to the rulemaking hearing, a revised copy of the proposed rule changes will be available to the public no later than June 24, 2011, and a copy will be posted on the Department of State’s web site, in compliance with the requirement of section 24-4-103(4)(a), C.R.S., that “[a]ny proposed rule or revised proposed rule by an agency which is to be considered at the public hearing…shall be made available to any person at least five days prior to said hearing.”
Proposed additions to the current rules are reflected in small caps. Proposed deletions from current rules are shown in stricken type. Annotations may be included.
[The following changes are proposed by the Bingo Raffle Advisory Board or the Secretary of State as more thoroughly explained in the Proposed Statement of Basis, Purpose, and Specific Statutory Authority.]
Rule 2.0 would be amended as follows:
2.0 DEFINITION OF BINGO AND RAFFLE TERMS
A.	Bingo Game:. A bingo game starts when the first numbered object, ball, or number is selected at random or randomly generated by machine, and called, whether by a human or by an electronically synthesized voice, and continues until all the objects or balls have been returned to the receptacle or the machine that generates random numbers has been cleared. A game may have two or more parts with different winning patterns for each part, if the total amount of prizes offered or given for all parts of one game does not exceed, in amount or value, the maximum prize that may be offered or given in a single game of bingo. For purposes of the game of bingo known as “24 number bingo”, or any similar game referred to by a different name, a game starts when the 24 numbered balls or numbers, and any bonus balls or numbers allowed by the bingo-raffle licensee, are randomly selected or randomly generated by machine, and called. The game ends when the bingo-raffle licensee returns the balls to the receptacle or the machine has been cleared. A new game starts when a new set of 24 balls or numbers are randomly selected and called.
[Rules 2.0(B) through (F) would be retained unaltered]
G.	Face:. A single bingo card whether a disposable card or a computer generated display of a single bingo card on a bingo aid device.
[Rules 2.0(H) and (I) would be retained unaltered]
J.	Master Board:. The master board is the rack that balls are placed in after a ball has been taken from the receptacle. The master board may be electronically connected to a lighted display board that indicates the called ball. In the case of an electronic random number generator that calls selects numbers, the lighted display board is the master board.
K.	Master Electronic Device. The master electronic device means, with respect to 24 number bingo, an electronic system that selects 24 numbers, and up to six bonus numbers, using an approved random number generator, and displays them on a lighted display that is separate from any other lighted display used during an occasion. The master electronic device maintains and controls the transaction number, time, and date of sale of access permissions to players. The master electronic device may incorporate an electronically generated synthetic voice that has been approved by the licensing authority.
K.L.	Pack:. A collation of disposable paper bingo cards or sheets sold during a bingo occasion.
M.	Percentage prize payout bingo game. A percentage prize payout bingo game is a non-progressive bingo game in which the prize is determined based upon a pre-determined and announced percentage of sales of cards for that game. The prize shall be announced as soon as practical after sales for the game are closed, but in any event prior to fifth ball in play for that game is announced.
L.N.	Pre-Draw Concealed Face Game:. A bingo game in which a designated number of balls or objects are drawn or numbers are randomly generated during the occasion with a separate set of balls and in the presence of at least ten (10) players one player. Players may purchase concealed face cards after the designated number of balls or objects is drawn or numbers are randomly generated. The bingo-raffle licensee announces the resumption of the game and continues to draw balls or generate numbers until a player signals a bingo.
M.O.	Progressive Pull Tab:. A game consisting of one or more seal pull tab deals with identical form numbers that offers a cumulative or carryover jackpot prize. The prize structure for a progressive pull tab game is predetermined by the game’s manufacturer and built into the game. The structure includes a cumulative jackpot prize, to which each deal of the game in which the jackpot prize is not won contributes to a specifically pre-designated amount.
N.P.	Progressive Jackpot (“Progressive”) Bingo Game:. A progressive jackpot bingo game is one in which a prize amount is carried over to a subsequent game if no bingo is achieved within a specified number of balls drawn and called.
O.Q.	Remuneration:. Any monetary or non-monetary payment, no matter how small, given to a member of an organization in return for that member’s participation in the operation of charitable gaming. Items that are included in the definition include, but are not limited to: direct payments of cash; reduced pack prices or free packs to a member who plays bingo when that member is not participating in the operation of the charitable gaming during an occasion; reduced dues based on the number of volunteer hours that the member works in the operation of charitable gaming; meal vouchers; reimbursement of travel expenses when other members who do not participate in the operation of charitable gaming are not reimbursed for travel; non-competitive scholarships where the selection of the scholarship recipient is based on the amount of time volunteered in the operation of charitable gaming, whether by the recipient or a member of the organization related to the recipient; tips received from players by a member as a result of the member’s participation in the operation of charitable gaming.
P.R.	Renewal Application. An application received from a qualified organization which organization holds a bingo-raffle license for the calendar year immediately preceding the year for which the renewal application is submitted.
Q.S.	Seal PulltabTab. A pull tab game that offers one or more prizes by means of a flare or a jackpot card that is part of a pull tab deal. The flare or jackpot card includes a section bearing a tab or tabs that must be torn or broken apart to reveal a winning combination or combinations.
	1.	Each seal pull tab deal shall include:
a.1.	A ticket or tickets that entitle the purchaser to a chance to win the prize(s) identified by the winning combination (s) imprinted on the flare or jackpot card; and
b.2.	A flare preprinted pre-printed flare, or as otherwise prepared by the game’s manufacturer, to show:
		(1)a.	theThe serial number of the pull tab deal;
(2)b.	aA section that shall record the names of all holders of tickets that entitle the bearer to a chance on the seal prizes, together with the potential winning combination of each such ticket; and
(3)c.	allAll other information required by this rule to be shown on pull tab flares. The jackpot card, if separate from the flare, shall be preprinted pre-printed with the name and form number of the game and the manufacturer’s name.
R.T.	Sheet:. A leaf of paper upon which are printed two or more disposable paper bingo cards or with respect to electronic bingo aids, a graphical representation of multiple bingo cards on a single screen that are generated electronically by the bingo aid.
S.	Stretch raffle. A method of determining the amount of raffle tickets that may be purchased for a set price. For example, a stretch raffle may use the length of the arm span of one of the participants of the raffle to determine the number of tickets that a specific dollar amount will purchase. The stretch raffle must use the same method to determine the amount of tickets for all purchasers of raffle tickets in the specific raffle declared to be a stretch raffle. 
[Note: current Rule 2.0(S) would be re-codified in New Rule 9.0(E)(6)] 
T.U.	Stub:. That portion of a raffle ticket kept by the bingo-raffle licensee. In the case of a raffle prize that has a retail value greater than $1,000.00, the stub is that portion of the ticket containing the name, address, and telephone number of the purchaser of the ticket.
U.V.	Ticket:. As used in these rules, “ticket” means a slip of paper or any other object that is discrete from every other object sold or that contains a discrete number or symbol, which evidences that the person to whom it is issued, or the holder thereof, is entitled to some right or privilege therein mentioned or described.
XW.	24 number bingo. A bingo game played on an electronic bingo aid in which 24 numbers are randomly drawn , whether by a caller or randomly generated by an approved random number generator, called, and displayed on a lighted display. For purposes of 24 number bingo, the lighted display shall constitute the master board. Up to six bonus numbers may be randomly drawn, announced and posted on the lighted display. Any bonus numbers that are drawn must be separately identified on the lighted display from the 24 numbers that were drawn. The 24 numbers and any bonus numbers must be drawn and displayed in the presence of at least one player. All rules pertaining to the drawing of bingo numbers shall apply. Each separate drawing of numbers shall constitute a game. The winning patterns to win a bingo and the prizes to be awarded shall be clearly identified in advance to each player on the bingo aid device. Passive play is not allowed. Any player using an electronic bingo aid device in connection with 24 number bingo games shall be required to actively indicate the number of cards to be played and the amount of money wagered and the commencement of play for each set of cards purchased by either manually entering the numbers or by touching a button or buttons or screen icons.
V.	Wheel Raffle:. A raffle where the winning ticket is determined by spinning a wheel until a pointer lands in one of the discrete segments marked on the wheel. The wheel consists of a board mounted on a spindle with a specific number of discrete numbers or symbols marking each segment on the outer circumference.
[Note: current Rule 2.0(V) would be re-codified in New Rule 9.0(E)(5)] 
Rule 4.0(A)(2) would be amended as follows:
2.	Call and display of balls. Immediately following the drawing of a ball from the receptacle, the caller shall display, or cause to be displayed to the players, the letter and number on the ball. The caller may use a camera and monitor or may physically show the letter and number to the players so that the players may know that the proper number has been called. If monitors are used, a sign shall be placed by each monitor that shall read: “Ball on TV is not official until called.”
a.	The letter and number on the ball shall be called out loudly and clearly and announced twice prior to the drawing of the next ball. The ball is not official until it has been properly called. A bingo-raffle licensee that employs a system which incorporates a random number generator may use an electronically generated synthetic voice to announce the randomly selected ball or number if such system has been approved by the licensing authority.
b.	Where more than one room is used for any one game, the receptacle and the caller must be present in the room where the greatest number of players is present, and all balls called shall be plainly audible to the players in all of the rooms where players are present.
c.	If the bingo-raffle licensee uses a random number generator and/or an electronically generated synthetic voice, the announcement must be able to be heard by all individuals in the hall.
New Rules 4.0(A)(4)(h) and (i) would be adopted as follows:
h.	The above closing procedure shall not apply to a 24 number bingo game which may be closed at the discretion of the bingo-raffle licensee, provided however that such game shall be closed before the maximum prize payout per game is exceeded.
i.	The bingo-raffle licensee will ensure that a timely announcement of the closing of an occasion will be made to all players of 24 number bingo in such a manner as to preclude a game from being started that would cause the maximum payout per occasion to be exceeded.
Rule 4.0(A)(9) would be amended as follows:
9.	Number of games allowed. No bingo-raffle licensee may hold, operate, or conduct a game of bingo or lotto more often than on two hundred twenty 440 occasions in any calendar year.
Rule 7.0(B)(2) would be amended as follows:
2.	Maximum number of faces. A bingo-raffle licensee shall not knowingly allow a player to use an electronic bingo aid device that has more than thirty-six (36) 54 faces in play at any one time.
Rule 9.0(E)(5) would be amended as follows:
5.	Wheel raffles. A bingo-raffle licensee may conduct a wheel raffle“wheel” raffle, where the winning ticket is determined by spinning a wheel until a pointer lands in one of discrete segments marked on the wheel, if the number of tickets sold for a particular raffle is no greater than the number of discrete numbers or symbols on the wheel, and each ticket sold matches one and only one of the numbers or symbols on the wheel. If fewer tickets than the number of segments are sold, the licensee must continue to spin the wheel until there is a winner. A licensee shall not use any wheel containing 0 or 00 unless it offers to sell tickets for those segments, and a purchaser must win if he or she possesses a ticket bearing the numbers 0 or 00. 
New Rules 9.0(E)(6) and (7) would be adopted as follows:
6.	Stretch raffles. A bingo-raffle licensee may conduct a stretch raffle to determine the amount of raffle tickets that may be purchased for a set price. For example, a stretch raffle may use the length of the arm span of one of the participants of the raffle to determine the number of tickets that a specific dollar amount will purchase. A licensee may conduct a stretch raffle only if the same method is used to determine the amount of tickets for all purchasers of raffle tickets in the specific raffle declared to be a stretch raffle.
7.	Games not classified as raffles. The games of chance commonly known as “Animal Plop Bingo,” “Golf Ball Drops,” plastic or rubber “Duck Races,” and variations of such games are not classified as traditional raffles.
Rule 10.0(A) would be amended as follows:
1.	Maximum occasion prizes. Bingo-raffle licensees may award an aggregate amount not to exceed $2,000.00 for prizes for bingo games played during an occasion., except that a single 24 number bingo occasion shall be limited to an aggregate amount OF $5,000.00 for prizes for bingo games played during a 24 number bingo occasion.
2.	Maximum game prize. Bingo-raffle licensees may award any amount as a prize for any single game of bingo so long as the aggregate amount of all prizes awarded for all games played during the occasion does not exceed $2,000.00, except that for a 24 number bingo occasion or an occasion that is made up solely of percentage prize payout bingo games, bingo-raffle licensees may award any amount as a prize for any single game of bingo so long as the aggregate amount of all prizes awarded for all games played during the occasion does not exceed $5,000.00.
Rule 15.0(D) would be amended as follows:
D.	Random number generators. Any manufacturer or supplier that intends to sell or lease bingo equipment that generates numbers electronically rather than the use of balls, blowers, and master boards and/or that uses an electronically generated synthetic voice for announcing balls or numbers, must submit the following to the Licensing Authority prior to the sale or lease of such equipment to bingo-raffle licensees:
[Note: subsequent sections of current Rule 15.0(D) would be retained unaltered]