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                         SENATE BILL 6588

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

 

By Senators Bauer, Deccio and Prentice

 

Read first time 01/19/2000.  Referred to Committee on Commerce, Trade, Housing & Financial Institutions.

Changing bingo provisions.


    AN ACT Relating to bingo games and licenses; amending RCW 9.46.0205; adding a new section to chapter 9.46 RCW; and providing an expiration date.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 9.46.0205 and 1987 c 4 s 3 are each amended to read as follows:

    "Bingo," as used in this chapter, means a game conducted ((only in the county)) exclusively within ((which the organization is principally located)) the state of Washington in which prizes are awarded on the basis of designated numbers or symbols on a card or a facsimile thereof conforming to numbers or symbols selected at random and in which no cards are sold except at the time and place of said game, when said game is conducted by a bona fide charitable or nonprofit organization which does not conduct or allow its premises to be used for conducting bingo on more than three occasions per week and which does not conduct bingo in any location which is used for conducting bingo on more than three occasions per week, or if an agricultural fair authorized under chapters 15.76 and 36.37 RCW, which does not conduct bingo on more than twelve consecutive days in any calendar year, and except in the case of any agricultural fair as authorized under chapters 15.76 and 36.37 RCW, unless approved by the commission, no person other than a bona fide member or an employee of said organization takes any part in the management or operation of said game, and no person who takes any part in the management or operation of said game takes any part in the management or operation of any game conducted by any other organization or any other branch of the same organization, unless approved by the commission, and no part of the proceeds thereof inure to the benefit of any person other than the organization conducting said game.  ((For the purposes of this section, the organization shall be deemed to be principally located in the county within which it has its primary business office.  If the organization has no business office, the organization shall be deemed to be located in the county of principal residence of its chief executive officer:  PROVIDED, That any organization which is conducting any licensed and established bingo game in any locale as of January 1, 1981, shall be exempt from the requirement that such game be conducted in the county in which the organization is principally located.))

 

    NEW SECTION.  Sec. 2.  A new section is added to chapter 9.46 RCW to read as follows:

    (1) Notwithstanding RCW 9.46.070, the commission may not issue any new licenses under RCW 9.46.070(1) until July 1, 2005.

    (2) The commission may allow existing licensees to share facilities at one location.

    (3) This section expires July 1, 2006.

 


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