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SUBSTITUTE
SENATE BILL 6430
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Passed
Legislature - 1996 Regular Session
State of Washington 54th
Legislature 1996 Regular Session
By
Read first time 02/02/96.
Changing social card
game provisions.
AN ACT
Relating to social card games; and amending RCW 9.46.0281.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
9.46.0281 and 1994 c 120 s 2 are each amended to read as follows:
"Social
card game," as used in this chapter, means a card game, including but not
limited to the game commonly known as "Mah-Jongg," which constitutes
gambling and contains each of the following characteristics:
(1)
There are two or more participants and each of them are players. ((However,
no business with a public cardroom on its premises may have more than five
separate tables at which card games are played)) The number of card
tables shall be set by the commission but shall not exceed a total of fifteen
separate tables per establishment;
(2) Except
as provided in subsection (3) of this section, a player's success at
winning money or other thing of value by overcoming chance is in the long run
largely determined by the skill of the player;
(3) ((No
organization, corporation or person collects or obtains or charges any
percentage of or collects or obtains any portion of the money or thing of value
wagered or won by any of the players: PROVIDED, That this subsection shall not
preclude a player from collecting or obtaining his or her winnings)) A
cardroom may serve as the custodian of a player-supported progressive prize
contest, in any card game authorized by the commission;
(4) No
organization or corporation, or person other than one licensed by the commission
to operate a cardroom collects or obtains any money or thing of value from,
or charges or imposes any fee upon, any person which either enables him or her
to play or results in or from his or her playing ((in excess of three
dollars per half hour of playing time by that person collected in advance:
PROVIDED, That a fee may also be charged for entry into a tournament for
prizes, which fee shall not exceed fifty dollars, including all separate fees
which might be paid by a player for various phases or events of the
tournament: PROVIDED FURTHER, That this subsection shall not apply to the
membership fee in any bona fide charitable or nonprofit organization));
(5)
The type of card game is one specifically approved by the commission pursuant
to RCW 9.46.070; and
(6)
The extent of wagers, money or other thing of value which may be wagered or
contributed by any player does not exceed the amount or value specified by the
commission pursuant to RCW 9.46.070.
