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                         SENATE BILL 5560

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State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

 

By Senators Schow, Prentice, Snyder, Anderson and Horn

 

Read first time 01/31/97.  Referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.

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 1996 c 314 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    "Social card game," as used in this chapter, means a ((card game)) contest of chance, 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)) who shall either be players or persons licensed by the commission.  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))) A cardroom may ((serve as the custodian of)) provide a player-supported progressive prize contest((, in any card game)) as authorized by the commission;

    (((4))) (3) 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;

    (((5))) (4) The type of card game is one specifically approved by the commission pursuant to RCW 9.46.070; and

    (((6))) (5) 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.

 


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