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SENATE
BILL 5330
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Passed
Legislature - 1997 Regular Session
State
of Washington 55th Legislature 1997 Regular Session
By
Read
first time 01/23/97. Referred to Committee on Commerce & Labor.
Allowing another type of golfing sweepstakes.
AN
ACT Relating to golfing sweepstakes; and amending RCW 9.46.0341.
BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec.
1. RCW
9.46.0341 and 1987 c 4 s 32 are each amended to read as follows:
The
legislature hereby authorizes bona fide charitable or nonprofit organizations
to conduct, without the necessity of obtaining a permit or license to do so
from the commission, golfing sweepstakes permitting wagers of money, and the
same shall not constitute such gambling or lottery as otherwise prohibited in
this chapter, or be subject to civil or criminal penalties thereunder, but this
only when the outcome of such golfing sweepstakes is dependent upon the score,
or scores, or the playing ability, or abilities, of a golfing contest between
individual players or teams of such players, conducted in the following manner:
(1)
Wagers are placed by buying tickets on any players in a golfing contest to
"win," "place," or "show" and those holding
tickets on the three winners may receive a payoff similar to the system of
betting identified as parimutuel, such moneys placed as wagers to be used
primarily as winners' proceeds, except moneys used to defray the expenses of
such golfing sweepstakes or otherwise used to carry out the purposes of such
organization; or
(2)
Participants in any golfing contest(s) pay a like sum of money into a common
fund on the basis of attaining a stated number of points ascertainable from the
score of such participants, and those participants attaining such stated number
of points share equally in the moneys in the common fund, without any
percentage of such moneys going to the sponsoring organization; ((and)) or
(3)
An auction is held in which persons may bid on the players or teams of
players in the golfing contest, and the person placing the highest bid on the
player or team that wins the golfing contest receives the proceeds of the
auction, except moneys used to defray the expenses of the golfing sweepstakes
or otherwise used to carry out the purposes of the organizations; and
(4)
Participation is limited to members of the sponsoring organization and their
bona fide guests.
Passed the Senate February 28, 1997.
Passed the House April 8, 1997.
Approved by the Governor
April 16, 1997.
Filed
in Office of Secretary of State April 16, 1997.
