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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.
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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