PERMANENT RULES
Date of Adoption: July 14, 2000.
Purpose: A charitable organization will be leasing part of its bingo premises to a commercial card room, which plans to operate house-banked card games. The charitable organization will be selling pull-tabs to the card room patrons. The charitable organization's gambling activities will be physically separate from the card room activities. This rule sets forth the criteria for charitable and nonprofit organizations to sell punch board/pull-tabs to patrons of a card room adjoining their premises.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 9.46.070.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 00-11-113 on May 19, 2000, with a publication of June 7, 2000.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0. Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
July 14, 2000
Susan Arland
Rules Coordinator
OTS-3980.1
NEW SECTION
WAC 230-12-074
Sales on licensed premises only -- Exceptions.
(1) All gambling activities must be under the complete control of the licensed operator and conducted on the premises set forth in the license application as approved by the commission, with the following exceptions:
(a) Raffle ticket sales; and
(b) Amusement games operated on a Class A licensed premises.
(2) A bona fide charitable or nonprofit organization licensed to conduct bingo and punch board/pull-tab games may sell punch boards/pull-tabs to customers of a licensed card room provided that the following conditions are met:
(a) The premises of the nonprofit licensee and the card room licensee share a common wall;
(b) Any door, counter or window allowing customer access through the common wall between the two premises is under the control of the nonprofit licensee and must be capable of being securely closed and locked;
(c) All punch board/pull-tab games shall be maintained and sold only on the premises of the nonprofit licensee, however, pull-tab players may take purchased punch boards/pull-tabs into the card room area;
(d) Punch board/pull-tab sales shall only be conducted by employees of the bingo/punch board/pull-tab licensee; and
(e) Signs shall conspicuously be posted at the door, window or counter separating the two premises clearly notifying the customers of the identity of the licensee selling the punch board/pull-tabs.
(3) A licensed operator shall not be deemed to have violated this rule solely because the pull-tab players may take pull-tabs from the licensee's premises, if the pull-tabs are selected and purchased and prizes determined and paid on the licensed operator's premises.
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