2016 Colorado Revised Statutes
Title 12 - Professions and Occupations
General
Article 9 - Bingo and Raffles Law
Part 1 - General Provisions
§ 12-9-107. General conduct games of chance - premises - equipment - expenses - rules

(1) A licensee shall not hold, operate, or conduct a game of bingo or lotto more often than as specified by the licensing authority by rule, after consultation with the board.

(2) A person or licensee shall not permit any person under eighteen years of age to purchase the opportunity to participate in any game of chance or purchase pull tab games.

(3) A person or licensee shall not permit any person under fourteen years of age to assist in the conduct of bingo or pull tabs.

(4) A licensee shall not offer or give an alcoholic beverage as a prize in a game of chance.

(5) The licensing authority shall establish by rule the method of play and amount of prizes that may be awarded; except that the maximum prize that may be awarded must be at least five hundred dollars.

(6) Food offered in the course of a volunteer duty shift and consumed on the premises where the game of chance is being conducted is not remuneration if the retail value of the food offered does not exceed the maximum amount per volunteer set by rule.

(7) (a) The officers of a bingo-raffle licensee shall designate one or more bona fide, active members of the licensee as its games managers to be in charge of and primarily responsible for the conduct of the games of bingo or lotto on each occasion. The games managers shall supervise all activities on the occasion for which they are in charge and are responsible for making all required reports. The games managers, governing board of the licensee, and the individual acting in the role of a treasurer on behalf of the licensee must be familiar with all applicable provisions of state law, the rules of the licensing authority, and the license. The governing board of the licensee is ultimately responsible for the maintenance of books and records and the filing of the reports pursuant to this section. At least one games manager shall be present on the premises continuously during the games and for a period sufficient to ensure that all books and records for the occasion have been closed and that all supplies and equipment have been secured.

(b) An exempt organization may designate more than one of its bona fide, active members in order to comply with this subsection (7).

(8) The officers of a bingo-raffle licensee shall designate an officer to be in full charge of and primarily responsible for the proper utilization of the entire net proceeds of any game in accordance with the state law.

(9) The premises where any game of chance is being held, operated, or conducted, or is intended to be held, operated, or conducted, or where it is intended that any equipment be used, must be kept open to inspection at all times by the licensing authority, its agents and employees, and peace officers of any political subdivision of the state.

(10) (a) In conducting a bingo or pull tab game, a bingo-raffle licensee may operate equipment if the bingo-raffle licensee:

(I) Leases the equipment from a manufacturer licensee or supplier licensee on premises that are owned, leased, or rented by the licensee, used as the licensee's principal place of business, and controlled so that admittance to the premises is limited to the licensee's members and bona fide guests;

(II) Owns the equipment; or

(III) Leases equipment that is owned or leased by a landlord licensee.

(b) Nothing in this subsection (10) prohibits a bingo-raffle licensee from leasing electronic devices used as aids in the game of bingo.

(11) A licensee shall not possess, use, sell, offer for sale, or put into play any bingo or pull tab game, ticket, card, or sheet unless it conforms to the definitions and requirements of this article and was purchased by the licensee from a licensed bingo-raffle manufacturer or supplier or licensed agent thereof. A licensee shall not possess, use, sell, offer for sale, or put into play any electronic device used as an aid in the game of bingo unless it conforms to the requirements of this article and was purchased or leased by the licensee from a licensed bingo-raffle manufacturer or supplier or licensed agent thereof.

(12) In order to possess, use, sell, offer for sale, or put into play any bingo or pull tab game, ticket, card, or sheet, a licensee must have at the location of the game an invoice from its licensed supplier showing at least the name, description, color code, if any, and serial number of the pull tab, card, or sheet.

(13) The licensing authority shall establish, by rule, safeguards to protect the bingo-raffle licensee's players against defaults in charitable gaming debts owed or to become payable by the bingo-raffle licensee.

(14) The net proceeds derived from the holding of games of chance must be devoted, within one year, to the lawful purposes of the organization permitted to conduct the game of chance. Any organization desiring to hold the net proceeds of games of chance for a period longer than one year must apply to the licensing authority for special permission and, upon good cause shown, the licensing authority may grant the request.

(15) The licensing authority may require a licensee that does not report, during any one-year licensing period, positive net proceeds to show cause before the licensing authority why its right to conduct games of chance should not be suspended or revoked. The licensing authority may establish by rule the conditions for suspending, revoking, or refusing to renew a license to conduct charitable gaming for failure to report positive net proceeds.