Chapter 529
2013 -- S 0581
Enacted 07/19/13
A N A C T
RELATING TO
CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- GAMBLING AND LOTTERIES
Introduced
By: Senators
Date Introduced: February 28, 2013
It is enacted by the General
Assembly as follows:
SECTION 1. Chapter 11-19 of the General Laws entitled
"Gambling and Lotteries" is
hereby amended by adding thereto the following section:
11-19-32.2. Senior
citizens' center -- Bingo allowed. -- (a) Notwithstanding any other
provision of this chapter to the contrary, any organization
which operates a public senior citizens
center or senior center may obtain a permit approved by the
department to conduct bingo games
in said senior citizens center or senior center for up
to five (5) calendar days per week, excluding
Sundays.
(b) As used herein,
the terms "senior citizens center" or "senior center" means
an
organization whose goal is the promotion of various recreational
and educational activities to
senior citizens and which receives a combination of federal,
state, municipal and private funds to
provide such services at a community facility.
(c) A senior citizens
center or senior center may conduct bingo games if it complies with
all of the following requirements:
(1) All bingo games
are conducted only on the premises of the center’s facility;
(2) All participants
are age fifty-five (55) years of age or older; provided, this shall not
prohibit a person who is less than fifty-five (55) years of
age from assisting a senior citizen in
playing the game;
(3) All bingo game
operators are sixty (60) years of age or older and receive no
compensation for serving as operators;
(4) The total daily
prizes shall not exceed four hundred dollars ($400); and
(5) All proceeds of
the game shall be limited in use to the following:
(i)
To pay winners monetary prizes;
(ii) To defray any
costs directly related to conducting the games; and/or
(iii) To defray costs
of services the center’s facility provides.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect on July 1, 2013.
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