15 AAC 160.590. Conduct of bingo games

(a) A permittee or operator may not conduct bingo activity

(1) with an intent to defraud, as defined in AS 11.46.990 ; or

(2) in deception, as defined in AS 11.81.900 .

(b) If a permittee or operator does not provide braille bingo cards, a player who has a vision impairment may use a personal braille bingo card. The permittee or operator shall ensure that the personal braille bingo card is not identical to another bingo card in use. The permittee or operator may inspect and reject a personal braille bingo card that does not meet the requirements of this chapter.

(d) Immediately before a bingo game begins, the permittee or operator shall call out and display the pattern of numbers required to be covered in order to win the bingo game's prize.

(e) If duplicate hard bingo cards are to be used in play, the permittee or operator shall conspicuously post that fact and notify all players.

(f) Following the drawing of a ball in a bingo game, the permittee or operator shall call out and display to the players the letter and number on the ball. If a flashboard is used, the corresponding letter and number on the flashboard must be lighted.

(g) Once drawn, a ball may not be returned to the receptacle until after the conclusion of the bingo game.

(h) The winner of a bingo game is the first player to complete the particular arrangement of numbers on a bingo card based on balls called.

(i) If a player declares a winning arrangement of numbers, the player shall submit the bingo card for verification to the permittee or operator and to at least one neutral player. A neutral player is a player who is not a direct relative of the declaring player and who does not have a prohibited financial interest with the permittee or operator.

(j) If more than one player declares a winning arrangement of numbers on the call of the same ball, the bingo game prize shall be divided equally among the verified winning players.

(k) If a player declares a winning arrangement of numbers, the permittee or operator shall draw a ball from the receptacle. If the declaring player's arrangement is not verified, the permittee or operator shall resume the game by calling the ball drawn under this subsection.

( l ) Once a permittee or operator begins to call a drawn ball, the permittee or operator shall complete the call. If a player achieved bingo based upon the previous ball called, the player shall share the prize for the bingo game with a player, if any, who achieves bingo on the subsequent ball called.

(m) Once all declaring players' arrangements are verified, the permittee or operator shall award the prize for the bingo game to that player or players.

(n) All prizes must be awarded by the end of a bingo session. All merchandise offered as prizes to bingo players must be paid for by the permittee or operator without lien or interest of others before the merchandise is offered as a prize.

History: Eff. 7/30/94, Register 131

Authority: AS 05.15.060

AS 05.15.100

AS 05.15.180

Editor's note: As of Register 165 (April 2003), the regulations attorney made a technical revision under AS 44.62.125 (b)(6), to 15 AAC 160.590(e) .

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