Section 5800.1 Definition of terms. This Subtitle has been deleted and replaced with an alphabetized list of updated and new definitions intended to both facilitate the readers’ location of such definitions and to clarify previous ambiguities:

"Admission card or package" is defined;

"Bingo Control Law" is defined;

"Bingo Licensing Law" is defined;

"Card" or "sheet" is defined;

"Clerk" is defined;

"Department" is defined;

"Double-header" is defined;

"Early bird" is added as a new game;

"Electronic bingo aid" is defined;

"Extra regular card" is defined;

"Face-card" is defined;

"Governing body" and "municipal governing body" are defined;

"Gross receipts" are defined;

"Jackpot game" is defined;

"Lawful purposes" are defined;

"Limited period bingo" is defined;

"Occasion" is redefined;

"Opportunity" is defined;

"Package" is defined;

"Player select" is added as a new game;

"Pre-drawn bingo" is added as a new game;

"Prize" is defined;

"Quick bingo game" is added as a new game;

"Regular bingo game" is defined;

"Series" is defined;

"Special bingo game" is redefined;

"Session" is defined;

"Supercard" is amended to remove the limitation on supercards only in cities having a population in excess of one million, pursuant to statute.

"Tri-color bingo" is added as a new games;

"Triple-header" is defined; and

"Wild-number game" is added as a new game.

2. Section 5812.9 Jurisdiction of license. This section has been amended to codify the existing procedures whereby a municipality issues a license to an organization that is domiciled beyond its territorial limits to conduct bingo within its territorial limits.

3. Section 5814.15 Establishment of maximum rentals. This section has been amended to codify the criteria that have been used in determining rents to be fair and reasonable for more than thirty years.

4. Section 5815.11 Persons prohibited from participating in bingo. This section, which prohibits manufacturers and suppliers and their respective agents from conducting, participating, advising, or assisting in the conduct of bingo or from rendering any service to anyone involved with the conduct of bingo, is amended to prohibit manufacturers and suppliers from loaning money or anything of value to those involved with the conduct of bingo, directly or indirectly.

5. Section 5815.14 Sales to other than licensed organizations prohibited. This section has been amended to permit licensed suppliers to sell bingo supplies and equipment to hotels that have received an identification number from the Board, and to licensed commercial lessors that have obtained prior written approval from the Board to purchase such equipment. The minimum age for qualifying a person as a senior citizen has been lowered from 65 years of age to 55 years of age, pursuant to statute.

6. Section 5815.20 Supplier’s gifts, donations and loans prohibited. This new section has been added to prohibit suppliers from selling or distributing bingo supplies or equipment for less than fair market value.

7. Section 5820.7 Compensation of bookkeepers and accountants. This section has been amended to increase the fees payable to bingo bookkeepers and accountants that have remained constant since 1981.

8. Section 5820.8 Admission charge. This section has been amended to raise the maximum price of an admission from $1 to $5 pursuant to statute, and permits such admission cards to be sold as part of a package of cards. This section is also amended to require that all persons entering a bingo hall, purchase an admission card and restricts the sale and use of admission cards to one per person.

9. Section 5820.12 This section, previously titled "Sale of bingo cards without disclosing face" has been changed to "Players’ selection of face-cards prohibited; surrender of unused bingo opportunities" to facilitate the sale of opportunities in the new games player select and pre-drawn bingo.

10. Section 5820.13 The title of this section has been changed from "Time for selling bingo cards" to "Time for selling bingo cards; accounting of bingo cards sold." This section has been amended to remove the restriction on the sale of bingo cards after the "10^th" scheduled game and add the game "marking the halfway point in an occasion" except for cards sold for supercards and jackpot games, and to require that each licensee keep an accurate count of early bird cards, player select cards, pre-drawn cards, quick bingo cards and supercards sold. This section also requires that admission cards extra regular cards and special cards be different and readily distinguishable from each other.

11. Section 5820.14 Price of bingo cards. This section has been amended to include early bird cards, player select cards, pre-drawn cards and quick bingo cards; permits bingo opportunities that are sold as part of a package to be sold singly, provided such single opportunities are different and distinguishable from those opportunities comprising said package and the price of each opportunity or package is conspicuously posted and remains constant throughout the occasion. This amendment also raises the maximum price per supercard to ten dollars; requires that the price for at least one opportunity to participate in any early bird game shall not exceed one-dollar; permits the sale of opportunities for double-headers and triple-headers as part of a package; and permits the sale of tiered bingo games.

12. Section 5820.15 Kind of equipment used for games. This amendment permits the use of colored objects or balls to provide added security, and explains the procedures to be implemented when it is determined that an object or ball is not present in the receptacle at the start of play, due to mechanical malfunction or human error.

13. Section 5820.16 Drawing of numbers. This section eliminates the need to have an assistant caller present when an audio-video system is employed that displays the next ball to be called on video monitors. This amendment also eliminates the handling of the object or ball by the caller when a "hands-free" bingo system is utilized, and permits the conduct of wild number bingo games under certain conditions.

14. Section 5820.17 Visibility of drawing to players. This section has been amended to require that, when an audio-video system is used, the video monitors be maintained in good working order and visible to a majority of the players at all times.

15. Section 5820.18 The title of this section has been changed from "Announcement of winning combinations before game" to "Announcement of winning patterns before a game" and has been amended to require that the winning patterns for all games, including games comprised of multiple parts, be listed on the licensed bingo organization’s bingo program required under new section 5820.39.

16. Section 5820.19 The title of this section has been changed from "Permissible winning combinations" to "Permissible winning patterns" and has been amended to clarify certain winning patterns. The amendment also requires that a player not be compelled to cover or daub fewer than four numbered spaces on any face-card to win, nor shall any winning pattern require the covering or daubing of numbers appearing on more than three bingo face-cards.

17. Section 5820.20 This section, which has been changed from "Bonus prizes prohibited" to "Bonus prizes" removes the restriction on bonus prizes based on the type of bingo card used, the winning pattern, or the number of calls required to win, provided the type of cards and winning patterns have been approved in writing by the Board, in accordance with 5820.19, the bonus prize will not exceed the limitations on single prize and series of prizes, and the number of calls and the winning pattern are listed on the organization’s application for bingo license and the bingo program required by new Section 5820.39. This section has been further amended to expand upon the conduct of progressive bingo games by permitting prizes to be increased in bingo occasions held subsequent to an occasion in which a primary prize is not awarded.

18. Section 5820.27 Multiple winners. This section has been amended to clarify the procedures for awarding prizes when more than one winning bingo is determined on the same number called, and when multiple winners are determined in tri-color bingo games and tiered bingo games.

19. Section 5820.30 Admission charge as requisite to participate. This section has been amended to clarify the requirement that all persons entering a bingo hall or participating in any bingo game purchase at least an admission card, prevents players from being forced to purchase more than an admission card or package, and prohibits a player from purchasing or playing more than one admission card or package.

20. Section 5820.34 The title of this section, "Persons serving another licensee or participating as a player" has been changed to "Persons prohibited as players" for the purpose of removing the prohibition against assisting at bingo for more than one organization pursuant to statute and to clarify that no person who has assisted in the conduct of a bingo occasion shall participate as a bingo player or purchase raffle tickets during such occasion.

21. Section 5820.39 Accommodations to be furnished players. This section has been amended to require that all players be furnished with a bingo program listing the name and identification number of the licensee, the house rules in effect, and a schedule of the games to be played and the prizes to be awarded therein. This section has also been amended to require that all bingo halls comply with federal, state and local smoking laws.

22. Section 5820.42 Sale and distribution of bingo supplies. This section has been amended to clarify that a licensed supplier may only sell or lease bingo equipment at fair market value.

23. Section 5820.47 Advertising of bingo games. This section adds, pursuant to statute, the word "radio" to the approved forms by which licensed authorized organizations may advertise their bingo games, and hyphenates the word "firefighting" to "fire-fighting"

24. Section 5820.49 Player select game use of board-approved player select bingo cards. This new section introduces the player select game in which a player, prior to the commencement of that game, purchases a blank player select card and enters the numbers of his or her choice thereon. Prizes are awarded to those players whose selected numbers match those randomly drawn by the bingo operator.

25. Section 5820.51 Pre-drawn bingo game; use of board-approved rip-open or sealed bingo cards. This new section introduces pre-drawn bingo game which may be conducted by a licensed authorized organization either as the first game of its occasion, or as the first game following an intermission, in which a pre-determined number of bingo balls are pre-picked at random from the receptacle. Pre-drawn bingo games shall be conducted using only Board-approved rip-open or sealed special opportunities, which shall be constructed in such a manner, and of such material, so as to prevent the viewing of the numbers printed thereon until the purchasing player opens the opportunity by tearing off perforated edges or otherwise breaking a secured seal enclosing the face-card.

26. Section 5820.52 Quick bingo game; use of board-approved quick bingo cards. This section introduces the new quick bingo game, which is a special game conducted in conjunction with another scheduled bingo game, in which specially constructed quick bingo cards are sold and marked by the players.

27. Section 5820.53 House rules. This new section requires that licensed authorized organizations adopt house rules to inform their players how situations not addressed by law, rule or regulation will be handled. Such house rules shall include, but need not be limited to, seat reservations, late calls of bingo, electrical power interruptions, and the participation of minors. House rules shall be prominently posted, listed in the bingo program required by Section 5820.39, and shall be audibly announced prior to the commencement of each bingo session.

28. Section 5820.54 Seat reservations. This new section requires that organizations adopt a house rule either permitting or prohibiting the saving of seats at bingo occasions.

29. Section 5820.56 Tri-color bingo game; use of board-approved tri-color bingo opportunities. This new section authorizes the conduct of the new game tri-color bingo and specifies the types of bingo opportunities used in such games.

30. Section 5821.18 Lawful expenditures. This section codifies the purposes for which bingo proceeds may be disbursed previously contained in Bulletin #9, and is identical to the provisions of Section 5624.21 Lawful Expenditures governing the purposes for which games of chance proceeds may be disbursed.

31. Section 5822.5 Limitations upon lessors. This section has been changed to prevent a licensed authorized organization from leasing its premises when such facility is simultaneously needed by the organization for other activities.

32. Section 5822.10 Written agreement to be filed. This section has been changed to require that each lease agreement for the rental of bingo premises between two licensed authorized organizations be submitted to the licensing authority for approval of both the lease and rental fees to be charged, rather than submitting them to the Board, because the local authorities are more familiar with the premises to be utilized and the fair pricing of the rents proposed. To assist the licensing authorities, the amendment further requires that the licensing authority consult with the Board prior to rendering a decision.

33. Section 5822.11 Mandatory provisions. This section has been changed to prohibit bingo lessors from loaning money or anything else of value to anyone conducting bingo pursuant to a bingo lease agreement.