Any private campground or hotel may conduct bingo games provided:
I. The price to be paid for a single card or play under this section shall not exceed $0.50.
II. The campground or hotel shall conduct no more than 2 game dates of bingo in any one calendar week.
III. All revenues received from the sale of bingo cards in any game or series of games on any one calendar day shall be paid out to the players. The total value of all prizes, tokens, or awards used, given, offered, or awarded in connection with any one game on any calendar day shall not exceed a payout value of $500, or series of games on that same day shall not exceed a payout value of $2,000.
IV. Games shall be operated only by persons on the staff of the campground or hotel. Such staff shall operate the games without compensation from the bingo revenues.
V. The games of bingo shall be open only to persons 18 years of age or older who are bona fide guests at the campground or hotel.
VI. No campground or hotel shall act as an agent for operating games of bingo when it is unlawful for such campground’s or hotel’s principal to operate bingo games.
VII. The campground or hotel shall have been in existence for at least 2 years in the city or town in which the bingo games are to be conducted.
VIII. The campground or hotel shall maintain a current list of bona fide guests.
IX. The campground or hotel shall not have been established solely for the purpose of operating bingo games.
Source. 1983, 417:1. 2011, 259:14, eff. Sept. 11, 2011. 2016, 170:2, eff. Aug. 2, 2016. 2018, 295:1, eff. June 25, 2018.