Effective: September 30, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 110 – 134th General Assembly As used in this chapter: (A) “Bookmaking” means the business of receiving or paying off bets. (B) “Bet” means the hazarding of anything of value upon the result of an event, undertaking, or contingency, but does not include a bona fide business […]
Effective: September 4, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 7 – 130th General Assembly (A) No person shall do any of the following: (1) Engage in bookmaking, or knowingly engage in conduct that facilitates bookmaking; (2) Establish, promote, or operate or knowingly engage in conduct that facilitates any game of chance conducted for profit or any […]
Effective: July 1, 1996 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 2 – 121st General Assembly (A) No person, being the owner or lessee, or having custody, control, or supervision of premises, shall: (1) Use or occupy such premises for gambling in violation of section 2915.02 of the Revised Code; (2) Recklessly permit such premises to be used […]
Effective: July 1, 2003 Latest Legislation: House Bill 512 – 124th General Assembly (A) No person, while at a hotel, restaurant, tavern, store, arena, hall, or other place of public accommodation, business, amusement, or resort shall make a bet or play any game of chance or scheme of chance. (B) No person, being the owner […]
Effective: September 30, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 86 – 129th General Assembly (A) No person, with purpose to defraud or knowing that the person is facilitating a fraud, shall engage in conduct designed to corrupt the outcome of any of the following: (1) The subject of a bet; (2) A contest of knowledge, skill, […]
Effective: June 11, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 386 – 129th General Assembly (A) No person shall give to another person any item described in division (VV)(1), (2), (3), or (4) of section 2915.01 of the Revised Code in exchange for a noncash prize, toy, or novelty received as a reward for playing or operating […]
Effective: October 25, 2007 Latest Legislation: House Bill 177 – 127th General Assembly Any regulation of skill-based amusement machines shall be governed by this chapter and not by Chapter 1345. of the Revised Code.
Effective: July 1, 2003 Latest Legislation: House Bill 512 – 124th General Assembly (A) No person, except a charitable organization that has obtained a license pursuant to section 2915.08 of the Revised Code, shall conduct or advertise bingo. This division does not apply to a raffle that a charitable organization conducts or advertises. (B) Whoever […]
Effective: September 30, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 110 – 134th General Assembly (A)(1) Except as otherwise permitted under section 2915.092 of the Revised Code, annually before the first day of January, a charitable organization that desires to conduct bingo shall apply to the attorney general for one or more of the following types of […]
Effective: March 23, 2022 Latest Legislation: House Bill 29 – 134th General Assembly (A) No distributor shall sell, offer to sell, or otherwise provide or offer to provide bingo supplies to another person, or modify, convert, add to, or remove parts from bingo supplies to further their promotion or sale, for use in this state […]
Effective: October 9, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 110 – 134th General Assembly (A) No manufacturer shall sell, offer to sell, or otherwise provide or offer to provide bingo supplies for use in this state without having obtained a license from the attorney general under this section. (B)(1) The attorney general may issue a manufacturer […]
Effective: September 30, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 110 – 134th General Assembly (A) No charitable organization that conducts bingo shall fail to do any of the following: (1) Own all of the equipment used to conduct bingo or lease that equipment from a charitable organization that is licensed to conduct bingo, or from the […]
Effective: September 30, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 110 – 134th General Assembly (A) No charitable organization that conducts instant bingo shall do any of the following: (1) Fail to comply with the requirements of divisions (A)(1), (2), and (3) of section 2915.09 of the Revised Code; (2) Conduct instant bingo unless either of the […]
Effective: September 30, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 110 – 134th General Assembly (A)(1) Subject to division (A)(2) of this section, a person or entity that is exempt from federal income taxation under subsection 501(a) and is described in subsection 501(c)(3), 501(c)(4), 501(c)(6), 501(c)(7), 501(c)(8), 501(c)(10), or 501(c)(19) of the Internal Revenue Code may conduct […]
Effective: September 30, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 110 – 134th General Assembly (A) As used in this section, “retail income from all commercial activity” means the income that a person receives from the provision of goods, services, or activities that are provided at the location where instant bingo other than at a bingo session […]
Effective: June 11, 2012 Latest Legislation: House Bill 386 – 129th General Assembly (A) No owner or lessor of a location shall assist a charitable instant bingo organization in the conduct of instant bingo other than at a bingo session at that location unless the owner or lessor has entered into a written contract, as […]
Effective: September 30, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 110 – 134th General Assembly The attorney general, by rule adopted pursuant to section 111.15 of the Revised Code, shall establish a standard contract to be used by a charitable instant bingo organization, a veteran’s organization, a fraternal organization, or a sporting organization for the conduct of […]
Effective: September 30, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 110 – 134th General Assembly (A) No charitable organization that conducts bingo or a game of chance pursuant to division (D) of section 2915.02 of the Revised Code shall fail to maintain the following records for at least three years from the date on which the bingo […]
Effective: September 30, 2021 Latest Legislation: House Bill 110 – 134th General Assembly Except as otherwise provided by law, a charitable organization that conducts instant bingo or electronic instant bingo shall distribute the net profit from the proceeds of the sale of instant bingo or electronic instant bingo as follows: (A)(1) If a veteran’s organization, […]
Effective: December 15, 1977 Latest Legislation: House Bill 72 – 112th General Assembly (A) No person shall be a bingo game operator unless he is eighteen years of age or older. (B) No person who has been convicted of a felony or a gambling offense in any jurisdiction shall be a bingo game operator. (C) […]
