8 Colo. Code Regs. § 1505-2-4

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 22, November 25, 2024

Rule 8 CCR 1505-2-4 - Sale and use of Bingo Cards, Packs, and Sheets

4.1 Sales

4.1.1 Player payment method. A licensee may not extend credit to a player.

(a) When accepting payment, the licensee must:

(1) Collect the consideration for playing a game of chance in full, in advance, by check, cash, or debit or credit card.

(2) Directly deposit all proceeds into the licensee's segregated checking or savings account. The licensee may not commingle proceeds with funds in a general account or other account. [Section 24-21-622(3)(a), C.R.S.]

(b) A licensee accepts all risks and losses associated with credit and debit card payment cancellations and returned checks. A licensee may not subtract these losses from its gross proceeds.

(c) A licensee may pay fees to a check guarantee service or debt collection firm for recovery of bad checks or cancelled credit charges from the licensee's segregated checking or savings account.

4.1.2 Premises only sales. All sales of cards, packs, and sheets must take place on the licensed premises during the bingo occasion.

4.1.3 Set price. A licensee:

(a) Must sell all cards, packs, and sheets at a set price;

(b) May offer discounts on the basis of criteria available to all players, such as quantity purchased;

(c) Must set a price for the purchase, lease, or use of an electronic bingo aid device and that price must not change during the bingo occasion;

(d) Must charge identical fees for electronic and non-electronic bingo card faces; and

(e) Must post the price of each card, pack, or sheet, including discounts offered, and the charge, if any, for the purchase, lease, or use of each electronic bingo aid device, during the occasion, and before players may purchase items.

4.1.4 Sales of individual sheets and cards. At all bingo occasions where individual disposable cards, including strip bingo cards, or sheets are sold, the following procedures apply:

(a) The licensee must issue individual disposable cards or sheets and a change fund to the workers. The licensee must record the exact number of disposable cards or sheets issued using the form prescribed by the Secretary of State.

(b) After the cards or sheets for a game are sold, the games manager or other designated individual must count the amount on hand, subtract the change fund, and compare cards or sheets sold against the money received.

(c) The licensee must record and retain the exact number of cards or sheets that are removed from inventory, sold, and returned to inventory using the form prescribed by the Secretary of State.

(d) Sellers of individual disposable cards or sheets may not use proceeds from sales to pay prizes.

(e) A licensee cannot use a device to dispense individual cards, sheets, or packs to players. Device includes any type of mechanical, nonelectronic, electronic, or electromechanical machine or apparatus.

4.1.5 Progressive bingo cards and sheets. The following procedures and requirements, in addition to those for bingo operations generally, apply to the sale and use of progressive bingo cards and sheets:

(a) The licensee must sell only disposable paper cards and must only lease electronic bingo aid devices where card faces are distinguishable by a color or design that the licensee does not use for any other game.

(b) Each card or face sold for a progressive bingo game must contain five rows of five squares with 24 preprinted numbers, or 48 preprinted numbers in the case of double action games, from the range of 1-75, a free center space, and the letters B I N G O printed in order over the five columns.

(c) A licensee must determine a set card price before the first game in a progression. Discounts, free cards or faces, price changes, and variable pricing are prohibited.

(d) A licensee must sell progressive bingo cards before the drawing of the first number for the game, except that, if the progressive bingo game is a pre-draw concealed face game, the licensee may sell cards after the first drawing of numbers and before the game resumes.

(e) A licensee must sell and account for progressive bingo cards separately from other cards, sheets, or packs sold or used at a bingo occasion. A licensee may, by house rule, make purchase of a pack or door card a prerequisite for purchase of a progressive bingo card.

4.2 Use

4.2.1 Packs. A licensee must collate each pack sold for use at a bingo occasion from a series of consecutively numbered sheets, and each sheet must contain its individual consecutive series number and the identification number assigned by the manufacturer to that series. Nothing in this rule requires a licensee to sell packs in any particular order.

4.2.2 Tally cards. A licensee must provide a tally card or cash receipt to anyone who purchases cards or packs at the door. At a minimum, the tally card or cash receipt must show the date of purchase and the total number of cards or packs purchased. A licensee must only award a prize when the purchaser provides the tally card or cash receipt.

4.2.3 Manufacturer's identification number. Before starting any game using disposable sheets or packs, the bingo caller must have the manufacturer's identification number and/or card number and the series number of the set of cards sheets or packs offered for sale for that particular occasion. When a player completes a bingo, the worker on the floor checking the bingo must read the manufacturer's identification number and/or card number and the series number of each winning sheet. Payment may not be made unless both numbers were among those offered for sale for that game.

4.3 Concealed face cards. At all bingo occasions where pre-draw concealed face cards are sold or used, the following procedures, in addition to those applicable to the sale and use of bingo cards generally, apply:

4.3.1 All pre-draw concealed face cards must be conspicuously identified before sale or transfer to any player so that the concealed face card may not be played at any occasion other than the one at which the card was sold or transferred.

4.3.2 A licensee must sell all pre-draw concealed face cards for a uniform price, except that a licensee may permit players to trade one previously purchased card for one new one with the purchase of an additional card.

4.3.3 A licensee that allows pre-draw concealed face card trade-ins must maintain two sets of cards for each pre-draw concealed face game. One set is the original set and is a different color from the second set, which is the trade-in set. Players may purchase cards only from the original set, and may only trade for cards in the trade-in set.

4.3.4 A licensee that allows pre-draw concealed face card trade-ins must mark or otherwise deface all returned cards.

8 CCR 1505-2-4

Colorado Register, Vol 37, No. 14. July 25, 2014, effective 8/14/2014

40 CR 17, September 10, 2017, effective 9/30/2017

44 CR 19, October 10, 2021, effective 11/1/2021

46 CR 05, March 10, 2023, effective 3/31/2023

47 CR 18, September 25, 2024, effective 10/15/2024