16- 633 C.M.R. ch. 31, § 1

Current through 2024-51, December 18, 2024

Section 633-31-1 - Definitions

As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:

1.Director "Director" has the same meaning as set forth in 17 M.R.S. §311

2.Occasion "Occasion" means a single gathering or session at which a series of successive Beano games are played.

3.Blackout "Blackout" also known as "coverall" means a bingo pattern that requires that every number on the tally card be covered.

4.Electronic Beano Card Dauber "Electronic beano card dauber" (herein after referred to as "Electronic Dauber") is an electronic appliance used by a player to identify beano cards that contain numbers or symbols input by a player. This device electronically stores preprinted beano cards purchased by a player, provides a means for a player to input numbers or symbols called by the licensee, compares the numbers or symbols input by the player to beano cards previously stored in an electronic database, and identifies to the player those stored beano cards that contain the numbers or symbols input by the player: provided, that player-owned devices, which are not directly interfaced with or connected to equipment used to conduct beano games or the electronic database in which electronically generated beano cards are stored in any manner, are not "electronic beano card daubers" for purposes of these Rules and Regulations.

5.Electronic Beano Card Computer System "electronic beano card computer system" is the computer hardware and software system that loads the electronic beano cards purchased by each electronic beano card player into the electronic dauber.

6.Eligible Organization "Organization" has the same meaning as set forth in 17 M.R.S. §313-C.

7.Gambling Control Unit "Gambling Control Unit" or "unit" has the same meaning as set forth in 17 M.R.S. §311.

8.Registrant "Registrant" has the same meaning as set forth in 17 M.R.S. §311(9)

9.Wild Number Beano. "Wild Number Beano" means a beano occasion, game or series of beano games in which a number is picked or denoted as a wild number.

10.Winner-take-all. "Winner-take-all" means a beano game or series of beano games in which all the proceeds from the sale of the cards are paid to participants as prizes.

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