Section Pari 1007.02 - Bingo Paper Construction Standards(a) Cards, and sheets used in the conduct of bingo games shall be designed to be disposable and comply with the following manufacture standards: (1) The paper used should be of sufficient weight and quality to:a. Allow for legible numbers and prevent ink from spreading or bleeding through, thereby obscuring other numbers on other bingo cards or sheets, andb. Maintain the original condition and not deteriorate when properly stored and normally handled and protected from environmental elements;(2) The manufacturer's name, logo or identifying mark shall appear on each card or sheet;(3) Permutation numbers shall be displayed in the center square, at the bottom right corner of each card, or in both places;(4) Numbers printed on the card must be randomly assigned;(5) Each set of bingo cards or sheets shall bear the same serial number, except that a collation or packet that is made up of a number of sets need not bear the same serial number;(6) Bingo cards and sheets assembled in booklets, pads or packets shall be glued, not stapled, in such a way that the papers can be separated without the cards being defaced or similarly damaged; and(7) All cards and sheets shall contain a sequential serial number.(b) The following construction standards shall apply to concealed-face bingo paper: (1) A sequential audit number shall be printed on the outside of each card or sheet of concealed-face bingo paper;(2) To ensure randomness, concealed-face bingo paper shall be shuffled prior to printing the sequential audit number upon the outside of the card;(3) Concealed-face bingo paper shall be constructed to prevent bingo numbers from being viewed or determined from the outside of the card; and(4) The sealing or gluing of the concealed-face bingo paper shall not cause any card to be defaced upon opening.(c) All bingo cards and sheets approved by the commission and in use prior to the effective date of this rule, which have not been subsequently changed or modified, shall be exempt from the requirement in (a)-(b) above, and may remain in use.N.H. Admin. Code § Pari 1007.02
Derived From Volume XXXV Number 40, Filed October 8, 2015, Proposed by #10928, Effective 9/10/2015, Expires 9/10/2025.The amended version of this section by New Hampshire Register Volume 37, Number 15, eff. 3/10/2017 is not yet available.