Section Pari 1008.04 - Operations of a Carryover Coverall Game(a) The carryover coverall bingo game prize money shall be rolled over to a successive bingo event in the event there is no winner on the original or preceding bingo event.(b) The carryover coverall bingo game prize money shall accumulate until there is a winner.(c) If there is no winner on a given bingo event, a pre-designated consolation prize amount shall be awarded to the game winner who first achieves coverall.(d) No bonus prize shall be included in the carryover coverall bingo game prize payout.(e) Other bingo game configurations may be played concurrently with the coverall bingo game.(f) The carryover coverall bingo game shall be a winner-take-all game.(g) The carryover coverall bingo prize shall:(1) Be organization specific; and(2) Not be transferable between charitable organizations playing within a given hall.(h) As specified in Pari 1009.01(a) below, the charitable organization shall maintain a separate bank account at a financial institution with at least one office in New Hampshire into which all carryover coverall funds are deposited.(i) Withdrawals from the carryover coverall account shall require the signature of both the charitable organization's treasurer and chairperson or their designee(s).(j) Prior to completion of the last bingo event played by a charitable organization at a given location, the entire accumulated carryover coverall jackpot shall be awarded unless the commission waives that requirement for good cause shown as specified in (k) and (l) below.(k) As specified in (j) above, the charitable organization shall submit a written waiver request specifying: (1) The reason that the carryover coverall jackpot was not awarded on the last bingo event played at a given location; and(2) The alternate method to be used to award the carryover coverall jackpot including the date and location.(l) The commission shall approve a request for a waiver submitted in accordance with (k) above when the commission determines that: (1) The reason that the carryover coverall jackpot was not awarded on the last bingo event played at a given location was: a. Due to an event beyond the control of the charitable organization;b. In the best interests of the public; orc. In the best interests of the charitable organization; and(2) The carryover coverall jackpot will not be retained by the charitable organization and will be awarded at a licensed bingo game within 30 days of the date the jackpot was supposed to be awarded.(m) A charitable organization may carryover its carryover coverall bingo game prize from one licensed bingo event to another licensed bingo event regardless of which day or days of the week which the bingo game is operated, provided that: (1) Each licensed bingo event, wherein the carryover coverall bingo game prize is operated, shall be at the same location;(2) The charitable organization shall post in a prominent place at its location, no less than 7 days in advance, its intention to offer the carryover coverall bingo game prize from one licensed bingo event to another licensed bingo event;(3) The charitable organization shall notify the commission, no less than 7 days in advance, of its intention to offer the carryover coverall bingo game prize from one licensed bingo event to another licensed bingo event;(4) The operation of the carryover coverall bingo game prize shall not be changed or amended in any way, until the existing jackpot in play is won and fully disbursed; and(5) The carryover coverall bingo game prize must remain in the same checking account as was originally designated prior to the carryover from one licensed bingo event date to another licensed bingo event.(n) In the event the charitable organization's license expires, is not renewed, is suspended, revoked or surrendered, or if the organization permanently terminates its bingo operations or terminates it operations at a particular location before a carryover coverall jackpot is awarded, the organization shall: (1) Determine a winner and award the jackpot on the licensee's last authorized bingo event at the location where the carryover coverall was started, regardless of the number of balls called; or(2) Allow the jackpot to be awarded at a single bingo event hosted by another licensed charitable organization within 3 weeks of the revocation, the date of which shall be publically advertised for a minimum of one week prior to the event.N.H. Admin. Code § Pari 1008.04
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.