563.135 Bingo license application; community-based residential facilities, senior citizen community centers and adult family homes.
563.135
563.135 Bingo license application; community-based residential facilities, senior citizen community centers and adult family homes.563.135(1)
(1) An application for a license to conduct bingo for an organization listed under s. 563.11 (1) (b) to (d) shall be accompanied by a $5 license fee and a sworn statement by the owner or operator of the organization that all of the following rules shall apply to bingo conducted by the organization:563.135(1)(a)
(a) Only residents, guests of residents, and employees of the community-based residential facility or adult family home, or members, patrons, guests of members, and patrons and employees of the senior citizen community center, may play bingo.563.135(1)(b)
(b) Bingo may be played only as a recreational or social activity.563.135(1)(c)
(c) No admission fee may be charged to play bingo.563.135(1)(d)
(d) The total fee charged to a player for all bingo cards used by the player at a bingo occasion will not exceed $2 and the aggregate value of prizes awarded at the bingo occasion will equal the total amount of fees that are collected from all of the players at the bingo occasion.563.135(1)(e)
(e) Progressive jackpot bingo may not be played.563.135(2m)
(2m) All moneys received under sub. (1) shall be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.505 (8) (jm).563.135 - ANNOT.
History: 1989 a. 147; 1991 a. 269 s. 782cp; Stats. 1991 s. 563.135; 1999 a. 5; 2005 a. 247.