§ 9:450. Definitions.

The following definitions are an integral part of this chapter and should be used accordingly.

(a)

Bingo: A game played for prizes with cards bearing numbers or other designations, five (5) or more in one (1) line, the holder covering numbers, as objects, similarly numbered, are drawn from a receptacle and the game being won by the person who first covers a previously designated arrangement of numbers on such a card.

(b)

Raffle: A game played by drawing for prizes or the allotment of prizes for chance, by the selling of shares or tickets or rights to participate in such game or games and by conducting the game or games accordingly.

(c)

Electronic video bingo: A machine which plays the game of bingo similar to a manual bingo game except that the machine employs a random number generator that replaces the drawing of numbered objects from a receptacle and may play "cover all bingo" in which all numbers of the card must be covered.

(d)

Pull tabs: Single or banded tickets or cards with a covered or concealed face containing one (1) or more numbers or symbols where one (1) or more in each set has been designated in advance as a winner.

(e)

Division: The gaming enforcement division of the parish.

(f)

Charitable gaming organization: Any bona fide nonprofit veterans', charitable, educational or religious organization licensed to conduct specific games of chance in the parish.

(g)

Commercial hall lessor: For the purpose of this chapter, a commercial lessor is defined as a person, partnership, corporation or other group or association who owns an interest in or is the lessor of premises offered for the purpose of conducting charitable games of chance on those premises. The term does not include a person convicted of a felony, criminal fraud or a crime of moral turpitude, or a person married to a person convicted of such crimes.

Nothing herein shall require an organization which is permitted to conduct charitable games of chance to obtain a commercial lessor's license to lease premises owned or occupied by it to another permitted organization provided that the lessee organization conducts its games within such premises. Further, an organization which is permitted to conduct charitable games of chance on premises which are owned, leased, rented or otherwise occupied by the organization shall not be required to obtain a commercial lessor's license for such premises if the premises are predominantly and on a regular basis used for nonprofit purposes other than the conduct of charitable games of chance.

(h)

Gaming supplies distributor: A person, partnership or corporation currently licensed by the state division of charitable gaming and the gaming enforcement division to sell charitable gaming supplies to licensed organizations.

(i)

Electronic video bingo company: A person, partnership or corporation currently licensed by the state division of charitable gaming and the gaming enforcement division to lease electronic video bingo machines to charitable gaming organizations.

(j)

Gross receipts: All revenue generated by a charitable gaming organization derived directly or indirectly from bingo or raffles.

(k)

Gross profit: Net revenue remaining on books of charitable gaming organizations after prizes are awarded and before expenses are deducted.

(l)

Net profit: Net revenue remaining on books of charitable gaming organizations after prizes are awarded and expenses are deducted. Also considered to be net proceeds or cash available to charity.

(m)

Regulatory fee: A regulation fee based on a percentage of gross receipts from bingo and net receipts on pull tabs assessed charitable clubs by the division in order to generate funds to enable the division to regulate charitable gaming in the parish.

(n)

School: An educational institution domiciled in the parish and recognized and accredited by the parish school board.

(o)

Casino night and Las Vegas night: A charitable fundraising event sponsored by a licensed charitable organization pursuant to R.S. 4.701 et seq. and local ordinance.

(p)

Nepotism: No member of the immediate family of an agency head shall be employed in his agency. For purposes of this chapter: Agency head shall mean the designated operator or member in charge of the game. Immediate family shall mean children, brothers, sisters, parents, spouse and the parents of a spouse, in accordance with R.S. 42:1102(13).

(q)

Director. The director of gaming enforcement division.

(Ord. No. 9190, pt. III, § 1, 11-28-90; Ord. No. 9392, pt. III, § 1, 2-12-92; Ord. No. 9585, pt. III, § 1, 2-24-93; Ord. No. 14100, § 1, 8-8-07)