Pa Small Games

of Chance Law

Overview

Eligible Organizations

Use of Proceeds

Eligible Organizations

Game Summary

Licensed Premises and Location of Games of Chance

Licensed Eligible Organization Requirements and Restrictions

Licensed Eligible Organization Records





 

Note: This is a reprint from the Pa Department of Revenue.

Any use or interpretation is the sole responsibility of the user.

 

COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA

DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE

SMALL GAMES OF CHANCE

 

Licensed Eligible Organization Requirements and Restrictions

1. The Small Games of Chance License should be predominately displayed. 

2. Players must be 18 or older to participate.

3. No person convicted of a felony or a violation of the Bingo Law or the Act may manage, set up, supervise or participate in the operation of games of chance.

4. A licensed eligible organization may not advertise the prizes offered in games of chance, but prizes must be identified on a raffle ticket.

5. A licensed eligible organization may not pay a person to conduct games of chance.

6. Only eligible organization managers, officers, directors, bar personnel or bona fide members of the eligible organization may conduct a small game of chance. 

7. Players of games of chance shall pay for their plays in cash and in advance of the game's play.

8. The maximum cash value of a prize for individual play is $500, except for prizes awarded in a raffle conducted under a special permit, in carryover daily drawings and in weekly drawings.

9. No more than $5,000 in cash or merchandise may be awarded in a 7-day period.

10. No more than $5,000 in cash or merchandise may be awarded in raffles in a calendar month except under a special permit.

11. No one visibly intoxicated may purchase or sell a chance.

12. Merchandise prizes should be displayed in the immediate area of the games for which they are prizes.

13. Prizes should be delivered to the winner as soon as possible.

14. Winning pull-tabs or punchboard plays should be perforated or punched as soon as they are redeemed.

15. An employee of a distributor may not be an employee, consultant or volunteer to a licensed eligible organization unless the employee has made a full written disclosure of the employee's distributorship employment to the eligible organization.

16. The licensed eligible organization shall not allow an employee of a distributor to play games of chance at the eligible organization if the eligible organization is a customer of the distributorship.

 

 
     
 

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