NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 489

HOUSE BILL 610

 

 

AN ACT TO PERMIT THE LIMITED OPERATION OF THE GAME OF BINGO IN CRAVEN AND CASWELL COUNTIES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  It is lawful for fire departments and charitable, civic, religious and veterans' organizations to operate the game of bingo in Craven and Caswell Counties.

Sec. 2. The gross proceeds obtained from the operation of the game of bingo, except for prize money, must go into the treasury of the organization operating the game of bingo. No organization shall pay salaries or commissions to persons operating bingo games.

Sec. 3. No organizations shall allow nonmembers to supervise or conduct the organization's bingo games.

Sec. 4. Organizations may only operate bingo games upon their own premises or at the place where they regularly conduct their meetings. Organizations which regularly conduct their meetings at places which they do not own shall pay to the owners for each session of bingo conducted at these places, rent not to exceed the rent which they pay for each of their regular meetings.

Sec. 5. An organization may operate the game of bingo only one day per week for a maximum period of six hours on that day. A location may not be used more than once a week for a bingo session.

Sec. 6. The highest prize which an organization may offer on each day that it operates the game of bingo is five hundred dollars ($500.00).

Sec. 7. Chapter 665 of the 1975 Session Laws is repealed.

Sec. 8. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of May, 1979.