Trinity County Municipal Code Ch. 5.04 Bingo

This chapter shall be known as the "Trinity County bingo ordinance."

(Ord. 357 §1, 1977)

As used in this section, "bingo" means a game of chance in which prizes are awarded on the basis of designated numbers or symbols on a card which conform to numbers of symbols selected at random.

(Ord. 357 §11, 1977)

Mobile home park associations and senior citizens organizations and organizations exempted from the payment of bank and corporation tax by Sections 23701 a, b, d through g, and l of the Revenue and Taxation Code may conduct bingo games within the county, provided that the receipts of such games are used only for charitable purposes.

(Ord. 1102 §1, 1987)

No minors shall be allowed to participate in any bingo game.

(Ord. 357 §3, 1977)

An organization authorized to conduct a bingo game shall conduct a game only on property owned or leased by it, or property whose use is donated to the organization, and which property is used by such organization for an office or for performance of the purposes for which the organization is organized. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require that the property owned or leased by or whose use is donated to the organization be used or leased exclusively by or donated exclusively to such organization.

(Ord. 1102 §2, 1987)

All bingo games shall be open to the public, not just to the members of the nonprofit organization.

(Ord. 357 §5, 1977)

A bingo game shall be operated and staffed only by members of the nonprofit charitable organization which organized it. Such members shall not receive a profit, wage, or salary from any bingo game. Only the organization authorized to conduct a bingo game shall operate such game, or participate in the promotion, supervision, or any other phase of such game. This subdivision does not preclude the employment of security personnel who are not members of the authorized organization at such bingo game by the organization conducting the game.

(Ord. 1102 §3, 1987)

No individual corporation, partnership, or other legal entity except the organization authorized to conduct a bingo game shall hold a financial interest in the conduct of such bingo game.

(Ord. 357 §7, 1977)

With respect to organizations exempt from payment of the bank and corporation tax by Section 23701d of the Revenue and Taxation Code, all profits derived from a bingo game shall be kept in a special fund or account and shall not be commingled with any other fund or account. Such profits shall be used only for charitable purposes. With respect to other organizations authorized to conduct bingo games pursuant to this section, all proceeds derived from a bingo game shall be kept in a special fund or account and shall not be commingled with any other fund or account. Such proceeds shall be used only for charitable purposes, except as follows:

A. Such proceeds may be used for prizes.

B. A portion of such proceeds, not to exceed twenty percent of the proceeds before the deduction for prizes, or one thousand dollars per month, whichever is less, may be used for rental of property, overhead, including the purchase of bingo equipment, administrative expenses, security equipment and security personnel.

C. Such proceeds may be used to pay license fees.

D. A city, county, or city and county which enacts an ordinance permitting bingo games may specify in such ordinance that if the monthly gross receipts from bingo games of an organization within this subdivision exceeds five thousand dollars, a minimum percentage of the proceeds shall be used only for charitable purposes not relating to the conducting of bingo games and that the balance shall be used for prizes, rental or property, overhead, administrative expenses and payment of license fees. The amount of proceeds used for rental of property, overhead and administrative expenses is subject to the limitations specified in subsection B of this section.

(Ord. 1102 §4, 1987)

No person shall be allowed to participate in a bingo game unless the person is physically present at the time and place in which the bingo game is being conducted.

(Ord. 357 §9, 1977)

The total value of prizes awarded during the conduct of any bingo games shall not exceed two hundred fifty dollars in cash or kind, or both, for each separate game which is held.

(Ord. 357 §10, 1977)