Title 05, Amusements and Sports

When a permit is suspended or revoked, the permittee shall surrender the permit to the department on or before the effective date of the suspension or revocation. A permit is not valid beyond the effective date of the suspension or revocation, whether surrendered or not.

(a) The department shall adopt regulations under AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act) necessary to carry out this chapter covering, but not limited to, (1) the issuance, renewal, and revocation of permits, licenses, and vendor registrations; (2) a method of ascertaining net pr…

The department may examine or have examined the books and records of a permittee, an operator, a registered vendor, or a person licensed to manufacture or to distribute pull-tab games in the state. The department may issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses and the product…

(a) A municipality or a qualified organization issued a permit under this chapter shall file a report with the department by the 45th day following each calendar quarter in which the permittee had gross receipts of $50,000 or more from activities authorized under this chapter. Th…

(a) An operator shall file a report with the department by the last business day of the month following each calendar quarter in which an activity was conducted. The report must include, for each authorizing permittee on whose behalf an activity was conducted during the quarter, …

(a) An operator shall file a monthly report with each authorizing permittee for which the operator has conducted an activity during the preceding month. The report must include a daily summary of activity conducted under the permit issued to the authorizing permittee and an accou…

Before April 15 of each year, the department shall prepare a detailed report containing a summary of all reports required of permittees and operators. The attorney general and the commissioner of public safety shall, within 10 days after the convening of the legislature each year…

(a) The applications and reports to the department required by this chapter shall be signed under penalty of unsworn falsification in the second degree by the following person, as applicable: (1) the member in charge for the qualified organization; (2) a person authorized to sign…

If, after notice and hearing, the department determines that a person has violated a provision of this chapter related to gambling and the person is a licensee or permittee under AS 04, the department shall provide notice of the violation to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.

(a) The department may issue a permit to a municipality or qualified organization. The permit gives the municipality or qualified organization the privilege of conducting bingo, raffles and lotteries, pull-tab games, freeze-up classics, ice classics, race classics, rain classics,…

(a) If a person has been convicted of a violation of a law of this state that is, or a law or ordinance of another jurisdiction that would be if it had been committed in this state, a felony, or a violation of a law or ordinance of this state or another jurisdiction that is a cri…

The activities specified in AS 05.15.100 may be permitted as a privilege and do not confer a right upon any person to conduct the activities.

(a) Each municipality or qualified organization that applies for a permit under this chapter shall designate a member in charge and at least one alternate member in charge. The member in charge and alternate members in charge designated must have passed a test formulated by the d…

(a) A municipality or qualified organization holding a permit to conduct an activity under this chapter may enter into a contract with an operator licensed under this chapter to conduct on behalf of the municipality or qualified organization those activities permitted under the a…

An applicant shall be a municipality or qualified organization to be eligible for a permit.

(a) A person, municipality, or qualified organization may not conduct an activity subject to this chapter on behalf of a municipality or qualified organization unless the person, municipality, or qualified organization has received an operator's license issued by the department. …

A municipality may by ordinance prohibit an operator or a vendor from conducting activities under this chapter within the municipality.

(a) The department shall revoke the license of an operator who does not (1) report an adjusted gross income of at least 15 percent of gross income annually based on the total operation of the operator; or (2) pay to each authorizing permittee annually at least 30 percent of the a…

The department may supplement the definitions of qualified organizations and activities by regulations adopted under this chapter adding to the definitions additional requirements that the department considers necessary for the best interests of the public or for the proper admin…

(a) The department may not issue or renew a permit except upon satisfactory proof that the applicant is a municipality or qualified organization, the activity may be permitted under this chapter, and the issuance of a permit is not detrimental to the best interests of the public.…

(a) Two to six municipalities or qualified organizations, or a combination of two to six municipalities and qualified organizations, may jointly apply for a multiple-beneficiary permit under AS 05.15.100(d). The commissioner may not issue or renew a permit except upon satisfactor…

(a) Except as provided in (c) of this section, the authority to conduct the activity authorized by this chapter is contingent upon the dedication of the net proceeds of the charitable gaming activity to the awarding of prizes to contestants or participants and to political, educa…

(a) The only expenses that may be incurred or paid in connection with the operation of an activity under a permit issued under this chapter are bona fide expenses reasonably necessary for (1) goods, wares, and merchandise necessary for the operation of the activity; (2) personal …

(a) An operator shall pay net proceeds to the authorizing permittee by check. (b) If the department finds that an operator has incurred expenses that are not authorized under AS 05.15.160, the department shall order the operator to refund to the authorizing permittee the amount o…

(a) The bond or security filed under AS 05.15.122(b) must be made payable to the department and must be conditioned upon payment of the amounts due to the department and payment of net proceeds due to the authorizing permittee. If the operator fails to make the required payments,…

(a) The department may suspend, for a period of up to one year, or revoke a permit, license, or vendor registration, after giving notice to and an opportunity to be heard by the permittee or licensee if the permittee, licensee, or vendor (1) violates or fails to comply with a req…

(a) This chapter does not authorize the use of playing cards, dice, roulette wheels, coin-operated instruments or machines, or other objects or instruments used, designed, or intended primarily for gaming or gambling, or any other method or implement not expressly authorized by t…

(a) A person may not manufacture pull-tabs in the state, and may not sell or distribute a pull-tab that the person has manufactured outside of the state to persons in the state, unless the person has received a pull-tab manufacturer's license issued by the department. (b) The dep…

(a) A person may not distribute pull-tab games unless the person has received a pull-tab distributor's license issued by the department. (b) The department may issue a pull-tab distributor's license to a person who pays an annual fee of $1,000. (c) Pull-tabs may be distributed on…

A pull-tab distributor shall collect a tax of three percent of an amount equal to the gross receipts less prizes awarded on each series of pull-tabs distributed. The pull-tab distributor shall pay to the department the tax collected in the preceding month at the time that the rep…

Each series of pull-tabs distributed in the state must be sealed and have a serial number label issued by the National Association of Fundraising Ticket Manufacturers or other serial number label approved by the department and may be distributed only to (1) a municipality or a qu…

(a) A municipality or qualified organization may operate pull-tab games. Pull-tabs shall be obtained from a licensed distributor. (b) A pull-tab series may not be sold at more than one location during the same day. (c) Pull-tabs from different series may not be mixed or combined,…

(a) A permittee may contract with a vendor to sell pull-tabs on behalf of the permittee if the permittee first registers the vendor with the department by applying for registration on a form prescribed by the department and by submitting the registration fee of $50 for each locat…

If any provision of this chapter, or regulation adopted under this chapter, is determined to be unlawful, then all permits issued in connection with the licensed activity to which the unlawful provision or regulation related are cancelled.

(a) If the commissioner determines that a person has engaged in an act or practice in violation of this chapter or a regulation adopted under this chapter, the commissioner may, after giving reasonable notice to the person and an opportunity for the person to be heard, issue an o…

(a) The following question, appearing alone, may be placed before the voters of a municipality or an established village in accordance with AS 05.15.625: “Shall charitable gaming in ....... (name of municipality or village) be prohibited? (yes or no)”. (b) The following question,…

(a) The local governing body of a municipality, whenever a number of registered voters equal to at least 10 percent of the number of votes cast at the last regular municipal election petition the local governing body to do so, shall place upon a separate ballot at the next regula…

(a) A person may not use broadcasting to promote or conduct a charitable gaming activity under this chapter except that a person may use (1) broadcasting to promote a fish derby, a dog mushers' contest, a type of classic defined in AS 05.15.690, or a raffle and lottery; or (2) th…

(a) A person who knowingly violates or aids or solicits a person to violate this chapter is guilty of a violation for the first offense and a class B misdemeanor for the second and each subsequent offense. (b) A person who, with the intent to mislead a public servant in the perfo…

In this chapter, (1) “adjusted gross income” means gross income less prizes awarded and state, federal, and municipal taxes paid or owed on the income; (2) “animal classic” means a game of chance in which prizes are awarded for the correct guess (A) of which numbered or colored h…

This chapter may be cited as the Alaska Gaming Reform Act.