366 sections in this chapter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-241.03 Bingo occasions; additional restrictions; department; powers.
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(1) Irrespective of the number of organizations authorized to hold bingo occasions within a premises: (a) No more than two bingo occasions per calendar week shall be held within a premises except as otherwise provided in subsection (3) of this section; and (b) No more than four l…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-241.04 Premises; rental or lease; requirements.
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A premises may be rented or leased by a licensed organization for the purpose of conducting bingo. Such rental or lease agreement shall be in writing and may include the rental or lease of personal property, excluding bingo equipment, which is necessary in order to conduct a bing…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-241.05 Bingo equipment; obtain from licensed distributor; exceptions.
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(1) A licensed organization shall purchase or otherwise obtain bingo equipment only from a licensed distributor, except that a licensed organization may rent or lease bingo equipment, excluding disposable paper bingo cards, only from: (a) A licensed distributor; or (b) The licens…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-241.06 Bingo occasion; alcoholic beverages prohibited; exception; food; beverages; sale; expenses.
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No alcoholic beverages shall be sold or served to the public during a bingo occasion unless it is a limited period bingo or special event bingo at which no one under eighteen years of age is permitted to play bingo. Nonalcoholic beverages, as well as food, may be served and sold …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-241.07 Advertising; limitations; exception.
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Only a licensed organization or a qualifying nonprofit organization may advertise a bingo occasion, a limited period bingo, or a special event bingo. No advertising for any bingo occasion or occasions conducted by any organization shall include any reference to an aggregate value…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-241.08 Bingo game; participation; conduct of bingo; restrictions.
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(1) No person under eighteen years of age shall play or participate in any bingo game, except that any person may play bingo at a limited period bingo or special event bingo if (a) no alcoholic beverages are served and (b) no prize or prizes to be awarded exceed fifty dollars in …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-241.09 Bingo chairperson or alternate bingo chairperson; licensed gaming manager; presence during bingo occasion; when required.
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(1) A bingo chairperson or another member of the licensed organization who has been designated as an alternate bingo chairperson shall be present during the duration of each bingo occasion conducted pursuant to a Class I license. (2) A licensed gaming manager shall be present dur…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-241.10 Bingo cards; requirements; department; rules and regulations.
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(1) An organization licensed to conduct bingo under a Class II license shall not use any reusable hard bingo card or shutter card to conduct bingo. (2) All licensed organizations shall accurately account for and report the sale, use, rental, or lease of all bingo cards used at ea…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-255 Bingo games; random selection; authorized designators or devices.
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(1)(a) Only the following means of random selection of the numbered designators shall be used in the conduct of any bingo game: (i) An electrically operated blower machine containing balls which the operator may take from the air one at a time while the blower is in operation, or…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-255.01 Bingo cards, equipment, and supplies; requirements.
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All bingo cards and any other bingo equipment or supplies furnished, sold, rented, or leased for use at any bingo occasion subject to regulation under the Nebraska Bingo Act shall conform in all respects to the specifications imposed by rule and regulation by the department, incl…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-255.02 Prizes; limitations.
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(1) Irrespective of whether a bingo game or a bingo occasion is conducted jointly by two or more licensed organizations, no prize for a single bingo game shall exceed one thousand dollars in value and the aggregate value of all bingo prizes at any bingo occasion shall not exceed …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-255.03 Gross receipts; segregation; books and records; commingling of funds.
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(1) The gross receipts, less the amount awarded in prizes at each bingo occasion, shall be segregated from all other revenue of a licensed organization and placed in a separate bingo checking account of the licensed organization. All lawful purpose donations and all bingo expense…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-255.04 Expenses; limitations; allocation; payment of workers; expenses; how paid.
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(1) No expense shall be incurred or amounts paid in connection with the conduct of bingo by a licensed organization except those which are reasonable and necessary. (2) A licensed organization shall not spend more than fourteen percent of its bingo gross receipts to pay the expen…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-255.05 Licensed organization; reports required.
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(1) A licensed organization shall report annually to the department, on a form prescribed by the department, a complete and accurate accounting of its gross receipts. The annual report shall demonstrate that the gross receipts less cash prizes paid have been retained in the organ…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-255.06 Commercial lessor's license; when required; application; form; contents; fee; bingo equipment; restrictions; conduct of bingo; restrictions; exemption.
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(1) An individual, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, or organization which will be leasing a premises to one or more organizations for the conduct of bingo and which will receive more than two hundred fifty dollars per month as aggregate total rent from leasing…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-255.07 Distributor's license; application; form; contents; renewal; fee; exemption; distributor, spouse, or employee; restrictions on activities.
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(1) Any individual, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation which desires to sell, lease, distribute, or otherwise provide bingo equipment in this state to a licensed commercial lessor or a licensed organization for use in a bingo occasion which is regulated by the…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-255.08 Distributor; purchase or sale of bingo equipment; restrictions; records; reporting.
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(1) A licensed distributor shall purchase or otherwise obtain bingo equipment only from a licensed manufacturer. (2) A licensed distributor shall sell or otherwise supply bingo equipment for use in a bingo game regulated by the Nebraska Bingo Act only to a licensed organization, …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-255.09 Manufacturer's license; application; form; contents; renewal; fee; exemption; manufacturer, spouse, or employee; restriction on activities.
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(1) Any individual, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation which desires to sell or otherwise supply bingo equipment in this state to a licensed distributor shall first apply for and obtain a manufacturer's license from the department. Manufacturers' licenses may …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-255.10 Manufacturer; sale of bingo equipment; restrictions; records; department; powers.
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(1) A licensed manufacturer shall sell or otherwise supply bingo equipment in this state only to a licensed distributor or a federally recognized Indian tribe, except that nothing in this section shall prohibit a licensed manufacturer from selling or otherwise supplying bingo equ…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-262 Violations; penalties; enforcement; venue.
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(1) Except when another penalty is specifically provided, any person, licensee, or permittee, or employee or agent thereof, who violates any provision of the Nebraska Bingo Act, or who causes, aids, abets, or conspires with another to cause any person, licensee, or permittee, or …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-262.01 Tax Commissioner; power to seize contraband; effect.
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(1) The Tax Commissioner or his or her agents or employees, at the direction of the Tax Commissioner, or any peace officer of this state may seize, without a warrant, the following contraband goods found any place in this state: (a) Any bingo supplies and equipment which do not c…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-263 Violations; standing to sue.
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Any person in this state, including any law enforcement official, who has cause to believe that (1) any licensed organization, (2) any lessor of facilities or bingo equipment and supplies used for a bingo occasion, (3) any person conducting any game of bingo, (4) any employee or …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-264 Civil action; relief permitted.
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In any civil action commenced pursuant to section 9-263, a court may allow: (1) A temporary restraining order or injunction, with or without a bond as the court may direct, prohibiting a party to the action from continuing or engaging in such conduct, aiding in such conduct, or d…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-265 Civil procedure statutes; applicability.
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Proceedings under section 9-263 shall be subject to and governed by the district court civil procedure statutes. Issues properly raised shall be tried and determined as in other civil actions in equity. All orders, judgments, and decrees may be reviewed as other orders, judgments…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-266 Reports and records; disclosure; limitations; violation; penalty.
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(1) Except in accordance with a proper judicial order or as otherwise provided by this section or other law, it shall be a Class I misdemeanor for the Tax Commissioner or any employee or agent of the Tax Commissioner to make known, in any manner whatsoever, the contents of any re…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-301 Act, how cited.
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Sections 9-301 to 9-356 shall be known and may be cited as the Nebraska Pickle Card Lottery Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-302 Purposes of act.
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(1) The purpose of the Nebraska Pickle Card Lottery Act is to protect the health and welfare of the public, to protect the economic welfare and interest in pickle card sales and winnings, to insure that the profits derived from the operation of lottery by the sale of pickle cards…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-303 Definitions, where found.
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For purposes of the Nebraska Pickle Card Lottery Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions found in sections 9-304 to 9-321.03 shall be used.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-304 Allowable expenses, defined.
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Allowable expenses shall mean: (1) All costs associated with the purchasing, printing, or manufacturing of any items to be used or distributed to participants; (2) All office expenses; (3) All promotional expenses; (4) All salaries of persons employed to operate the lottery by th…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-305 Cancel, defined.
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Cancel shall mean to discontinue all rights and privileges to hold a license for up to three years.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-305.01 Definite profit, defined.
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Definite profit shall mean the gross proceeds from a pickle card unit less all of the possible prizes in the unit.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-306 Department, defined.
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Department shall mean the Department of Revenue.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-306.01 Designated premises, defined.
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Designated premises shall mean one location selected by a licensed organization at which individual pickle cards may be sold as opportunities for participation in a lottery by the sale of pickle cards. Only one of the following types of locations may be selected as a designated p…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-307 Distributor, defined.
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Distributor shall mean any person licensed pursuant to section 9-330, who purchases or otherwise obtains pickle card units from manufacturers and sells, distributes, or otherwise provides pickle card units in this state to licensed organizations.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-308 Gross proceeds, defined.
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Gross proceeds shall mean the total possible receipts from the sale of all pickle cards in any pickle card unit.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-308.01 Gross profit, defined.
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Gross profit shall mean the definite profit from the sale of a pickle card unit less any commission paid by a licensed organization to a pickle card operator selling individual pickle cards on behalf of the licensed organization.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-309 Lawful purpose, defined.
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(1) Lawful purpose, for a licensed organization making a donation of its net profits derived from its lottery by the sale of pickle cards solely for its own organization, shall mean donating such net profits for any activity which benefits and is conducted by the organization, in…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-310 License, defined.
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License shall mean any license to conduct a lottery by the sale of pickle cards as provided in section 9-326, any license for a utilization-of-funds member as provided in section 9-327, any sales agent's license as provided in section 9-329, any pickle card operator's license as …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-311 Licensed organization, defined.
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Licensed organization shall mean a nonprofit organization or volunteer fire company or volunteer first-aid, rescue, ambulance, or emergency squad licensed to conduct a lottery by the sale of pickle cards under the Nebraska Pickle Card Lottery Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-312 Lottery by the sale of pickle cards, defined.
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Lottery by the sale of pickle cards shall mean any gambling scheme in which participants pay or agree to pay something of value for a pickle card. Any lottery by the sale of pickle cards shall be conducted pursuant to and in accordance with the Nebraska Pickle Card Lottery Act. L…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-313 Manufacturer, defined.
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Manufacturer shall mean any person who assembles from raw materials or subparts a completed piece or pieces of pickle cards and pickle card units.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-314 Member, defined.
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Member shall mean a person who has qualified for and been admitted to membership in a licensed organization pursuant to its bylaws, articles of incorporation, charter, rules, or other written statement for purposes other than conducting activities under the Nebraska Pickle Card L…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-314.01 Net profit, defined.
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Net profit shall mean the gross profit from the sale of a pickle card unit less the unit cost and allowable expenses incurred by a licensed organization in connection with the sale of a pickle card unit.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-315 Pickle card, defined.
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Pickle card shall mean any disposable card, board, or ticket which accords a person an opportunity to win a cash prize by opening, pulling, detaching, or otherwise removing one or more tabs from the card, board, or ticket to reveal a set of numbers, letters, symbols, or configura…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-316 Pickle card operator, defined.
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Pickle card operator shall mean any sole proprietorship, partnership, limited liability company, or corporation which sells individual pickle cards on behalf of the licensed organization.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-317 Pickle card unit, defined.
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Pickle card unit shall mean a series or complete set of pickle cards, which consists of all winning and losing cards in a particular unit, set, series, deal, or scheme for a lottery by the sale of pickle cards, in the receptacle or box in and with which the unit of pickle cards i…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-317.01 Premises, defined.
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Premises shall mean a building or a distinct portion of a building and shall not include any area of land surrounding the building.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-319 Revoke, defined.
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Revoke shall mean to permanently void and recall all rights and privileges of an organization or a person to obtain a license.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-320 Sales agent, defined.
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Sales agent shall mean any person who markets, sells, or delivers any pickle card unit on behalf of a licensed organization to any licensed pickle card operator.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 9-321 Suspend, defined.
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Suspend shall mean to cause a temporary interruption of all rights and privileges of a license or the renewal thereof.