N.J.A.C. 13:47 — RULES OF LEGALIZED GAMES OF CHANCE (Subchapter 1 to 20)

When a license has been suspended or revoked, and the suspension or revocation is set aside, or the license is reinstated, the original license shall not be reissued. In such case the applicant shall file a new application, which shall be given a new number, as shall the license …

When a license has been denied, and the denial is set aside, the applicant shall again submit the application which was returned to him, and the clerk shall endorse a new application number thereon, and on the clerk's copy, and make entry thereof in the register, as though a new …

(a) Upon reviewing and determining whether to approve or deny a license application or an amendment to a license, the issuing authority shall record its findings and determination as to each of the conditions established by law. (b) Upon investigating and passing upon a suspensio…

(a) Where no specific ordinance setting fees due the licensing municipality exists, the licensing municipality shall charge a fee in an amount equal to the amount charged by the Control Commission. (b) Each licensing municipality may set by ordinance a licensing fee in an amount …

Upon making its findings and determination, the issuing authority shall within three days transmit a copy of its findings and determination to the Control Commission. The findings and determination together with the third copy of the application as provided in N.J.A.C. 13:47-3.3 …

(a) Upon receiving the finding and determination of the issuing authority, the municipal clerk shall, if the license is granted, compute the fee payable by law, collect any fee due the municipality or the State from the applicant organization and forward any fee due the State tog…

(a) Bingo licenses and Raffles licenses shall be issued on Form 6B/R which is hereby adopted. (b) In the case of Raffles licenses, the license must show the specific type and number of raffle games or allotment of prizes by chance to be conducted under the license. Notes N.J. Adm…

Upon the issuance of a license, the municipal clerk shall endorse a license number, which shall be the same as the application number, except that the prefix shall be BL for bingo licenses and RL for raffles licenses. Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 13:47-4.5 Amended by R.2008 d.25, eff…

The municipal clerk shall prepare licenses in triplicate, retaining one copy, issuing the original to the licensee and forwarding the second copy to the law enforcement agency of the municipality. Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 13:47-4.6 Amended by R.2008 d.25, effective 1/22/2008. See…

No licenses for the holding, operating and conducting of any game of chance shall be effective for a period of more than one year or for a date beyond the date upon which the organization's registration with the Control Commission expires. Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 13:47-4.7 Amend…

No joint license for the holding, operating and conducting of any game of chance shall be issued to two or more organizations. Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 13:47-4.8

(a) Except as provided in (d) below, all licensing fees are to be paid by check made payable to the Legalized Games of Chance Control Commission at the time the application is filed with the municipality, except as set forth in (c)6 below. (b) The licensing fees payable to the Co…

(a) Application to amend a license shall be made by an officer of the licensee on Form 7-A, hereby adopted. The application shall have annexed such proofs, signatures and verifications as would have been necessary if the changes were in the original application. (b) No licensee w…

The same number of copies of an application to amend a license shall be required as for an application for a license, and the application shall be processed and disposed of in the same manner. Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 13:47-5.2

When the issuing authority approves an amendment of a license, the original license shall be returned by the license holder and exchanged for the amended license, upon payment of any additional fee required. Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 13:47-5.3 Amended by R.2006 d.109, effective 3/…

If a game of chance cannot be held on the date stated in the license because of emergency weather conditions or because of other emergency conditions determined by the Control Commission, the organization may within 48 hours fix a new date for the game, which date shall be within…

(a) The officers of a licensee shall designate a bona fide, active member to be in charge of, and primarily responsible for, the conduct of the game of chance on each occasion. (b) The member in charge shall supervise all activities on the occasions for which he is in charge and …

(a) No person under the age of 18 years shall be permitted to participate as a player in any game of bingo. (b) No person under the age of 18 years shall be permitted to participate in any draw raffle or in any non-draw raffle offering and awarding cash or money as a prize. (c) E…

(a) No registered organization shall conduct any game(s) of chance more often than as set forth in this section:1. Bingo shall not be conducted more often than six days in any calendar month. 2. On-premises draw raffles awarding either cash or merchandise as prizes shall not be c…

(a) No item of expense shall be incurred or paid in connection with the holding, operating, or conducting of a game of chance, except such expenses as are bona fide items of reasonable amount for goods, wares and merchandise furnished or services rendered, which are reasonably ne…

(a) No bingo game shall be advertised by means of newspaper, radio, television, sound truck, or by means of billboards, posters or handbills, or any other means addressed to the general public; provided, however, that signs not exceeding 60 square feet, each, in area may be displ…

(a) A raffle may be advertised by means of newspaper, radio, television, sound truck, or by means of billboards, posters or handbills, or any other means addressed to the general public in accordance with the provisions of (c) through (e) below only in a municipality in which the…

The governing body of a municipality where a game of chance is to be held and its duly authorized agents and employees, and the Control Commission and its duly authorized agents and employees, may examine the books and records of any licensee, so far as those books and records re…

When any merchandise prize is awarded in a game of chance, its value for the purpose of the Bingo Licensing Law, the Raffles Licensing Law, and the rules and regulations of this chapter shall be its current retail price. No merchandise prize shall be redeemable or convertible int…

Equipment, prizes and supplies for games of chance shall not be purchased or sold at prices in excess of the usual cash price thereof and when purchased on conditional sale or on any other installment purchase arrangement shall be purchased only at the usual cash price with inter…

Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 13:47-6.18 Recodified from N.J.A.C. 13:47-6.17 by R.1998 d.428, effective 8/17/1998. See: 30 New Jersey Register 978(a), 30 New Jersey Register 3062(a). Former N.J.A.C. 13:47-6.18, Gifts other than prizes, was recodified to N.J.A.C. 13:47-6.19. Repealed b…

(a) A licensee may offer alcohol as a prize as part of a draw raffle provided all persons participating in the part of the draw raffle are at least 21 years old. Alcohol shall not be offered as a prize in any non-draw raffle. (b) Alcohol offered as a prize in a draw raffle shall …

(a) The officers of a licensee shall designate an officer or member to be in full charge of, and responsible for, the proper utilization of the entire net proceeds of the games of chance in accordance with the law and the rules and regulations of this Chapter. (b) Each registered…

(a) No licensee shall offer or award any prize consisting of real estate or any interest therein, bonds, shares of stock, securities or evidences of indebtedness, weapons, live animals (except a gift certificate redeemable for live, edible seafood), foreign or domestic coins (exc…

(a) Two or more unaffiliated organizations may not conduct bingo at the same place on the same day except as provided in N.J.A.C. 13:47-14.3(c). (b) Two or more unaffiliated organizations may conduct raffles at the same place at the same time. Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 13:47-6.21 …

(a) The net proceeds derived from the holding of a game of chance must be devoted to one or more of the authorized purposes within one year of the holding of the game of chance. Organizations failing to comply with this section will be required to show cause before the Commission…

Any organization licensed to conduct games of chance, which does not show that the conduct of games of chance during any one year period has produced reasonable net proceeds for authorized purposes, will be required to show cause before the Commission why its right to conduct gam…

Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 13:47-6.24 Repealed by R.2002 d.258, effective 8/5/2002. See: 34 New Jersey Register 986(a), 34 New Jersey Register 2864(a). Section was "Payment for equipment".

(a) A player in any game of chance authorized by the Control Commission shall play the game solely to win and shall take no action to improve another player's chance of winning. (b) A licensee who has reasonable cause to believe that a player has acted or is acting in violation o…

(a) The entire net proceeds of the games of chance must be devoted to authorized purposes. (b) A qualified organization shall not provide all or any portion of the net proceeds from a game of chance directly to an individual. A qualified organization may use net proceeds to pay e…

(a) No person shall assist in the holding, operating or conducting of a game of chance except: 1. Active members of the registered organization, active members of its parent organization, active members of an auxiliary organization, active members of an organization of which the …

(a) No commission, salary, compensation, reward or recompense may be paid to any member of the licensed organization or a member of an organization which is auxiliary to or affiliated with the licensed organization for holding, operating or conducting, or assisting in the holding…

(a) Each license issued for the conduct of a game of chance shall be conspicuously displayed at the place where the game of chance is being conducted at all times during the conduct of the game. (b) Whenever an organization shall conduct a game of chance it shall display, adjacen…

(a) The premises where any game of chance is being held, operated or conducted, or where it is intended that any game of chance shall be held, operated or conducted, or where it is intended that any equipment be used, shall at all times be open to inspection by the officers and a…

No municipality may authorize the holding, operating or conducting of a game of chance on Sunday, unless specifically so authorized by an ordinance duly adopted by the municipality. Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 13:47-6.8

No game of chance shall be conducted under any license on Sunday, unless the license specifically so provides. Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 13:47-6.9

Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 13:47-7.1 Amended by R.1989 d.431, effective 8/21/1989. See: 21 New Jersey Register 698(b), 21 New Jersey Register 2526(a). Added (e) and (f). Repealed by R.1995 d.41, effective 1/17/1995. See: 26 New Jersey Register 4326(a), 27 New Jersey Register 374(a)…

The particular arrangement of numbers required to be covered in order to win the game shall be clearly described and announced to the players immediately before each game is begun. Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 13:47-7.10

(a) The licensee shall describe and illustrate in the application for license the arrangement of numbers required to be covered in order to win each game and any bonus prizes offered pursuant to N.J.A.C. 13:47-7.2(c). (b) No arrangement of numbers shall require a player to cover …

(a) Within the limits contained in N.J.A.C. 13:47-7.2, alternate prizes may be offered depending upon the number of calls within which bingo is reached, provided the application for bingo license and the license so specify. (b) If a licensee avails itself of the provisions of thi…

(a) Prior to the commencement of bingo games on any occasion, the member in charge of the game shall cause to be made a verification of all objects to be placed in the receptacle and shall inspect the objects in the presence of a disinterested person to insure that all objects ar…

(a) When a caller has started vocally to announce a call, he shall complete the call of that number. (b) After the caller has started vocally to announce a call, if any person shall have gone bingo based upon the previous number called, such person shall share the designated priz…

(a) All prizes shall be awarded immediately upon verification of a winner. Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 13:47-7.15 Amended by R.1995 d.41, effective 1/17/1995. See: 26 New Jersey Register 4326(a), 27 New Jersey Register 374(a). Amended by R.2002 d.258, effective 8/5/2002. See: 34 New…

No licensee shall conduct more than 35 bingo games on a single occasion. Notes N.J. Admin. Code § 13:47-7.16

No licensee shall allow or permit the playing for money or other valuable thing of any game not licensed and held, operated and conducted pursuant to the provisions of the Bingo Licensing Law, N.J.S.A. 5:8-24 et seq., the Raffles Licensing Law, N.J.S.A. 5:8-50 et seq., or the pro…