PRINTER'S NO. 3482
No. 2551 Session of 1998
INTRODUCED BY MARKOSEK, SAINATO, VAN HORNE, READSHAW, TRELLO,
GEORGE, GIGLIOTTI, DERMODY AND DeLUCA, APRIL 28, 1998
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, APRIL 28, 1998
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of December 19, 1988 (P.L.1262, No.156),
2 entitled, as amended, "An act providing for the licensing of
3 eligible organizations to conduct games of chance, for the
4 licensing of persons to distribute games of chance, for the
5 registration of manufacturers of games of chance, and for
6 suspensions and revocations of licenses and permits;
7 requiring records; providing for local referendum by
8 electorate; and prescribing penalties," increasing available
9 prizes.
10 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
11 hereby enacts as follows:
12 Section 1. Section 5 of the act of December 19, 1988
13 (P.L.1262, No.156), known as the Local Option Small Games of
14 Chance Act, amended December 19, 1990 (P.L.812, No.195), is
15 amended to read:
16 Section 5. Prize limits.
17 (a) Individual prize limit.--The maximum cash value which
18 may be awarded for any single chance shall be $500.
19 (b) Weekly limit.--No more than $5,000 in cash or
20 merchandise shall be awarded by any eligible organization in any
21 seven-day period.
1 (c) Limit on raffles.--No more than $5,000 in cash or
2 merchandise shall be awarded in raffles in any calendar month.
3 (d) Exception.--An eligible organization may conduct a
4 raffle and award a prize or prizes valued in excess of $500 each
5 only under the following conditions:
6 (1) The licensing authority has issued a special permit
7 for the raffle under section 11.
8 (2) Eligible organizations shall be eligible to receive
9 no more than two special permits in any licensed year except
10 that volunteer fire, ambulance and rescue organizations shall
11 be eligible to receive no more than three special permits in
12 any licensed year.
13 (3) Only one raffle may be conducted under each special
14 permit.
15 (4) The total cash value of all prizes shall be no more
16 than [$25,000] $50,000 for each raffle.
17 (e) Limit on daily drawings.--Daily drawings shall be
18 governed by the prize limitations contained in subsections (a)
19 and (b).
20 (f) Exception.--The prize limitation contained in
21 subsections (a) and (b) may be exceeded by a daily drawing under
22 the following circumstances: a daily drawing may award a prize
23 where the cash value is in excess of $500 if such prize is the
24 result of a carryover of a drawing or drawings which resulted
25 from the winning number in such drawing or drawings not being
26 among the eligible entrants in such drawings. Nothing contained
27 herein shall authorize the prize limitations as contained in
28 subsections (a) and (b) to be exceeded as a result of a failure
29 to conduct a drawing on an operating day during which chances
30 were sold for a daily drawing or for a daily drawing for which
19980H2551B3482 - 2 -
1 chances were sold in excess of $1 or for which more than one
2 chance was sold to an eligible participant.
3 (g) Daily drawing exception.--When a daily drawing is set up
4 or conducted in such a manner as to pay out or award 100% of the
5 gross revenues generated from such drawing, the limitations
6 contained in subsection (b) shall not apply.
7 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
D2L04JAM/19980H2551B3482 - 3 -