Sec.7-169-8a. Facilities

(a) Premises required to be open for inspection. The premises where any game of bingo is conducted or where it is intended that any game of bingo be conducted or that any bingo equipment be used shall, at reasonable times, be open to inspection by the executive director or his duly appointed representatives.

(b) Accommodations to be furnished players. Authorized bingo games shall be open to the general public. Each player must be furnished, at no extra charge, a chair and place with sufficient room to play. The area must be free of hazards to safety with means of egress clearly designated. Under no circumstances shall a member of the public be admitted to a building or room where authorized bingo is to be played, if such admittance will violate the lawful occupancy limit of such building or room.

(c) Certain notices required to be posted. Each organization authorized to conduct bingo shall conspicuously post within that portion of the premises where bingo is played one or more notices as required by the executive director containing certain designated rules governing the conduct of bingo and its bingo permit. The notice or notices shall be in the form prescribed and may be provided by the division of special revenue.

(d) The executive director may, for good cause, require each organization authorized to conduct bingo to retain the services of one or more uniformed police officers of the city or town where the bingo session is conducted who shall be in attendance from the time sale of cards or bingo opportunities commence until net proceeds have been secured by deposit or otherwise. Such police officer(s) may be compensated at the rate not to exceed the rate currently prevailing for such services in said city or town. Compensation of such police officer(s) shall be a reasonable and necessary expense incidental to the conduct of bingo, payment of which is authorized pursuant to section 7-169-27a subsection (b) of these administrative regulations governing the operation of bingo.

(Effective March 22, 1989)