Licensees may only hold fund-raising events (FREs) to raise funds for organizational purposes. Licensees must operate the FRE with a profit motive. A "profit motive" means a gambling activity conducted for purposes of obtaining funds for a charitable or nonprofit organization's programs. FRE licensees must make a good faith effort to ensure that the expenses paid for all phases of the FRE are less than the total gross receipts received.

Licensees must notify local law enforcement agencies in writing of the time and place of the FRE at least ten days before conducting the FRE.

(1) If a fund-raising event (FRE) licensee cancels an FRE, they must:

(a) Notify us and local law enforcement in advance; and

(b) Return the original license to us.

(2) If a licensee changes the time, date, or location of an FRE, they must:

(a) Notify us in writing at least ten days in advance. The notice must include a signed statement from the chief executive officer that the appropriate law enforcement agency has been notified of the change; and

(b) Pay the appropriate fee; and

(c) Return the original license to us.

(1) The calendar year net receipt limits of RCW 9.46.0233 apply to all FRE licensees. Net receipts are all wagers and bets received minus money used to purchase prizes and pay out cash prizes.

(2) Any licensees exceeding the calendar year net receipt limit must distribute excess net receipts within thirty days to another bona fide charitable or nonprofit organization that either:

(a) We license; or

(b) Meets the criteria set forth in RCW 9.46.0209.

Licensees who hold FREs which continue past midnight on December 31 into the new calendar year may treat each hour of the event held as if the hours had occurred solely in the calendar year recorded on their license application. These hours are counted in computing and applying limits on the net receipts and on the number of FREs, or consecutive hours of those FREs, in the calendar year for which the license was issued.

Licensees must develop house rules to govern the scope and manner of all gambling activities they will conduct during the FRE and prominently post these rules in the area where they will conduct the FRE. At a minimum, these rules must include:

(1) Game rules; and

(2) Wager limits; and

(3) Payout restrictions; and

(4) That tipping is prohibited.

(1) Wager limits must not exceed ten dollars. However, raffle wagers must not exceed the limits in RCW 9.46.0277; and

(2) There are no limits on wagers made using scrip or poker tournament chips.

Licensees must not allow any participants at FREs to wager money or other items of value against any other participant, such as in side bets in poker, at the FRE.

Licensees must use chips or scrip or coin for wagering at FREs. Limited FRE licensees must use chips and scrip only. Licensees must issue the chips or scrip only during and at the FRE itself. Licensees must not redeem chips or scrip after the FRE has concluded.

FRE licensees must prepare a list of all persons from their organizations participating in the management or operation of the FRE. The list must be available on the premises of the FRE and contain, at a minimum, the name, address, telephone number, and a brief statement signed by the chief executive officer certifying that each member listed is a full and regular member of the organization.

Licensees must set up and maintain a central accounting system in a format we prescribe for all activities conducted at the FRE. Licensees must obtain accounting forms from us. The central accounting system must provide for the following minimum separation of duties:

(1) A cashier to handle the beginning bank, provide chips to the games, redeem chips and cash checks for the players; and

(2) A runner to transport money, chips, and lock boxes between gambling stations at the event; and

(3) Floor supervisors to supervise not more than six gambling stations each and who must supervise the transfer of lock boxes and chips and change trays to the count room; and

(4) Gambling station operators to control the activity at a specific gambling station.

Licensees must have an area for counting money separate from the area where gambling is taking place. Licensees must use the forms and format we prescribe for the count. Licensees must:

(1) Bring all money from the FRE to the counting area; and

(2) Assign three cashiers to count the money. Two cashiers must be in the counting area at all times money is present; and

(3) Have at least two cashiers verify the beginning count and sign the record; and

(4) Restrict access to the counting area to the cashiers and to the runner(s) who transport money or chips to or from those stations; and

(5) Transfer all money and chips to the counting area at the end of the day or event for final tabulation, reconciliation, and verification; and

(6) Have at least three bankers or cashiers verify the final tabulation and reconciliation and sign the verification.

Licensees must have numbered games stations with separate lock boxes and money paddles for each station. "Money paddle" means a wooden or plastic implement used to push money into the lock box slot.

(1) The money paddle must remain in the lock box slot whenever it is not in use. The money slot of the lock box must not exceed three and one-half inches in length and one-half inch in width; and

(2) Dealers must exchange all currency presented by the players for coin or chips and the dealer must immediately place it in the lock box; and

(3) Licensees must keep the keys to all lock boxes in the counting area at all times; and

(4) Only cashiers may open the lock boxes and they must open them only in the counting area.

Licensees must maintain records in sufficient detail to determine the net receipts of each gambling station operated. Licensees must:

(1) Record a reconciliation of the ending cash on hand to net receipts; and

(2) Deposit the ending cash on hand within two banking days of the conclusion of the fund-raising event and must include a validated deposit slip as part of the records; and

(3) Not spend any of the ending cash before the deposit.

Winners must be present and participating to win at a fund-raising event.

(1) Licensees must use only full and regular members of the charitable or nonprofit organization to manage or assist in the operation of an FRE. "Full and regular membership" is defined in WAC 230-03-140.

(2) Licensees may also use "members" and "bona fide members" as defined in RCW 9.46.0261 to manage or assist in the operation of an FRE.

Generally, licensees must not pay people to work at an FRE. However, in the following circumstances, licensees may compensate people:

(1) Licensees may allow people who are not members of the organization to perform incidental functions, which we will not consider "management or operation" under RCW 9.46.120. These incidental functions include:

(a) Serving food and drink to participants in the FRE; or

(b) Parking cars; or

(c) Maintaining general crowd control and order at the FRE; or

(d) Detecting people cheating, as long as that employee is a commissioned law enforcement officer with the power to make arrests in the jurisdiction in which the FRE is being held or is the employee of a commercial securities service firm licensed to provide these services by the city, town, or county in which the FRE is being conducted; or

(e) Providing janitorial functions; or

(f) Supervising these people, as long as the licensee does not pay these employees more than the local prevailing level of payment for supervising at events other than FREs.

(2) Licensees may also furnish food and nonalcoholic beverages to full and regular members who volunteer as long as the food or drink does not exceed twenty dollars per volunteer per FRE.

(3) If a licensee's employee is also a full and regular member of the organization or its auxiliary and is not scheduled for assigned employee duties at the time of the FRE, the employee may assist in the FRE.

All fund-raising event workers must wear a name tag at all times. Name tags must include at least the member's first initial and last name or first name and first initial of the last name and the name of the organization.

(1) Licensees may operate FREs on commercial business premises only if:

(a) The commercial business is closed to the public at all times during which the licensee conducts the FRE; or

(b) The portion of the business premises in which the licensee conducts the FRE is separate and apart from the portion used by the commercial business. In this rule, "separate and apart" means having a permanent or temporary partition. The partition must:

(i) Have not more than two designated openings to limit pedestrian flow; and

(ii) Provide a solid, distinct separation between the portion of the premises where the licensee conducts the FRE and the portion of the premises the commercial business uses.

(2) Licensees must not conduct an FRE on or within a commercial business premises while any other organization is conducting an FRE on or within the same commercial business premises.

(1) Licensees must ensure the owners, managers, or employees of the commercial business premises used for the FRE do not participate in the operation of any of the FRE activities.

(2) Licensees must not hold an FRE on the premises of a commercial business if any of the licensee's officers are owners, managers, or employees of the commercial business.

Licensees must have, and exercise, complete control over the portion of the premises where the FRE takes place at all times they conduct the FRE. However, if the sale, service, or consumption of liquor is permitted in that portion of the premises, the liquor licensee or permittee must be responsible for compliance with liquor laws and regulations.

(1) FRE licensees must purchase, lease, or rent gambling equipment only from a licensed distributor or another FRE licensee.

(2) FRE licensees may sell their equipment to other FRE licensees or distributors.

(3) FRE licensees may loan or rent their own equipment for up to four events per year without obtaining an FRE equipment distributor license if:

(a) The FREs take place within the twelve calendar month period following the licensee's last FRE; and

(b) The licensee ensures their equipment is only used in FREs or other authorized activities, such as bingo.

(4) FRE equipment distributor licensees must sell, rent, or lease gambling equipment, premises, or services for use in an FRE on commercially reasonable terms.

(5) Licensees must make all rentals at a lump sum or hourly rate and rentals must not be based on a percentage of the income or profit from the FRE.

Licensees must operate pull-tabs solely under their FRE license, not under a separate pull-tab license. If licensees sell pull-tabs, they must:

(1) Purchase the pull-tabs for specific use at FREs and record the identification and inspection services stamps on the form we provide; and

(2) Mix the pull-tabs and sell them out of a clear container. Licensees must not use a coin-operated dispensing device; and

(3) Use the manufacturer's set price for each specific series; and

(4) Have no more than three pull-tab series out for play at one time; and

(5) Sell all pull-tabs from a booth or similar confined area which prohibits public access to the pull-tabs; and

(6) Treat each pull-tab series as a separately numbered gambling station. Each series must have a separate corresponding lock box, money paddle, and chip tray for making change and payment of prizes. The attendant(s) on duty must immediately place all currency, coins, or chips used to purchase pull-tabs in the corresponding lock box. All change given back to players must be in the form of chips or coins from the chip tray; and

(7) Deface all winning pull-tabs when they are cashed in and put them in the corresponding lock box; and

(8) Pay winning pull-tabs in chips and coins only, or players may cash in winning pull-tabs for additional pull-tabs only from the same series; and

(9) Comply with all other rules and laws for pull-tabs in Title 230 WAC and chapter 9.46 RCW.

When attendants remove a series from play, a runner must take the series, including the flare, the corresponding lock box, and chip tray to the count room.

(1) Cashiers must immediately record all gross gambling receipts collected, prizes paid, and tabs sold and write the totals on the pull-tab accounting report we furnish according to the instructions attached; and

(2) After completing the count, cashiers must package or band winning pull-tabs separately and place them with the unused portion of that particular series in the original shipping container. The licensee must retain the used series for one year; and

(3) At the completion of the FRE, licensees must:

(a) Take all series still out for play to the count room and follow count room procedures; and

(b) Return all unopened pull-tab series to the licensed distributor who sold the series for a full refund. Licensees must not sell or operate the unopened series under their separate pull-tab license.

Fund-raising event licensees must not operate punch boards as part of the FRE.

Licensees must operate bingo solely under their FRE license, not under a separate bingo license. If licensees operate bingo, they must:

(1) Count income from bingo against the maximum net receipts authorized for FREs; and

(2) Comply with all of our rules for bingo licensees with gross gambling receipts of one hundred fifty thousand dollars or less in their previous license year.

(1) Licensees that have a separate bingo license and use disposable bingo cards at the FRE must follow the inventory control procedures for disposable cards in the bingo rules chapter.

(2) Licensees that do not have a separate bingo license must keep all unused disposable cards or packets as part of the FRE record. Licensees may return unused cards or packets to the distributor if there are no breaks in the consecutive card/control numbers. Licensees must receive documentation from the distributor of the total number of cards or packets returned and the beginning and ending card/control numbers.

(1) Licensees may operate raffles at FREs in one of two ways:

(a) Solely under their fund-raising event license. Licensees must conduct all aspects of the raffle during the FRE. Income from this raffle counts toward the FRE limits; or

(b) Under a separate raffle license. Licensees must sell all tickets for the raffle and deposit all tickets in the drawing receptacle before the FRE and hold the raffle drawing at the FRE.

(2) For raffles conducted under an FRE license, licensees must:

(a) Not sell single FRE raffle tickets for more than twenty-five dollars per ticket; and

(b) Not require a person to buy more than one ticket; and

(c) Use consecutively numbered tickets; and

(d) Ensure that each ticket has a separate and equal chance to win; and

(e) Randomly draw the winning ticket; and

(f) Operate and account for raffles as independent gambling stations at the FRE; and

(g) Maintain records to verify gross sales of tickets; and

(h) Report all FRE raffle income, prizes awarded, and other expenses and these amounts count toward the maximum net receipts authorized for FREs.

Licensees may operate blackjack or "21" at licensed FREs according to the following requirements:

(1) Dealers must deal all cards from a dealing shoe. The deal must begin with a shoe containing at least four full decks of cards and proceed until the cards are reshuffled, withdrawn for examination, or replaced. The shoe must then be refilled with at least four decks of cards and the process repeated; and

(2) Dealers must deal cards to the players face up on the table; and

(3) Players must not pick up, shuffle, or cut the cards; and

(4) Licensees must use only standard size playing cards; and

(5) Dealers may shuffle the cards using a device, apparatus, or mechanism.

Licensees may operate poker tournaments at fund-raising events. Licensees must:

(1) Adopt and prominently post tournament rules; and

(2) Count all money paid to enter a tournament or purchase chips as a wager when determining their ten thousand dollar net receipts limits; and

(3) Not allow chips used in poker tournaments to have a monetary value; and

(4) Allow chips to be redeemed for cash and/or merchandise prizes; and

(5) Maintain a record of all prizes awarded, including, at least:

(a) The amount paid for each prize; and

(b) For donated prizes, the name of the donor and a description of the prize(s) donated; and

(c) The name and complete address of each winner.

FRE licensees may jointly conduct an FRE if they:

(1) Do not exceed their individual FRE limit for the calendar year or a single event; and

(2) Prepare a list of all persons from their organizations participating in the management or operation of the FRE. The list must be available on the premises of the FRE and contain, at a minimum, the name, address, telephone number, and a brief statement signed by the chief executive officer certifying that each member listed is a full and regular member of the organization; and

(3) Keep records which clearly disclose the amount of money received and spent in connection with the joint FRE.

The lead organization must:

(1) Be responsible for the central accounting system; and

(2) Comply with all recordkeeping and reporting rules; and

(3) Deposit the ending cash on hand; and

(4) Prepare and submit a fund-raising event report; and

(5) Disburse all funds due to any participating organizations by check within thirty days following the event.

A limited FRE means:

(1) Only members and guests of the organization may participate in a limited FRE. A limited FRE is not open to the public; and

(2) Only merchandise prizes, not cash, are awarded; and

(3) The organization may hire a licensed FRE equipment distributor to provide the equipment and staff to operate gambling stations; and

(4) The organization may deduct the cost of equipment rental and services when calculating the FRE net receipts limits.

(1) Licensees must:

(a) Require participants to purchase scrip with cash; and

(b) Exchange scrip at gambling stations for chips; and

(c) Allow only full and regular members to make cash transactions for scrip and maintain records during the FRE; and

(d) Disclose the prizes offered. The costs of prizes must not exceed fair market value. The organization may advertise the prize to the participants at the retail value; and

(e) Prevent the cost of all prizes from exceeding ten percent of the gross revenue of the event; and

(f) Comply with all other FRE rules.

(2) Licensees may allow unlimited wagering when using scrip and poker tournament chips.

Limited FREs licensees must comply with WAC 230-06-070. In order to show compliance with FRE limits, licensees also must provide details regarding how much of the admission fees from the limited FRE they allocate to gambling scrip and how much they allocate to other activities, such as meals and entertainment.

(1) The FRE equipment distributor must not share in any way in the proceeds of the FRE.

(2) Employees of the FRE equipment distributor must:

(a) Wear a name tag with, at a minimum, their first name and the full name of the distributor; and

(b) Not handle cash transactions; and

(c) Not allow participants to purchase chips with cash.

(1) Licensees must not sell pull-tabs at limited FREs.

(2) Licensees may operate poker tournaments. Tournament rules must be established and prominently posted.

(3) Licensees must ensure that participants play only for merchandise prizes.

(4) Licensees may allow participants to exchange chips or scrip for raffle tickets at the end of a limited FRE to determine who will win merchandise prizes.

(5) Licensees may only sell bingo cards to participants in exchange for scrip.