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563.05
(2) The department may promulgate rules requiring holders of licenses
4issued under this chapter to post a notice in a conspicuous place where a bingo
5occasion or raffle
drawing is
being conducted describing the procedures for filing a
6complaint against the holder.
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7Section
3. 563.90 of the statutes is renumbered 563.907 and amended to read:
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8563.907 Qualified organizations. Any local religious, charitable, service,
9fraternal or veterans organization or any organization to which contributions are
10deductible for federal income tax purposes or state income or franchise tax purposes,
11which has been in existence for one year immediately preceding its application for
12a license or which is chartered by a state or national organization which has been in
13existence for at least 3 years, may conduct a raffle upon receiving a license for the
14raffle
event from the department. No other person may conduct a raffle in this state.
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15Section
4. 563.908 of the statutes is created to read:
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16563.908 Types of raffles allowed. A raffle may not be conducted in this state
17unless it is one of the following:
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18(1) A game of chance for which tickets or calendars are sold and a drawing for
19prizes is held.
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1(2) A game of chance for which tickets are sold, that employs flexible plastic
2or rubber ducks that are used in a race, and that meets all of the following
3requirements:
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(a) The ducks are placed in a waterway and the first duck to cross a finish line
5represents the winner of the raffle.
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(b) All of the ducks are made to be unsinkable and unbreakable.
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(c) A number written in waterproof ink is on each duck and the number is the
8same as one that is on a single ticket that was sold for the raffle.
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(d) All of the ducks are of the same size, shape, and weight.
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(e) The waterway is free of obstructions.
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(f) The race begins with all of the ducks being held behind a barrier and the
12barrier then being removed or with all of the ducks being dropped by means of a
13device into the water at the same time.
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(g) All individuals present at the race are prohibited from touching, hindering,
15or moving the ducks while they are in the waterway.
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(h) The winner is determined by the use of a chute or some other entrapment
17device that is located at the finish line and that traps the ducks, one at a time, in the
18order that they cross the finish line.
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19Section
5. 563.91 of the statutes is amended to read:
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20563.91 Limit. No qualified organization under s.
563.90 563.907 may conduct
21more than 200 raffles or more than one calendar raffle during a year.
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22Section
6. 563.92 (1m) of the statutes is amended to read:
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563.92
(1m) The department may issue a Class A license for the conduct of a
24raffle in which some or all of the tickets for that raffle are sold on days other than the
25same day
as that the raffle
drawing occurs and in which equal shares of a single ticket
1may be sold to one or more purchasers. The department may issue a Class B license
2for the conduct of a raffle in which all of the tickets for that raffle are sold on the same
3day
as that the raffle
drawing occurs.
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4Section
7. 563.92 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
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563.92
(2) The fee for a raffle license shall be $25 and shall be remitted with
6the application. A raffle license shall be valid for 12 months and may be renewed as
7provided in s. 563.98 (1g). The department shall issue the license within 30 days
8after the filing of an application if the applicant qualifies under s.
563.90 563.907 and
9has not exceeded the limits of s. 563.91. All moneys received by the department
10under this subsection shall be credited to the appropriation account under s. 20.505
11(8) (j).
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12Section
8. 563.92 (3b) of the statutes is created to read:
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563.92
(3b) An application for a Class A or Class B license submitted by an
14organization that plans to conduct a raffle of the type described in s. 563.908 (2) shall
15include all of the following:
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(a) The name of the organization.
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(b) The address of the premises where each raffle will be conducted.
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(c) Description of the record-keeping and accounting procedures that will be
19used in conducting each raffle.
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(d) The date the membership approved this type of raffle.
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(e) The signature of the president of the organization.
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22Section
9. 563.93 (1) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
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563.93
(1) (e) The date, time and place of the
drawing or drawings raffle.
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24Section
10. 563.93 (1s) of the statutes is amended to read:
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1563.93
(1s) Each raffle ticket and each calendar sold by an organization shall
2include a separate identification number, printed on both the purchaser's and the
3organization's portion of the ticket or calendar, numbered consecutively in relation
4to the other tickets or calendars for the same
drawing
raffle.
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5Section
11. 563.93 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
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563.93
(4) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), tickets for a proposed raffle may
7not be offered for sale more than 270 days before the
date of the raffle
drawing.
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8Section
12. 563.93 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
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563.93
(4) (b) An organization that existed at least 5 years before the
10organization was issued a Class A license may offer tickets for sale for a proposed
11raffle up to one year before the date of the raffle
drawing.
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12Section
13. 563.93 (4m) of the statutes is amended to read:
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563.93
(4m) The organization that conducts a raffle under a Class A license
14shall provide the purchaser of a raffle ticket or calendar the purchaser's portion of
15the ticket or calendar before the raffle
drawing
is held, but need not provide it to the
16purchaser at the time of purchase.
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17Section
14. 563.93 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
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563.93
(5) All
raffle drawings raffles shall be held in public.
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19Section
15. 563.93 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
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563.93
(6) All prizes shall be awarded. The purchaser of a ticket or calendar
21need not be present at the
drawing raffle to win a prize.
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22Section
16. 563.93 (7) of the statutes is amended to read:
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563.93
(7) If a raffle
drawing is canceled, the organization shall refund the
24receipts to the ticket or calendar purchasers.
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25Section
17. 563.93 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:
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1563.93
(8) The organization that holds a raffle
drawing shall furnish a list of
2prize winners to each ticket or calendar holder who provides the organization with
3a self-addressed stamped envelope and requests the list.
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4Section
18. 563.93 (9) of the statutes is amended to read:
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563.93
(9) If a person who holds a Class A license sells equal shares of a single
6ticket to one or more purchasers
for a raffle, the person shall, prior to the
date on
7which the raffle
drawing for which the shares were sold is held, purchase any shares
8of the ticket that have not been sold.
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9Section
19. 563.935 (5) of the statutes is amended to read:
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563.935
(5) All
raffle drawings raffles shall be held in public.
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11Section
20. 563.935 (6) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
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563.935
(6) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), the purchaser of a ticket must be
13present at the
drawing time the raffle is held to win a prize, unless the purchaser
14gives the ticket to another person who may claim the prize on behalf of the purchaser,
15but only if that other person is present at the
drawing raffle. If the purchaser of the
16ticket gives the ticket to another person to claim a prize on behalf of the purchaser,
17the organization conducting the raffle and the department shall not be held
18responsible or liable in any dispute regarding the ownership of the ticket.
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19Section
21. 563.935 (6) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
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563.935
(6) (b) Any organization conducting a raffle may, according to
21procedures determined by the organization, allow the purchaser of a ticket not to be
22present at the
drawing time the raffle is held to win a prize.
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23Section
22. 563.935 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:
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1563.935
(8) The
date, time
, and place of the
drawing and raffle, the prizes to
2be awarded,
and the prize amount or the methodology used to determine the prize
3amount shall be posted or announced before the drawing.
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4Section
23. 563.935 (9) of the statutes is amended to read:
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563.935
(9) If a raffle
drawing is canceled, the organization shall refund the
6receipts to the ticket purchasers.
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7Section
24. 563.935 (10) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
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563.935
(10) (intro.) A raffle
that is not of the type that is described in s. 563.908
9(2) and that is conducted under a Class B license to which all of the following apply
10is one raffle for purposes of s. 563.91:
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11Section
25. 563.98 (1) (f) of the statutes is created to read:
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563.98
(1) (f) For raffles of the type described in s. 563.908 (2), an accounting
13of all sold and unsold tickets for each raffle.
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14Section
26. 945.01 (3) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
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945.01
(3) (b) 1. A device used in conducting a bingo occasion or raffle
event 16under ch. 563, used in conducting a lottery under ch. 565 or used in conducting a race
17under ch. 562.
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18Section
27.
Initial applicability.
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(1) The treatment of section 563.92 (3b) of the statutes first applies to
20applications that are submitted on the effective date of this subsection.