563.55563.55 Local ordinances. Any political subdivision of this state may enact an ordinance that extends the hours during which bingo may be played under s. 563.51 (26).

563.61(1)(1) Each licensed organization shall file with the department, on a form prescribed by the department, a semiannual report of bingo operations for each 6-month period beginning on the date on which the organization’s license is issued. The report is due on the 60th day after the last day of the reporting period. The report shall be accompanied by the payment of the gross receipts tax due. The licensed organization shall retain a copy of the report for its permanent records. The report shall include:

563.61(1)(a)(a) The name and address of each supervising member and the member responsible for the proper utilization of gross receipts.

563.61(1)(d)(d) An itemized statement of the gross receipts from each bingo occasion held during the reporting period, including gross receipts from sales of regular bingo cards, extra regular cards, special game cards and sale of supplies.

563.61(1)(e)(e) An itemized statement of expenditures for each bingo occasion held during the reporting period, including amounts paid for prizes, bingo supplies and equipment, license fees and other expenses.

563.61(1)(em)(em) An itemized statement of expenditures, if any, made during the reporting period by the licensed organization for the advancement, improvement or benefit of the licensed organization.

563.61(1)(f)(f) A statement showing the balance in the licensed organization’s bingo account and all deposits into and adjustments in the bingo account that were made during the reporting period.

563.61(2)(2) The report shall be signed by the member responsible for the proper utilization of gross receipts for the bingo occasion.

563.61(3)(3) If no bingo games are held on a date when a license authorizes them to be held, a report to that effect shall be filed with the department.

563.62(1)(1) The department may refuse to renew a license of an organization found to be delinquent in filing its financial statement or found to have filed an incomplete statement of bingo operations.

563.62(2)(2) If a licensed organization fails to file a financial statement of bingo operations within 5 days after notification by the department of the delinquency, the department may suspend the license, pending the filing of the financial statement.

563.62(3)(3) If the financial statement filed by a licensed organization is not fully, accurately and truthfully completed, the department may refuse to renew a license or may suspend a license until such time as a statement in proper form has been filed.

563.63(1)(1) Each licensed organization shall maintain one account which shall be designated as the “bingo account” and which shall be a regular or interest-bearing checking, share draft or negotiable order of withdrawal account from which canceled checks, share drafts or negotiable orders of withdrawal, or microfilm copies of any of them, may be obtained. All gross receipts derived from the conduct of bingo shall be deposited into the bingo account. No other receipts may be deposited in a bingo account. Deposits shall be made within 5 days following the date of a bingo occasion. All accounts shall be maintained in a financial institution located in this state.

563.63(2)(a)(a) All withdrawals from the bingo account shall be by checks or other drafts having preprinted consecutive numbers, signed by the duly authorized person and made payable to a specific person. Except as permitted in par. (b), no such check or other draft shall be issued payable to “cash” or to “bearer”.

563.63(2)(b)(b) If more than one player is declared to be the winner on the call of the same number in the same bingo game and an equal division of the cash prize is $10 or less for each winner, a check for the game total prize may be issued to “Cash—Game #—” and the winners paid with cash from that check.