§ 10-112. Definitions.

In this article the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meaning given herein, unless the context otherwise requires:

Actual business expenses are those authorized expenses that have a direct bearing on and are necessary to the conduct of a bingo game and related activities, the allocation of which shall be in accordance with generally acceptable accounting practices. Authorized expenses shall mean:

(1)

For bingo conducted on premises owned or leased by a charitable organization, authorized organization or associational group or organization, the reasonable cost of equipment and supplies, accounting services for records and reports, state and local license fees, advertising, cost of security, personnel, pro rata costs for insurance and activities such as electricity, water, gas, sewerage, garbage collection or trash collection resulting from conducting a bingo game, cost of refreshments provided at no cost to players and volunteers, cost of prizes, cost of creating and maintaining a petty cash fund no larger than $25.00.

(2)

For bingo conducted on premises owned by a person other than a charitable organization, authorized organization or associational group or organization, the reasonable market cost of equipment and supplies, state and local license fees, accounting services for records and reports, advertising, cost of security personnel, pro rata share of insurance, and utilities such as water, sewer, gas, garbage and trash collection, and electricity incurred in conducting bingo, cost of prizes, cost of refreshments provided at no cost to players and volunteers, cost of creating and maintaining a petty cash amount containing $25.00 and a rental charge so long as the rental charge does not exceed the range of fair market rent charged for retail commercial premises in the county.

Associational group or organization shall mean a condominium association, a mobile home owners association or a group of residents of a mobile home park as defined in F.S. ch. 723.

Authorized organization means an organization as described in F.S. § 849.0931(2)(a) other than a charitable organization that is entitled under the provisions of F.S. § 849.0931(3) to conduct bingo.

Bingo or bingo game means a game in which:

(1)

Each participant must pay a charge and receives one or more bingo cards;

(2)

The players cover squares as the representative announces a number, letter or a combination of numbers and letters selected by chance from a receptacle containing objects bearing numbers, letters or combinations of numbers and letters corresponding to the system used for designating the squares on the bingo cards; and

(3)

A prize is awarded to the winner, who is the player or players first properly covering a predetermined and announced pattern of squares on the bingo card.

Bingo card means a flat, usually rectangular, piece of paper or thin pasteboard marked off into a set of 25 squares arranged in five vertical rows of five squares each, each square being designated by a number, a letter or a combination of numbers and letters, and shall include a piece of paper or cardboard marked in braille. More than one set of numbers may be printed on a single sheet of paper.

Bingo equipment includes bingo cards, chips or markers for use in covering the spaces on a bingo card, the balls, cubes or tiles having the letters, numbers or combinations thereof by which the squares on bingo cards are denominated and used by the charitable organization, authorized organization or associational group or organization in conducting a bingo game, a birdcage or similar device, whether hand-operated or mechanically powered, for randomizing and ejecting the balls, cubes or tiles first described, a master bingo layout for the display of balls, cubes or tiles ejected and called by charitable organization's, authorized organization's or associational group or organization's representative or any other device, implement, apparatus or paraphernalia ordinarily or commonly used or designed to be used in the conduct of bingo, but does not include tables, chairs and similar items not specifically designed for use in the conduct of bingo.

Charitable organizations means any person which has qualified for exemption from federal income tax as an exempt organization under the provisions of Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 or Section 528 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and who is or holds himself out to be established for any benevolent, educational, philanthropic, humane, scientific, artistic, patriotic, social welfare or advocacy, public health, environmental conservation, civic or other eleemosynary purpose and which has been in existence and active for a period of three years or more. It includes a chapter, branch, area, office or similar officiate performing functions of the organization within the state for a charitable organization which has its principal place of business outside the state.

Chairperson means the person designated by a licensed organization to be responsible for the conduct of bingo games.

Conviction or convicted includes an adjudication of guilt on a plea of guilty or nolo contendere, or the forfeiture of a bond, when a person has been charged with a misdemeanor or felony involving theft or illegal gambling.

County shall include the board, department or division of the county government designated by resolution of the board of county commissioners to administer or enforce this article, which may include the county sheriff.

Entire or net proceeds means all moneys collected for bingo cards, admissions and related sales, less only actual business expenses.

Lease includes a lease, sublease, assignment, rental or agreement to use any premises for the conduct of bingo, other than premises owned by the licensed organization and used by it to conduct bingo for its own benefit.

Lessor means a person who or organization which leases, subleases, assigns or rents any premises to be used for the conduct of bingo, or agrees to the use of the premises for the conduct of bingo.

Licensed organization means a charitable, authorized organization or associational organization that has been issued a license under this article.

Owner means the charitable organization, authorized organization or associational organization which holds legal title to the premises on which a bingo game or a series of bingo games is played.

Person means an individual, partnership, corporation, subchapter S corporation, limited partnership, organization, trusts, foundation, group, association, society or any combination of them. The term "person" shall also include charitable organizations, associational group or organization, and authorized organization as defined in this article.

Player means a person who has paid some amount of money to the representative of one or more bingo cards and who has some expectation of receiving a prize if one or more of his bingo cards contains a sufficient number of numbers, letters or combinations of letters and numbers which are the same as those announced by the representative during a bingo game.

Premises means an indoor or outdoor area used for the conduct of bingo.

Principal officers means the president, vice president, or treasurer, or partner, or limited partner or organization officers performing similar duties.

Prize means cash or anything of value awarded to a player of a bingo game or players in a series of bingo games.

(Ord. No. 95-25, § 2, 5-25-95)