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TITLE 16 - ECONOMIC REGULATION
PART 9 - TEXAS LOTTERY COMMISSION
CHAPTER 402 - CHARITABLE BINGO OPERATIONS DIVISION
SUBCHAPTER C - BINGO GAMES AND EQUIPMENT
SECTION/RULE §402.303 - Pull-Tab Bingo Sales and Redemption.
Chapter Review Date 10/30/2024

Sales and Redemption.(1) Instant pull-tab bingo tickets from a single deal may be sold by a licensed authorized organization over multiple occasions. A licensed authorized organization may bundle pull-tab bingo tickets of different form numbers and may sell those bundled pull-tab tickets. Pull-tab tickets may be sold up to one hour before an occasion, but they may only be redeemed during an occasion.(2) Except as provided by paragraph (3) or (4) of this subsection, the event used to determine the winner(s) of an event pull-tab bingo ticket deal must occur during the same bingo occasion at which the first event pull-tab bingo ticket from that deal was sold. A winning event pull-tab ticket must be presented for payment during the same bingo occasion at which the event occurred.(3) For a licensed authorized organization that conducts bingo through a unit created and operated under Texas Occupations Code, Subchapter I-1, any organization in the unit may sell or redeem event pull-tab tickets from a deal on the premises specified in its bingo license and during such licensed time on consecutive occasions within one 24-hour period.(4) For a licensed authorized organization that conducts bingo on consecutive occasions within one day, the organization or organizations within a unit may sell or redeem event pull-tab tickets from a deal during either occasion and may account for and report all of the pull-tab bingo ticket sales and prizes for the occasions as sales and prizes for the final occasion.(5) Licensed authorized organizations may not display or sell any pull-tab bingo ticket which has in any manner been marked, defaced, tampered with, or which otherwise may deceive the public or affect a person's chances of winning.(6) A licensed authorized organization may not withdraw a deal of instant pull-tab bingo tickets from play until the entire deal is completely sold out or all winning instant pull-tab bingo tickets of $25.00 prize winnings or more have been redeemed, or the bingo occasion ends.(7) A licensed authorized organization may not commingle different serial numbers of the same form number of pull-tab bingo tickets.(8) A winning instant pull-tab bingo ticket must be presented for payment during the licensed authorized organization's bingo occasion(s) at which the instant pull-tab bingo ticket is available for sale.(9) The licensed authorized organization's gross receipts from the sale of pull-tab bingo tickets must be included in the reported total gross receipts for the organization, except that an organization or organizations within a unit that conducts consecutive bingo occasions during one day may account for and report all of the pull-tab bingo ticket sales for the occasions as sales for the final occasion. An organization or unit that chooses to account for pull-tab bingo ticket sales for consecutive bingo occasions during one day as sales for the final occasion must also account for pull-tab bingo ticket prizes awarded over those occasions as prizes awarded for the final occasion. Each deal of pull-tab bingo tickets must be accounted for in sales, prizes or unsold cards.(10) A licensed authorized organization may use video confirmation to display the results of an event ticket pull-tab bingo game(s). Video confirmation will have no effect on the play or results of any ticket or game.(11) A licensed authorized organization must sell the pull-tab ticket for the price printed on the pull-tab ticket.(12) Immediately upon payment of a winning pull-tab ticket of $25.00 or more, the licensed authorized organization must punch a hole with a standard hole punch through or otherwise mark or deface that winning pull-tab bingo ticket.

Source Note: The provisions of this §402.303 adopted to be effective February 27, 2025, 50 TexReg 986.

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