Code of Maine Rules
16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
222 - BUREAU OF STATE POLICE
Chapter 3 - RULES AND REGULATIONS RELATING TO BEANO
Section 222-3-02 - EQUIPMENT

Universal Citation: 16 ME Code Rules ยง 222-3-02

Current through 2024-38, September 18, 2024

A. No game of Beano shall be conducted with any Beano equipment unless said equipment is (a) owned absolutely, or (b) used without payment or any compensation therefore, except that electronic beano card computer systems, electronic beano card daubers, and electronically-stored beano cards may be leased under terms determined to be reasonable by the Department.

1. As part of the determination of the reasonableness of any lease, the Department shall:
a. Prohibit revenue sharing between the customer and any third party,

b. Require a certificate of approval of this beano equipment from a recognized independent testing laboratory and

c. Require the lease contracts be submitted to the Department.

2. The determination of the reasonableness of the lease contracts for this electronic beano equipment by the Department is deemed a "final agency action" pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, 5 M.R.S.A. §8002(4).

3. Fair market value."Fair market value" means the most likely value that the lease of such electronic beano equipment would have in a competitive and open market under all conditions requisite to a fair lease with the lessee and lessor each acting prudently, knowledgeably and in their own best interest and a reasonable time being allowed for exposure in the open market.

NOTE: Equipment being purchased on installment is considered as "Owned".

AA. An "electronic beano card dauber" (herein after referred to as "Electronic Dauber") is an electronic appliance used by a player to identify beano cards that contain numbers or symbols input by a player. This device electronically stores preprinted beano cards purchased by a player, provides a means for a player to input numbers or symbols called by the licensee, compares the numbers or symbols input by the player to beano cards previously stored in an electronic database, and identifies to the player those stored beano cards that contain the numbers or symbols input by the player: provided, that player-owned devices, which are not directly interfaced with or connected to equipment used to conduct beano games or the electronic database in which electronically generated beano cards are stored in any manner, are not "electronic beano card daubers" for purposes of these Rules and Regulations.

AAA. "Equipment" includes the "electronic beano card computer system" which is the computer hardware and software system owned by the beano hall operator or licensee, and used by the licensee, that loads the electronic beano cards purchased by each electronic beano card player into the electronic dauber. This system shall:

(1) Be capable of printing hard copies of all beano cards purchased by electronic beano card players at the time of sale and before release of the electronic dauber to the player; and

(2) Be capable of summarizing and printing at the completion of each beano occasion a record of the following:
(a) The beginning and ending card numbers purchased by each player;

(b) The beginning and ending transaction numbers;

(c) The total number of cards sold;

(d) The total number of sales transactions;

(e) The total dollar amount of sales; and

(f) The number and dollar amounts of all voids and overrings.

B. In addition to proper furniture such as tables and chairs, each game of Beano shall use the following equipment: Beano cards, otherwise known as tally cards; suitable equipment for securing the numbers "called" in conducting the game; beans, corn or other material which may include the dauber function of an electronic dauber, to be used as tallies, and a chalkboard or electric flashboard. For purposes of these Rules and Regulations, "Beano cards" may be electronically-stored.

BB. Each electronically-stored Beano card shall meet the requirements of section 3.02(C) herein and shall display a serial number. The Beano numbers on that electronically-stored card shall be identical to the numbers on the paper card displaying the same serial number.

C. Each Beano or tally card shall have twenty-five squares which are divided into five vertical and five horizontal rows, making five squares to a row. At the top of each vertical row will appear one letter of the word "Beano" beginning at the extreme left row with the letter "B" and continuing in sequence through "O" at the extreme right row. Each square shall be numbered making five numbers to a row, the exception being the center or third vertical row which has four numbers and a center space. (The most commonly used cards are those numbered 1 to 75 inclusive. In this series the numbers 1 to 15, inclusive, are used in the first vertical row; numbers 16 to 30, inclusive, in the second row; 31 to 45, inclusive, in the third row; 46 to 60, inclusive, in the fourth row; and 61 to 75, inclusive, in the fifth row. Each card may have a different combination of numbers either vertically, horizontally or diagonally).

D. One of the following methods shall be used in securing the numbers "called" in the conduct of the game:

a. An electrically operated blower machine containing balls which the operator may take from the air one at a time while the blower is in operation or which provides a trap or other mechanical means for automatically catching no more than one ball at a time while the blower is in operation.

b. A mechanically or manually operated cage which provides a trap or other mechanical means for automatically catching no more than one ball at a time while the cage is in operation.

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