Section 435.110  Definitions

As used in this Part, the terms listed below are defined as follows:

            "Act":  The Charitable Games Act [230 ILCS 30].

            "Charitable games":  The fourteen games of chance involving cards, dice, wheels, random selection of numbers, and gambling tickets enumerated in Section 435.160 which may be conducted at charitable games events.

            "Charitable games equipment":  Any supplies, devices, equipment, products or materials designed for use or used in the playing of charitable games, including, but not limited to, cards, dice, pull tabs and any related type of gambling ticket, chips, representations of money, and wheels.

            "Charitable games event" or "event":  The type of fundraising event authorized by the Act at which participants pay to play charitable games for the chance of winning cash or noncash prizes, and which may be conducted only on the date stated on a license issued by the Department, and only between the hours of noon and 2:00 a.m.. A charitable games event is considered to be a one-day event; each licensee may be licensed to conduct as many as four one-day events in a license year.

            "Charitable games provider":  An individual or entity holding a license to provide premises for a charitable game.

            "Charitable games supplier":  An individual or entity holding a license to supply licensed organization with charitable games equipment.

            "Chips":  Scrip, play money, poker or casino chips, or any other representations of money, used to make wagers on the outcome of any charitable game.

            "Complete application":  An application that contains all information necessary for the Department to determine the applicant's eligibility under the Act and this Part.

            "Consultant company": means any person, as defined in this Section, that is hired by a licensed organization to perform services at the event, including, but not limited to, security for persons or property at the event (other than for the charitable games equipment and money, chips or scrip used in the conducting of charitable games), or services before the event, including, but not limited to, training for volunteers or advertising.  "Consultant companies" include, for instance, "party planners" who plan an event for a licensee by locating and securing qualified suppliers and providers on behalf of the licensee, or who assist a licensee in planning a hosted casino night which is not open to the public (e.g., an event open to only a corporation and its clients which is hosted by the licensee and in return for which a donation is made to the licensee).

            "Currency":  Coin, checks, marketable securities, or any other similar item that can be readily redeemed or converted into legal tender.

            "Department":  The Illinois Department of Revenue, Office of Bingo and Charitable Games, P.O. Box 19480, Springfield, Illinois 62794.

            "License Year":  The year beginning on the date a license is issued under the Act, which date is stated on the license.

            "Licensee":  An organization holding a license to conduct charitable games events or a person licensed under the Act as a supplier or provider.

            "Organization":  a corporation, agency, partnership, institution, association, firm or other entity consisting of two or more persons joined by a common interest or purpose (Section 2 of the Act).

            "Person": means any natural individual, a corporation, a partnership, a limited liability company, an organization as defined in this Section, a qualified organization, a sponsoring organization, any other licensee under the Act, or a volunteer.

            "Qualified organization": means a charitable, religious, fraternal, veterans, labor or educational organization or institution organized and conducted on a not-for-profit basis with no personal profit inuring to anyone as a result of the operation and that is exempt from federal income taxation under Section 501 (c)(3), (c)(4), (c)(5), (c)(8), (c)(10) or (c)(19) of the Internal Revenue Code; a veterans organization as defined in Section 1 of the Bingo License and Tax Act [230 ILCS 25], organized and conducted on a not-for-profit basis with no personal profit inuring to anyone as a result of the operation; an auxiliary organization of a veterans organization; or a local fraternal mutual benefit organization chartered at least 40 years before it applies for a license.

            "Received by the Department" or similar phrases:  Whenever this Part requires that any writing or any payment must be received within a specified number of days or by a specified date, the provisions of Section 1.25 of the Statute on Statutes [5 ILCS 70] shall apply.

            "Sponsoring organization": means a qualified organization that has obtained a license to conduct a charitable games event in conformance with the provisions of the Act.

            "Volunteer": means a person recruited by the sponsoring organization who voluntarily performs services at a charitable games event, including participation in the management or operation of a game under Section 435.170(b).

(Source:  Amended at 21 Ill. Reg. 3978, effective March 14, 1997)