A location permit must accompany the license to be valid.Ĥ. “License” shall mean that written authority from the Chief of the State Police to hold, conduct or operate the amusement commonly known as “Beano” for the entertainment of the public within the State of Maine. “Equipment ” shall mean the receptacle and numbered objects to be drawn from it the master board upon which such objects are placed as drawn the tally cards or sheets bearing such numbers to be covered and the objects used to cover them the boards or signs, however operated, used to display the numbers as they are drawn public address systems and any other articles essential to the operation, conduct and playing of “Beano.”ģ.

“Chief of the State Police” or “chief” means the Chief of the State Police or the chief’s designee.Ģ. “Commercial beano hall permit” means written authority from the Chief of the State Police issued to a permittee who rents or leases premises for profit to a licensee to hold, conduct or operate “beano.”ġ-B. Until July 1, 1994, a game described in this subsection is “beano” and a licensee may conduct such a game regardless of whether the manner of determining the winner is specifically described as a permissible manner of determining the winner in rules adopted by the Chief of State Police.ġ-A. The manner in which the winner is determined must be clearly announced or displayed before any game is begun. The participant covers or marks the numbers or letters as objects similarly numbered or lettered are drawn from a receptacle and the winner or winners are determined by the sequence in which those objects are drawn. In “beano,” each participant is given or sold one or more tally cards, so-called, each of which contains preprinted numbers or letters and may or may not be arranged in vertical or horizontal rows. Wherever the term “beano” is used, the word “bingo” or any other word used to characterize such a game may be interchanged.

“Beano” means a specific kind of group game of chance, regardless of whether such a game is characterized by another name.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following words shall have the following meanings.ġ.

Maine high stakes bingo