Permit lessor employees to participate in pull-tab games when off duty

A bill for an act

relating to lawful gambling; permitting lessor employees to participate in pull-tab

games when off duty; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 349.181,

subdivision 3.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 349.181, subdivision 3, is amended to read:

Subd. 3.

Organization and lessor employees and volunteers.

(a) For purposes of this

section, "volunteer" means a person who is not compensated by an organization but who

performs activities in the conduct of lawful gambling for that organization.

(b) For purposes of this section, "conduct of pull-tabs, tipboards, and paddlewheels"

includes selling tickets, redeeming tickets, auditing games, making deposits, spinning the

paddlewheel, and conducting inventory.

(c) For purposes of this section, "conduct of bingo" includes selling bingo hard cards,

bingo paper sheets, or facsimiles of bingo paper sheets; completing bingo occasion records;

selecting or announcing bingo numbers; making deposits; and conducting inventory.

(d) A volunteer involved in the conduct of tipboards that have no more than 32 chances

per game or paddlewheel games conducted without a paddlewheel table may not participate

as a player in electronic linked bingo, pull-tab, tipboard, or paddlewheel games at the same

premises on the same business day that the volunteer was involved in the conduct of the

games.

(e) An employee or a volunteer who is involved in the conduct of any lawful gambling

during a bingo occasion may not participate directly or indirectly as a player in any lawful

gambling during that bingo occasion.

(f) An organization or a lessor employee or volunteer who is involved in the conduct of

electronic linked bingo, pull-tab games, tipboard games with more than 32 chances per

game, or paddlewheel games conducted with a paddlewheel table at a permitted premises

may not participate directly or indirectly as a player in electronic linked bingo, pull-tab,

tipboard, or paddlewheel games at that premises. This restriction is in effect until two weeks

after the employee or volunteer is no longer involved in the conduct of electronic linked

bingo, pull-tab games, tipboard games with more than 32 chances per game, or paddlewheel

games conducted with a paddlewheel table at that premises.

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(g) Notwithstanding paragraph (f), a lessor employee may participate as a player in

pull-tab games at that premises provided the employee does not participate during working

hours and the employee is off duty.

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