(1) In addition to any other duties set forth in this part 6, the board shall:
(a) Conduct a continuous study of charitable gaming throughout the state for the purpose of ascertaining any defects in this part 6 or in the rules promulgated pursuant to this part 6; and (b) Formulate and recommend changes to this part 6 to the general assembly.
(2) The board shall offer advice to the licensing authority upon subjects that include, but are not limited to, the following:
The types of charitable gaming activities to be conducted, the rules for those activities, and the number of occasions per year upon which a licensee may hold, operate, or conduct a game of bingo or lotto;
The requirements, qualifications, and grounds for the issuance of all types of permanent and temporary licenses required for the conduct of charitable gaming;
The requirements, qualifications, and grounds for the revocation, suspension, andsummary suspension of all licenses required for the conduct of charitable gaming;
Activities that constitute fraud, cheating, or illegal activities;
The granting of licenses with special conditions or for limited periods, or both;
The establishment of a schedule of reasonable fines to be assessed in lieu of licenserevocation or suspension for violations of this part 6 or any rule adopted pursuant to this part 6;
The amount of fees for licenses issued by the licensing authority and for the performance of administrative services pursuant to this part 6;
The establishment of criteria under which a person may serve as a games manager;
The content and conduct of classes or training seminars to benefit bingo-raffle charitable licensees, officers, and volunteers to better account for funds collected from games of chance;
Standardized rules, procedures, and policies to clarify and simplify the auditing oflicensees' records;
The types of charitable gaming activities to be conducted in the future, based upon acontinuing review of the available state of the art of equipment in Colorado and elsewhere, and the policies and procedures approved and implemented by other states for the conduct of their charitable gaming activities; and
The conditions for a licensee's plan for disposal of any equipment and the distributionof any remaining net proceeds upon termination of a bingo-raffle license for the licensee's failure to timely or sufficiently renew such license.
Source: L. 2017: Entire part added with relocations, (SB 17-232), ch. 233, p. 943, § 2, effective May 23.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-9-202 as it existed prior to 2017.