- (a) Maximum individual prize limit. The maximum cash value of a prize that may be awarded for a single chance in a game of chance is $500.
- (b) Weekly limit. No more than $5,000 in cash or merchandise may be awarded as prizes in games of chance conducted by a licensed eligible organization during an operating week.
- (c) Raffle limit. No more than $5,000 in cash or merchandise may be awarded as prizes in raffles in a calendar month except under a special raffle permit.
- (d) Special raffle permit. A licensed eligible organization may conduct a raffle and award a prize valued in excess of $500 only if it has obtained a special raffle permit. The total cash value of prizes awarded under all special raffle permits during a calendar year may be no more than $100,000.
(e) Prize limit exceptions for daily drawings.
(1) A licensed eligible organization may award a prize in excess of the prize limitations in subsections (a) and (b) if the prize is the result of a carryover of a drawing when the following conditions apply:
- (i) The winning number was not held by one of the eligible entrants in the drawing.
- (ii) The carryover is not the result of the licensed eligible organization’s failure to hold a drawing on an operating day during which chances for a daily drawing were sold.
- (iii) The chances for the daily drawing were not sold for an amount in excess of $1.
- (iv) An eligible participant may not be sold more than one chance.
- (2) A prize awarded in a daily drawing that is set up to pay out 100% of the gross revenues from the drawing is not included as a prize for purposes of the limitation in subsection (b).
(f) Prize limit exceptions for weekly drawings.
- (1) The prize limitation in subsection (a) does not apply to weekly drawings. Weekly drawings are subject to the prize limitations in subsection (b).
(2) A prize awarded in a weekly drawing will not be considered a prize for purposes of the limitation in subsection (b) if either:
(i) The prize is the result of a carryover of a drawing when the winning number was not held by one of the eligible entrants in the drawing, and the following conditions apply:
- (A) The carryover is not the result of the licensed eligible organization’s failure to hold a weekly drawing at the end of the operating week during which chances were sold.
- (B) The chances for the weekly drawing were not sold for an amount in excess of $1.
- (ii) The drawing is set up to pay out 100% of the gross revenues from such drawing.
Source
The provisions of this § 901.702 amended August 11, 2006, effective August 12, 2006, 36 Pa.B. 4475. Immediately preceding text appears at serial page (265911).