RCW 9.46.0341
Golfing sweepstakes authorized.
The legislature hereby authorizes bona fide charitable or nonprofit organizations to conduct, without the necessity of obtaining a permit or license to do so from the commission, golfing sweepstakes permitting wagers of money, and the same shall not constitute such gambling or lottery as otherwise prohibited in this chapter, or be subject to civil or criminal penalties thereunder, but this only when the outcome of such golfing sweepstakes is dependent upon the score, or scores, or the playing ability, or abilities, of a golfing contest between individual players or teams of such players, conducted in the following manner:
(1) Wagers are placed by buying tickets on any players in a golfing contest to "win," "place," or "show" and those holding tickets on the three winners may receive a payoff similar to the system of betting identified as parimutuel, such moneys placed as wagers to be used primarily as winners' proceeds, except moneys used to defray the expenses of such golfing sweepstakes or otherwise used to carry out the purposes of such organization; or
(2) Participants in any golfing contest(s) pay a like sum of money into a common fund on the basis of attaining a stated number of points ascertainable from the score of such participants, and those participants attaining such stated number of points share equally in the moneys in the common fund, without any percentage of such moneys going to the sponsoring organization; or
(3) An auction is held in which persons may bid on the players or teams of players in the golfing contest, and the person placing the highest bid on the player or team that wins the golfing contest receives the proceeds of the auction, except moneys used to defray the expenses of the golfing sweepstakes or otherwise used to carry out the purposes of the organizations; and
(4) Participation is limited to members of the sponsoring organization and their bona fide guests.
[ 1997 c 38 § 1; 1987 c 4 § 32. Formerly RCW 9.46.030(7).]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 9 - Crimes and Punishments
Chapter 9.46 - Gambling—1973 Act.
9.46.010 - Legislative declaration.
9.46.0209 - "Bona fide charitable or nonprofit organization."
9.46.0217 - "Commercial stimulant."
9.46.0225 - "Contest of chance."
9.46.0233 - "Fund-raising event."
9.46.0241 - "Gambling device."
9.46.0245 - "Gambling information."
9.46.0249 - "Gambling premises."
9.46.0253 - "Gambling record."
9.46.0261 - "Member," "bona fide member."
9.46.0269 - "Professional gambling."
9.46.0273 - "Punchboards," "pull-tabs."
9.46.0282 - "Social card game."
9.46.0289 - "Whoever," "person."
9.46.0305 - Dice or coin contests for music, food, or beverage payment.
9.46.0311 - Charitable, nonprofit organizations—Authorized gambling activities.
9.46.0315 - Raffles—No license required, when.
9.46.0321 - Bingo, raffles, amusement games—No license required, when.
9.46.0323 - Enhanced raffles—Authority of commission—Report, recommendations.
9.46.0325 - Social card games, punchboards, pull-tabs authorized.
9.46.0331 - Amusement games authorized—Minimum rules.
9.46.0335 - Sports pools authorized.
9.46.0341 - Golfing sweepstakes authorized.
9.46.0345 - Bowling sweepstakes authorized.
9.46.0351 - Social card, dice games—Use of premises of charitable, nonprofit organizations.
9.46.0356 - Promotional contests of chance authorized.
9.46.0361 - Turkey shoots authorized.
9.46.0364 - Sports wagering authorized.
9.46.0368 - Sports wagering over the internet authorized.
9.46.037 - Sports wagering—Prohibited activities—Penalty.
9.46.038 - Sports wagering—Defined.
9.46.039 - Greyhound racing prohibited.
9.46.040 - Gambling commission—Members—Appointment—Vacancies, filling.
9.46.050 - Gambling commission—Chair—Quorum—Meetings—Compensation and travel expenses—Bond—Removal.
9.46.060 - Gambling commission—Counsel—Audits—Payment for.
9.46.070 - Gambling commission—Powers and duties.
9.46.0701 - Charitable or nonprofit organizations—Sharing facilities.
9.46.072 - Pathological gambling behavior—Warning.
9.46.077 - Gambling commission—Vacation of certain suspensions upon payment of monetary penalty.
9.46.080 - Gambling commission—Administrator—Staff—Rules and regulations—Service contracts.
9.46.085 - Gambling commission—Members and employees—Activities prohibited.
9.46.090 - Gambling commission—Reports.
9.46.095 - Gambling commission—Proceedings against, jurisdiction—Immunity from liability.
9.46.100 - Gambling revolving fund—Created—Receipts—Disbursements—Use.
9.46.113 - Taxation of gambling activities—Disbursement.
9.46.116 - Fees on pull-tab and punchboard sales.
9.46.120 - Restrictions on management or operation personnel—Restriction on leased premises.
9.46.150 - Injunctions—Voiding of licenses, permits, or certificates.
9.46.155 - Applicants and licensees—Bribes to public officials, employees, agents—Penalty.
9.46.158 - Applicants, licensees, operators—Commission approval for hiring certain persons.
9.46.160 - Conducting activity without license.
9.46.170 - False or misleading entries or statements, refusal to produce records.
9.46.180 - Causing person to violate chapter.
9.46.185 - Causing person to violate rule or regulation.
9.46.192 - Cities and towns—Ordinance enacting certain sections of chapter—Limitations—Penalties.
9.46.193 - Cities and towns—Ordinance adopting certain sections of chapter—Jurisdiction of courts.
9.46.195 - Obstruction of public servant—Penalty.
9.46.1961 - Cheating in the first degree.
9.46.1962 - Cheating in the second degree.
9.46.198 - Working in gambling activity without license as violation—Penalty.
9.46.210 - Enforcement—Commission as a law enforcement agency.
9.46.215 - Ownership or interest in gambling device—Penalty—Exceptions.
9.46.217 - Gambling records—Penalty—Exceptions.
9.46.220 - Professional gambling in the first degree.
9.46.221 - Professional gambling in the second degree.
9.46.222 - Professional gambling in the third degree.
9.46.225 - Professional gambling—Penalties not applicable to authorized activities.
9.46.231 - Gambling devices, real and personal property—Seizure and forfeiture.
9.46.235 - Slot machines, antique—Defenses concerning—Presumption created.
9.46.240 - Gambling information, transmitting or receiving.
9.46.260 - Proof of possession as evidence of knowledge of its character.
9.46.270 - Taxing authority, exclusive.
9.46.285 - Licensing and regulation authority, exclusive.
9.46.291 - State lottery exemption.
9.46.293 - Fishing derbies exempted.
9.46.295 - Licenses, scope of authority—Exception.
9.46.300 - Licenses and reports—Public inspection—Exceptions and requirements—Charges.
9.46.310 - Licenses for manufacture, sale, distribution, or supply of gambling devices.
9.46.360 - Indian tribes—Compact negotiation process.
9.46.36001 - Tribal actions—Federal jurisdiction.
9.46.420 - RCW 9.46.410 to be negotiated with Indian tribes.