Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 563 - Bingo and raffle control.
563.93 - The conduct of raffles under a Class A license.

563.93 The conduct of raffles under a Class A license. All of the following shall apply to the conduct of a raffle under a Class A license:
(1e) No person may sell a ticket or calendar unless authorized by an organization with a Class A license.
(1m) All tickets and all calendars shall be identical in form and include:
(a) The number of the license issued by the department.
(b) The name and address of the sponsoring organization.
(c) The price of the ticket or calendar and the discounted price, if any, applicable to multiple ticket or calendar purchases.
(d) A place for the purchaser to enter his or her name and address.
(e) The date, time and place of each drawing.
(f) A list of each prize to be awarded that has a fair market value of $1,000 or more.
(2g) An organization that conducts a raffle under a Class A raffle license shall do all of the following:
(a) Prominently display, at each place where tickets may be purchased, a notice describing any state or federal law that imposes an age restriction on who may possess a prize that will be awarded in the raffle.
(b) Make a good faith effort to award all of the prizes offered for a raffle. If the organization is unable to award a prize, it may hold the prize and use it for future fund-raising purposes.
(c) Provide the purchaser of a ticket or calendar with the purchaser's portion of the ticket or calendar at the time of purchase or at any time before each drawing is held.
(d) Hold all drawings in public.
(e) Print an identification number on both the purchaser's and the organization's portion of the ticket or calendar. The tickets or calendars shall be numbered consecutively in relation to the other tickets or calendars for the same drawing.
(f) Refund the drawing receipts to the ticket or calendar purchasers if a drawing is canceled. The organization may not deduct from the refund a handling charge or other amount relating to the expense incurred in the sale of a ticket or calendar. The organization may not reclaim any prize awarded in a drawing that has already been held at the time a calendar raffle is canceled.
(g) In raffles that involve drawings, as defined in s. 563.03 (5r) (a), place the organization's portion of the ticket or calendar in the drawing container prior to the time of the drawing.
(h) Retain the organization's portion of each ticket or calendar sold for one year after the date on which the drawing is held and provide any of these portions to the department upon request.
(2r) An organization that conducts a calendar raffle shall do all of the following:
(a) Print identical drawing dates and identical prize amounts for each drawing on every calendar sold.
(b) After holding a drawing, replace the winning tickets into the container to allow the purchasers the chance to win again in subsequent drawings.
(3e) An organization that conducts a raffle under a Class A raffle license may not do any of the following:
(a) Permit another organization or individual to use its license to conduct a raffle.
(b) Resell a ticket or calendar.
(c) Offer tickets for a proposed raffle for sale more than one year before the date of the drawing.
(d) Require the purchaser of a ticket or calendar to be present at the drawing to win a prize.
(3i) An organization conducting a raffle under a Class A license may not sell equal shares of a ticket unless all of the following apply:
(a) The organization does not sell more than 4 equal shares of one ticket.
(b) The organization does not offer a price discount to the purchaser of more than one share of a ticket.
(c) Each share of a ticket is identical in form to other shares and includes the organization's portion and the purchaser's portion.
(d) Each purchaser's portion of a share of a ticket includes all of the information required under subs. (1m) (a), (b), (c), (e), and (f) and (2g) (e).
(e) Each organization's portion of a share of a ticket includes the ticket identification number, an identification letter for each share of the ticket, and a place for the purchaser to enter the purchaser's name and address next to the share identification letter.
(f) Each prize is in the form of cash or a number of items that is equally divisible by the maximum allowable number of shares of a ticket.
(g) The organization directly delivers to each holder of a share of a winning ticket his or her share of the prize.
(h) The organization purchases, prior to the date on which a drawing is held, any unsold shares of tickets of which one or more shares have been sold.
(3m) An organization that conducts a calendar raffle may not do any of the following:
(a) Sell any calendars after holding the first drawing.
(b) Change the dates of any drawings or the amounts of any prizes designated on the calendar after the first calendar is sold.
History: 1977 c. 426; 1983 a. 222; 1987 a. 399; 1989 a. 147; 1991 a. 269 s. 782nd; Stats. 1991 s. 563.93; 1993 a. 152; 1995 a. 27 ss. 6976m to 6976t, 9123 (6pp); 1997 a. 27; 2001 a. 16, 109; 2007 a. 206; 2009 a. 315; 2013 a. 273, 319; 2015 a. 6.

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