Bingo Workers

PURPOSE: This rule provides a definition of “bingo worker.” (1) A bingo worker is any person participating in the operation of the game of bingo. This includes the bingo chairperson or member in charge, callers and any person that helps to verify or pay bingo winners. It includes any person that sells bingo paper or pull-tabs, as well as any person involved in the management, conduct, or operation of the actual games, including those who help prepare bingo paper, count winning pull-tabs, or otherwise handle the bingo supplies, bingo equipment, or receipts. (2) For the purposes of this rule, the term “bingo worker” shall not include any person whose sole duty or responsibility is to prepare or sell concessions, provide janitorial or security services, sell raffle or sweepstakes tickets for a lawfully conducted raffle or sweepstakes, or sell markers, cushions, bags, and other incidentals, as well as any authorized representative of a licensed supplier whose sole duty or responsibility is to maintain Electronic Bingo Card Monitoring Devices (EBCMDs). (3) No person shall be allowed to work bingo until that individual has been placed on the approved worker list for that organization by the commission. The organization shall not submit any person to be added to the approved worker list who has not been a bona fide member of the organization for at least six (6) months. AUTHORITY: section 313.065, RSMo 2016.* Original rule filed Dec. 1, 2004, effective July 30, 2005. Amended: Filed Aug. 29, 2024, effective March 30, 2025. *Original authority: 313.065, RSMo 1981, amended 1993, 1995.