Hall Provider License

PURPOSE: This rule specifies who shall obtain a Hall Provider License and the rental rate charged by a lessor to a bingo licensee. (1) A person who or business entity which owns or has a lease for at least five (5) years of a premises and intends to lease said premises to conduct bingo games shall obtain a Hall Provider License. (2) Licensed hall providers may only lease the location(s) for the conduct of bingo to organizations which have obtained a Regular/Annual Bingo License, Special Bingo and Pull-Tab License, or Special Abbreviated Pull-Tab License from the commission. (3) Bingo licensees may not sublease the premises to any other bingo licensee for the purpose of conducting bingo without first obtaining a Hall Provider License. (4) Pursuant to section 313.025(1), RSMo the reasonable market rental rate for leased premises on which bingo will be conducted shall be determined by the commission. The commission may request the applicant for licensure or licensed organization to submit documentation to support the proposed rental rate. The type of documentation shall be at the discretion of the commission. (5) Hall providers shall charge each licensee their equal prorated amount of the rent which shall not exceed the prorated amount each licensee is charged for the same time under the terms of the lease. Example: If a hall provider’s total weekly rental charge to four (4) bingo licensees is twelve hundred dollars ($1,200), the hall provider must charge each organization twenty-five percent (25%) of the weekly rental charge or in this example three hundred dollars ($300). (6) Each licensee is responsible for paying the rent directly to the licensed hall provider from a check drawn from the licensee’s bingo checking account. AUTHORITY: sections 313.025 and 313.065, RSMo 2000.* Emergency rule filed June 21, 1994, effective July 1, 1994, expired Oct. 28, 1994. Emergency rule filed Oct. 19, 1994, effective Oct. 29, 1994, expired Feb. 25, 1995. Original rule filed July 11, 1994, effective Jan. 29, 1995. Amended: Filed Dec. 1, 2004, effective June 30, 2005. Amended: Filed June 25, 2015, effective Feb. 29, 2016. *Original authority: 313.025, RSMo 1981, amended 1984, 1993 and 313.065, RSMo 1981, amended 1993, 1995.