6-8.14 Card-Minder Devices.
a. Remote caller bingo players may use hand-held, portable card-minder devices to assist in monitoring the numbers or symbols announced by a live caller as those numbers or symbols are called in a live game. Card-minder devices shall not be used in any game where a bingo card is sold or distributed after the start of that bingo game.
b. All card-minder devices shall do all of the following:
1. Be capable of storing in the memory of the device remote caller bingo faces from tangible cards purchased by a player;
2. Provide a means for remote caller bingo players to manually input each individual number or symbol announced by a live caller;
3. Compare the numbers or symbols entered by the player to the remote caller bingo faces previously stored in memory for the device; and
4. Identify winning remote caller bingo patterns that exist on the stored bingo faces.
c. A card-minder device shall neither perform a function involving the play of the game other than those described in paragraph b. of this subsection, nor do any of the following:
1. Be capable of accepting or dispensing any coins, currency or other representative of value or on which value has been encoded;
2. Be capable of monitoring any remote caller bingo card face other than the faces of the tangible card or cards purchased by the player using the device for that game;
3. Display or represent the game result through any means including, but not limited to, video or mechanical reels or other slot machine or casino game themes, other than highlighting the winning numbers or symbols marked or covered on the tangible remote caller bingo cards or giving an audio alert that the player’s card has a prize winning pattern; or
4. Determine the outcome of any game or be physically or electronically connected to any other remote caller bingo equipment, including, but not limited to, the ball call station, or to any other card-minding device. No other player-operated or player-activated electronic or electromechanical device or equipment is permitted to be used in connection with a remote caller bingo game.
d. Notwithstanding paragraphs b. and c. of this subsection, only those card-minder devices that comply with applicable State law and regulations and have been approved in advance by the Commission may be used in any remote caller bingo game.
e. A person or entity that supplies or services any card-minding devices shall meet all licensing requirements established by the Commission. (Ord. #2011-152)