2002 SESSION

01-2289

08/09

HOUSE BILL 1222

COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety

ANALYSIS

This bill exempts ice-out contests from the laws regulating games of chance. This bill also defines "ice-out contest."

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

01-2289

08/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Two

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

17:1 New Paragraph; Games of Chance; Ice-Out Contests; Definition. Amend RSA 287-D:1 by inserting after paragraph III the following new paragraph:

IV. "Ice-out contest" means a contest conducted by a charitable organization whereby a marker is placed on a frozen lake and the person most closely estimating the day and time the marker falls through the ice wins 1/2 the contest proceeds collected by the charitable organization.

17:2 Games of Chance; Definition of Games of Chance Amended. Amend RSA 287-D:1, II to read as follows:

II. "Games of chance" means any game involving gambling as defined by RSA 647:2, II, or any lottery prohibited by RSA 647:1, but shall not include any game involving the use of a slot machine or any other device in the nature of a slot machine, [or] 50/50 raffles as defined in RSA 287-A:1, III, or ice-out contests as defined in RSA 287-D:1, IV.

17:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

(Approved: April 1, 2002)

(Effective Date: May 31, 2002)