5.12.010 Definitions.
Whenever used in this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context, the words set out in this section shall have the following meanings:
A. “Applicant” means an association or organization applying for a permit to conduct bingo games.
B. “Bingo” means a game of chance in which prizes are awarded on the basis of designated numbers or symbols on a card which conform to numbers or symbols selected at random. Bingo includes cards having numbers or symbols which are concealed and preprinted in a manner providing for distribution of prizes.
C. “Eligible organization” means one of the following:
1. Organization exempted from the payment of bank and corporation taxes by Sections 23701a, 23701b, 23701d, 23701e, 23701f, 23701g, 23701k, 23701l, and 23701w of the California Revenue and Taxation Code as those sections are amended from time to time;
2. Mobile home park associations;
3. Senior citizens’ organizations with a membership requiring that the member, or the member’s spouse be fifty years of age or older; or
4. Charitable organizations affiliated with a school district.
D. “Person” means any individual, partnership, corporation or association of any nature whatsoever. (Ord. 4805 § 1, 2015; Ord. 3711 § 1, 1996)