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517.06 GENERAL OFFENSES CODE SOB sessions, the lessor of the premises shall provide only the premises to the organization and shall not provide the organization with bingo game operators, security personnel, concessions or concession operators, bingo supplies, or any other type of service or equipment. _ A charitable organization shall not lease or sublease premises that it owns or leases to more than one other charitable organization per calendar week for the purpose of conducting bingo sessions on the premises. A person that is not a charitable organization shall not lease premises that it owns, leases, or otherwise is empowered to lease to more than one charitable organization per calendar week for conducting bingo sessions on the premises. In no case shall more than two bingo sessions be conducted on any premises in any calendar week. (2) Display its license conspicuously at the premises where the bingo session is conducted; (3) Conduct the bingo session in accordance with the definition ~of bingo set forth in Section 517.01(s)(1). (c) No charitable organization that conducts a bingo game described in Section 517.01(s)(1) shall do any of the following: (1) Pay any compensation to a bingo game operator for operating a bingo session that is conducted by the charitable organization or for preparing, selling, or serving food or beverages at the site of the bingo session, permit any auxiliary unit or society of the charitable organization to pay compensation to any bingo game operator who prepares, sells, or serves food or beverages at a bingo session conducted by the charitable organization, or permit any auxiliary unit or society of the charitable organization to prepare, sell, or serve food or beverages at a bingo session conducted by the charitable organization, if the auxiliary unit or society pays any compensation to the bingo game operators who prepare, sell, of serve the food or beverages; (2) Pay consulting fees to any person for any services performed in relation to the bingo session; (3) Pay concession fees to any person who provides refreshments to the participants in the bingo session; (4) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c)(4) of this section, conduct more than two bingo sessions in any seven-day period. A volunteer firefighter's organization or a volunteer rescue service organization that conducts not more than five bingo sessions in a calendar year may conduct more than two bingo sessions in a seven-day period after notifying the Attorney General when it will conduct the sessions; (5) Pay out more than three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500) in prizes for bingo games described in Section 517.01(s)(1) during any bingo session that is conducted by the charitable organization. "Prizes" does not include awards from the conduct of instant bingo; 2003 Replacement