WAC 230-13-080   Operating coin or token activated amusement games.  (1) Coin or token activated amusement games must have nonresetting coin-in meters, certified as accurate to within plus or minus one coin or token in one thousand plays, which stop play of the machine if the meter is removed or disconnected when operating at:

     (a) Amusement parks; or

     (b) Regional shopping malls; or

     (c) Movie theaters; or

     (d) Bowling alleys; or

     (e) Miniature golf course facilities; or

     (f) Skating facilities; or

     (g) Commercially operated family sports complex, offering sports such as indoor and outdoor soccer, lacrosse, baseball, Frisbee, and lawn bowling; or

     (h) Amusement centers; or

     (i) Restaurants; or

     (j) Grocery or department stores. A "department or grocery store" means a business that offers the retail sale of a full line of clothing, accessories, and household goods, or a full line of dry grocery, canned goods, or nonfood items plus some perishable items, or a combination of these. A department or grocery store must have more than ten thousand square feet of retail and support space, not including the parking areas; or

     (k) Any premises that a charitable or nonprofit organization currently licensed to operate punch boards, pull-tabs, or bingo controls or operates.

     (2) All coin or token activated amusement games must have a coin acceptor capable of taking money for one play and may have an additional acceptor to include paper money.

     (3) Operators using amusement games that do not return change must have a change-making bill acceptor or the ability to get change in the immediate vicinity of such games. All amusement games using paper money acceptors must either:

     (a) Return change; or

     (b) Clearly disclose to players before play that change is not returned and disclose to them where at the location they may get change.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 9.46.070. 08-11-036 (Order 625), § 230-13-080, filed 5/14/08, effective 7/1/08; 07-21-116 (Order 617), § 230-13-080, filed 10/22/07, effective 1/1/08; 07-15-064 (Order 612), § 230-13-080, filed 7/16/07, effective 1/1/08.]