00                            SENATE BILL NO. 146                                                                         
01 "An Act establishing a snow classic as an authorized form of charitable gaming."                                        
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 05.15.100(a) is amended to read:                                                                   
04            (a)  The department may issue a permit to a municipality or qualified                                        
05       organization. The permit gives the municipality or qualified organization the privilege                           
06       of conducting bingo, raffles and lotteries, pull-tab games, ice classics, race classics,                          
07       rain classics, goose classics, mercury classics, deep freeze classics, canned salmon                              
08       classics, salmon classics, king salmon classics, dog mushers' contests, snow classics,                        
09       snow machine classics, fish derbies, animal classics, crane classics, cabbage classics,                           
10       Calcutta pools, and contests of skill.                                                                            
11    * Sec. 2. AS 05.15.115(c) is amended to read:                                                                      
12            (c)  A permittee may not contract with more than one operator at a time to                                   
13       conduct the same type of activity. For the purposes of this subsection, bingo games,                              
14       raffles, lotteries, pull-tab games, ice classics, race classics, rain classics, goose                             
15       classics, mercury classics, deep freeze classics, canned salmon classics, salmon                                  

01       classics, king salmon classics, dog mushers' contests, snow classics, snow machine                            
02       classics, fish derbies, animal classics, crane classics, cabbage classics, and contests of                        
03       skill are each a different type of activity.                                                                      
04    * Sec. 3. AS 05.15.180(b) is amended to read:                                                                      
05            (b)  With the exception of raffles, lotteries, bingo games, pull-tab games, race                             
06       classics, rain classics, goose classics, mercury classics, deep freeze classics, dog                              
07       mushers' contests, snow classics, snow machine classics, canned salmon classics,                              
08       salmon classics, animal classics, crane classics, cabbage classics, Calcutta pools, and                           
09       king salmon classics, an activity may not be licensed under this chapter unless it                                
10       existed in the state in substantially the same form and was conducted in substantially                            
11       the same manner before January 1, 1959. A snow machine classic may not be licensed                                
12       under this chapter unless it has been in existence for at least five years before the                             
13       licensing. An animal classic may not be licensed under this chapter unless it was in                              
14       existence before November 1, 2002.                                                                                
15    * Sec. 4. AS 05.15.690 is amended by adding a new paragraph to read:                                               
16                 (49)  "snow classic" means a game of chance in which a prize of money                                   
17       is awarded to the closest guess of the total snow accumulation on the ground at a                                 
18       specific location on Mount Alyeska on a specific date and time and is limited to the                              
19       Alyeska Snow Classic operated and administered by Four Valleys Community School,                                  
20       Inc.