Current through September 18, 2024
Authority: IC 4-33-4; IC 4-35-4
Affected: IC 4-33; IC 4-35
Sec. 4.
(a) Each
casino licensee and casino license applicant shall establish internal control
procedures for compliance with this rule, which shall be submitted and approved
under 68 IAC 11.
(b) The internal
controls must, at a minimum, address the following:
(1) Provide a plan for distributing the names
and personal information of voluntarily excluded persons to appropriate
personnel of the casino. The plan must allow, to a reasonable extent,
appropriate employees of a casino licensee to identify a voluntarily excluded
person when that person is present in a casino. This information shall not be
released to casinos in other jurisdictions. However, nothing in this rule shall
prohibit a casino licensee from effectuating the eviction of a voluntarily
excluded person from other properties within their corporate structure so that
the person will be denied gaming privileges at casinos under the same parent
company in other jurisdictions.
(2)
Provide a process whereby gaming agents and security and surveillance are
notified immediately when a voluntarily excluded person is detected in the
gaming area of a casino.
(3) Refuse
wagers from and deny gaming privileges to any voluntarily excluded
person.
(4) Make all reasonable
attempts to ensure that voluntarily excluded persons do not receive direct
marketing. A casino licensee will satisfy this requirement if the casino
licensee removes the voluntarily excluded person's name from the list of
patrons to whom direct marketing materials are sent, and the voluntarily
excluded person does not receive direct marketing materials more than
forty-five (45) days after the casino licensee receives notice, under section
3(a) of this rule, that the voluntarily excluded person has entered the
VEP.
(5) Ensure that voluntarily
excluded persons do not receive check cashing privileges or extensions of
credit, whether directly through the casino licensee or operating agent, or
through a supplier contracting with a casino licensee on property hired for the
purpose of check cashing or extension of credit, or both.
(c) Nothing in this rule shall prohibit a
casino licensee from seeking payment of a debt from a voluntarily excluded
person if the debt was accrued by a person before he or she entered the
VEP.
(d) A casino licensee shall
post signs at the turnstiles marking the entrance to the gaming area that shall
inform and educate patrons about the VEP. The text that the casino licensee
proposes to have on the signs must be submitted to the commission staff for
approval before posting.
(e) A
casino licensee shall be subject to disciplinary action under 68 IAC 13 for
failure to comply with the requirements of this section and the internal
control procedures outlined under this section, including, but not limited to,
the following:
(1) Release of confidential
information for a purpose other than enforcement.
(2) Knowingly refusing to withhold direct
marketing, check cashing, and credit privileges.
(3) Failure to follow internal control
procedures adopted under this rule.
