Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 39, September 26, 2024
(a) A
facility manager shall place a table game that offers a progressive jackpot
only if the executive director has approved the following:
(1) The initial and reset amounts for the
progressive meters;
(2) the system
for controlling the keys and applicable logical access controls to the table
games;
(3) the proposed rate of
progression for each jackpot;
(4)
the proposed limit for progressive jackpot, if any; and
(5) the calculated probability of winning
each progressive jackpot. The probability shall not exceed 50 million to
one.
(b) Progressive
meters shall not be reset or reduced unless one of the following occurs:
(1) The amount indicated has been actually
paid to a winning patron.
(2) The
progressive jackpot amount won by the patron has been recorded in accordance
with a system of internal controls approved by the commission.
(3) The progressive jackpot has been
transferred to another progressive table game and the transfer has been
approved by the executive director.
(4) The change is necessitated by a meter
malfunction, and the commission has been notified of the resetting in
writing.
(c) A facility
manager shall not alter the odds of winning a progressive jackpot unless the
jackpot has been transferred to another progressive table game in accordance
with subsection (d).
(d) A facility
manager may limit, transfer, or terminate a progressive jackpot or progressive
game offered on the gaming floor under any of the following circumstances:
(1) A progressive jackpot may be limited if
the payout limit is greater than the payout amount displayed on the progressive
jackpot meter to patrons. The facility manager shall provide notice to the
commission of the imposition or modification of a payout limit on a progressive
meter concurrent with the setting of the payout limit.
(2) A progressive jackpot game may be
terminated concurrent with the winning of the progressive jackpot if the
progressive controller was configured to automatically establish a fixed reset
amount with no progressive increment.
(3) A progressive jackpot amount may be
transferred from a gaming floor. The facility manager shall give notice to the
commission of its intent to transfer the progressive jackpot at least 30 days
before the anticipated transfer, and the facility manager shall conspicuously
display the facility manager's intent to transfer the progressive jackpot on
the front of each affected table game for at least 30 days. To be eligible for
transfer, the progressive jackpot shall be transferred in its entirety and
shall meet one of the following conditions:
(A) Be transferred to the progressive meter
for a table game with the same or greater probability of winning the
progressive jackpot, with the same or lower wager requirement to be eligible to
win the progressive jackpot, and with the same type of progressive
jackpot;
(B) be transferred to the
progressive meters of two separate table games if each table game progressive
system to which the jackpot is transferred individually meets the requirements
of paragraph (d)(3)(A); or
(C) be
transferred to the most similar table game progressive system that is available
if approved by the executive director.
(4) A progressive jackpot on a stand-alone
progressive table game system may be removed from a gaming floor if notice of
intent to remove the progressive jackpot meets the following conditions:
(A) The notice is conspicuously displayed on
the front of each table game for at least 30 days.
(B) The notice of intent is provided in
writing to the commission at least 30 days before the removal of the
progressive jackpot.
(e) The amount indicated on the progressive
meter on each table game governed by subsection (a) shall be recorded by the
facility manager's accounting department on a progressive electronic gaming
summary report at least once every seven calendar days. Each report shall be
signed by the person preparing the report. If the report is not prepared by the
accounting department, the progressive electronic gaming summary report shall
be forwarded to the accounting department at the end of the gaming day on which
the report is prepared. An employee of the accounting department shall be
responsible for calculating the correct amount that should appear on a
progressive meter. If an adjustment to the progressive meters is necessary, the
adjustment shall be made by a member of the EGM department as follows:
(1) Supporting documentation shall be
maintained to explain any addition or reduction in the registered amount on the
progressive meter. The documentation shall include the date, the asset number
of the table game, the amount of the adjustment, and the signatures of the
accounting department member requesting the adjustment and the EGM department
member making the adjustment.
(2)
The adjustment shall be effectuated within 48 hours of the meter
reading.
(f) Except as
otherwise authorized by this regulation, each table game offering a progressive
jackpot that is removed from the gaming floor shall be returned to or replaced
on the gaming floor within five gaming days. The amount on the progressive
meter on the returned or replacement table game shall not be less than the
amount on the progressive meter at the time of removal, unless the amount was
transferred or paid out in accordance with these regulations. If a table game
offering a progressive jackpot is not returned or replaced, any progressive
meter amount at the time of removal shall, within five days of the table game's
removal, be added to a table game offering a progressive jackpot approved by
the executive director. The table game shall offer the same or greater
probability of winning the progressive jackpot and shall require the same or
lower denomination of currency to play that was in use on the table game that
was removed.
(g) If a table game is
located adjacent to a table game offering a progressive jackpot, the facility
manager shall conspicuously display on the table game a notice advising patrons
that the table game is not participating in the progressive jackpot of the
adjacent table game.
