Current through Register 1531, September 27, 2024
(1) Each gaming
chip which does not contain a denomination on either face thereof shall be
known as a "non-value" chip.
(2)
Each non-value chip utilized in a gaming establishment shall be issued solely
for the purpose of gaming at roulette.
(3) Each non-value chip issued by a gaming
licensee shall contain certain identifying characteristics that may appear in
any location at least once on each face of the gaming chip and shall be applied
in a manner which ensures that each such characteristic shall be clearly
visible and remain a permanent part of the gaming chip. The characteristics
required by 205 CMR 146.04 shall be applied in such a manner so as to be
visible to surveillance employees using the closed circuit television system.
The identifying characteristics of a non-value chip, at a minimum, shall
include:
(a) The name, trade name, or other
identification of the gaming licensee issuing the non-value chip;
(b) A design, insert, or symbol that will
permit a set of non-value chips being used at a particular gaming table to be
distinguished from the non-value chips being used at every other gaming table
in the gaming establishment;
(c)
The word "Roulette;" and
(d) Such
color and/or design combinations as the Bureau may approve so as to readily
distinguish the non-value chips of each player at a particular gaming table
from the non-value chips of every other player at the same gaming table and the
value chips issued by any gaming licensee.
(4) Each non-value chip issued by a gaming
licensee shall contain an identifying characteristic, to be known as an "edge
spot," which shall:
(a) Be applied in a manner
which ensures that the edge spot shall:
1. Be
clearly visible on the edge and, to the extent required by the Bureau, on each
face of the non-value chip; and
2.
Remain a permanent part of the non-value chip;
(b) Be created by using the colors approved
for the face of the particular non-value chip pursuant to 205 CMR 146.04 in
combination with one or more other colors that provide a contrast with the
color on the face of the chip and that enable it to be distinguished from the
non-value chips issued by any other gaming licensee; and
(c) Include a design, pattern or other
feature approved by the Bureau that a person with adequate training could
readily use to identify, when viewing the non-value chip through the closed
circuit television system of the gaming licensee, the player to whom the
non-value chip has been assigned when the non-value chip is placed in a stack
of gaming chips or in any other location where only the edge of the non-value
chip is visible; provided, however, that the design, pattern or feature created
by the colors required by 205 CMR 146.04 shall be sufficient by itself to
satisfy the requirements of 205 CMR 146.04(4)(c) if approved for that purpose
by the Bureau.
(5) Each
gaming licensee shall have a reserve non-value chip for each color utilized in
the gaming establishment with a design insert or symbol different from those
non-value chips comprising the primary set.
