(a) The Mississippi
Gaming Commission will process all work permit applications, to include taking
photographs and fingerprints from all applicants. The Commission shall conduct
background investigations on all work permit applicants. The applicant shall
provide any information requested by the Executive Director in order to allow
for a complete investigation of the applicants background.
(b) An applicant for a work permit shall pay
the application fee established by the Executive Director, which shall be
sufficient to cover the costs of processing the application.
(c) The Executive Director shall investigate
the applicant and may either grant or deny the work permit. The burden is on
the applicant at all times to prove suitability for a work permit.
(d) The Executive Director shall refuse to
issue a work permit if the applicant has:
1.
committed, attempted or conspired to commit a crime which is a felony in
Mississippi or an offense in any other jurisdiction which would be a felony if
committed in Mississippi, regardless of
whether the charges have been non-adjudicated or expunged;
(e) The Executive Director may refuse to
issue a work permit if the applicant has:
1.
failed to disclose, misstated or otherwise attempted to mislead the Commission
with respect to any material fact contained in the work permit
application;
2. knowingly failed to
comply with the provisions of the Gaming Control Act, MGC regulations, and /or
internal controls of a gaming licensee as filed with and approved by the
Commission;
3. committed, attempted
or conspired to commit any crime of moral turpitude, embezzlement or larceny or
any violation of any law pertaining to gaming or any crime which is inimical to
the declared policy of Mississippi concerning gaming including, but not limited
to, the following: any misdemeanor theft convictions, excluding first time
conviction for false pretense/bad checks (false pretense) during the three (3)
years prior to the date of application;
i. any
misdemeanor drug convictions during the three (3) years prior to the date of
application;
ii. any misdemeanor
convictions pertaining to gaming or gambling during the three (3) years prior
to the date of application;
iii.
any misdemeanor convictions pertaining to crimes of violence during the three
(3) years prior to the date of application; and
iv. any pattern of criminal offenses making
an applicant unsuitable;
4. been identified in published reports of
any federal or state legislative or executive body as being a member or
associate of organized crime, or as being of notorious and unsavory
reputation;
5. been placed and
remains in the constructive custody of any federal, state or municipal law
enforcement authority when the crime involved would be a crime constituting
grounds for denial of an application;
6. had a work permit revoked or committed any
act which is a ground for the revocation of a work permit or would have been a
ground for revoking a work permit if the applicant had been holding a work
permit at that time.
7. failed to
complete the application process for a gaming work permit by:
i. failing to submit to additional
fingerprinting where initial fingerprints are insufficient for proper
analysis;
ii. failing to provide
the Commission with court records and/or other requested documents detailing
the disposition of previous arrests and/or convictions as well as facts and
circumstances of the underlying offense(s); or
iii. failing to provide any other requested
information necessary to determine the suitability of the applicant. The above
enumerated reasons for denial shall not limit the Executive Directors
discretion to deny an applicant if that applicant has committed, attempted or
conspired to do any act which is inimical to the best interest of gaming in
Mississippi. (Adopted: 09/25/1991; Amended: 03/29/1993; Amended:
10/22/1998.)
Miss. Code Ann.
§§
75-76-63,
75-76-67
