Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 13 - Gaming
Part 9 - RACEBOOKS AND SPORTS POOLS
Chapter 1 - DEFINITIONS
Rule 13-9-1.1 - General Terms
Current through September 24, 2024
(a) "Book" means a race book or sports pool licensed and approved pursuant to Miss. Code Ann. § 75-76-89(2) and this regulation.
(b) "Chairman" means the chairman of the Mississippi Gaming Commission or the chairman's designee.
(c) "Communications technology" means the methods used and the components employed to facilitate the transmission of information including, but not limited to, transmission and reception systems based on wire, cable, radio, microwave, light, optics, or computer data networks.
(d) "Executive Director" mean the Executive Director of the Mississippi Gaming Commission or the Executive Director's designee.
(e) "Nonpari-mutuel wager" means a race book or sports pool wager other than one offered to be included in a common pari-mutuel pool.
(f) "Race book" means the business of accepting wagers upon the outcome of any event held at a track which uses the pari-mutuel system of wagering.
(g) "Sports governing body" means the organization that prescribes final rules and enforces codes of conduct with respect to a sporting event and participants therein
(h) "Sports pool" means the business of accepting wagers on collegiate or professional sportingevents or athletic events or other similar events.
(i) "Wagering account" means an electronic account that may be established by a patron at a casino property for the purpose of wagering pursuant to these regulations, including deposits, withdrawals, wagered amounts, and payouts on winning wagers.
(j) "Wagering communication" means the transmission of a wager between a point of origin and a point of reception by aid of a communications technology.
(k) "Wagering system" means the methodology and equipment approved by the Executive Director for accepting and recording wagers authorized by these regulations.
Miss. Code Ann. §§ 75-76-89 and 75-76-5.