New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Chapter 69 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Subchapter 1 - CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATION OF RULES
Section 13:69-1.2 - Definitions

1. As to casino licensees or applicants, the natural person who is ultimately responsible for the daily conduct of the hotel and gaming business of one or more affiliated casino licensees or applicants, regardless of the form of business association of the casino licensee or applicant or the particular title which that person or any other person holds. The chief executive officer may also function as the chief gaming executive of a single casino licensee or applicant if the chief executive officer is principally located at that casino hotel facility.

2. As to casino service industry enterprise licensees or applicants, the natural person who bears ultimate responsibility for the organization and business activities of the enterprise.

"Chipperson" means a person employed in the operation of a casino to possess an imprest inventory of gaming chips and currency received, placed in a chip cart, and used for the even exchange of coin, currency, coupons and slot tokens and other functions, only with patrons in the designated poker area.

"Coin acceptor" means the slot and accompanying device, approved by the Division, that is the part of a slot machine into which a patron, in the normal course of operating the machine, inserts a coin or slot token for the purpose of activating play and which is designed to identify those coins or slot tokens so inserted that are appropriate for use in that machine and to reject all slugs, prize tokens and other non-conforming objects so inserted.

"Coin hopper" means a secure, removable or non-removable, tamper-resistant container approved by the Division, which holds and dispenses a single denomination of coin from an automated jackpot payout machine or gaming voucher redemption machine.

"Coin hopper fill" means the initial placement of coin into an automated jackpot payout machine or gaming voucher redemption machine by inserting removable coin hoppers containing coin or depositing coin into non-removable coin hoppers or the subsequent replenishment of coin by replacing removable coin hoppers with coin hoppers containing coin or depositing coin into non-removable coin hoppers.

"Contested case" means a proceeding, including any licensing proceedings, in which the legal rights, duties, obligations, privileges, benefits or other legal relations of specific parties are required by constitutional right or by statute to be determined by an agency by decisions, determinations, or orders, addressed to them or disposing of their interests, after opportunity for an agency hearing.

"Controller" is defined in 13:69D-1.11(b)6.

"Count room" is defined in 13:69D-1.32(a).

"Count room supervisor" is defined in 13:69D-1.33(c) and 1.43(a).

"Coupon acceptance system" means a computerized system utilized by a casino licensee to establish the validity of and redeem coupons.

"Coupons considered in the calculation of gross revenue" shall include, without limitation, match play coupons, chip coupons, keno coupons and coupons accepted by bill validators.

"Cumulative progressive jackpot meter" is defined in 13:69D-1.39(b)2.

"Currency" means paper money issued by the United States of America as legal tender.

"Currency cassette" means a secure, removable, tamper-resistant container, approved by the Division, which holds and dispenses a single denomination of currency from an automated coupon redemption machine, automated jackpot payout machine or gaming voucher redemption machine.

"Currency cassette fill" means the initial placement of currency into an automated jackpot payout machine or gaming voucher redemption machine by inserting currency cassettes containing currency and an empty currency cassette reject bin, or the subsequent replenishment of currency into such a machine by replacing currency cassettes and the currency cassette reject bin with currency cassettes containing currency and an empty currency cassette reject bin.

"Currency cassette reject bin" means a secure, tamper-resistant container in an automated jackpot payout machine or gaming voucher redemption machine into which currency is deposited from a currency cassette as a test or because the currency cassette dispensed the incorrect amount of currency.

"Director of security" is defined in 13:69D-1.11(b)5.

"Director of surveillance" is defined in 13:69D-1.11(b)1.

"Electronic credit" means an electronic signal or transmission which is generated by a device contained in or connected to a slot machine and which is initiated by a player as a means to activate the play of the slot machine.

"Foreign slot token" means a slot token issued by an establishment other than the casino licensee at which it is wagered.

"Free play award" means an outcome on a slot machine play that has no cash value to the patron but entitles the patron to activate one or more additional plays without making an additional slot machine wager.

"Game cycle" means the estimated number of game activations required to achieve each of the game outcomes that are possible in a primary slot machine game.

"Game-within-a-game" means a distinct set of plays that are described to the public on a slot machine as an authorized game but are only available for wagering if a patron first makes a wager on, and achieves a specific outcome from, a play offered as part of a primary slot machine game. A single primary slot machine game may include more than one game-within-a-game.

"Gaming voucher" means a hard copy receipt that evidences a payout from a slot machine, is printed by and dispensed from either a cashiering location or a device contained in and operatively connected to a slot machine in a manner approved by the Division.

"Gaming Voucher Error Receipt" is a receipt issued by a gaming voucher redemption machine to evidence the failure of the machine to issue the full amount of cash in redemption of a gaming voucher. It contains the time and date, identifies the machine and specifies the amount of money that the machine failed to dispense.

"Hard count room" is defined in 13:69D-1.32(d).

"Hopper" is defined in 13:69D-1.36(a)1.

"Hub facility" is defined in N.J.A.C. 13:69M-1.1.

"Interested person" means any person whose specific legal rights, duties, obligations, privileges, benefits or other specific legal relations are affected by the adoption, amendment or repeal of a specific regulation or by any decision, order or ruling of the Commission or Division.

"Jackpot" means any money, merchandise, gaming voucher or thing of value to be paid to a patron as determined by the approved program that controls a slot machine.

"Jackpot display" means a specific combination of characters or other display on a slot machine generated by the slot machine's approved program to clearly indicate it has awarded a specific jackpot.

"Jackpot scripting" means a programmed sequence of events included in a slot machine game that is used to disclose a randomly pre-selected variable outcome to a patron in a particular manner but does not otherwise affect the outcome.

"Last game recall" means the capability of a slot machine game to display the outcome of the previous play.

"Layout" means the cloth covering a gaming table, containing designated areas for patrons to place the various wagers of the game, and such rules of the game, payoff odds and other information or graphics as the Division shall require.

"Limited time payout" means a jackpot offered by a slot machine game that is only available to be won for a limited period of time during the game cycle.

"Linked slot machine" is defined in 13:69D-1.39(c).

"Location number" means the unique number assigned to each site on a casino floor or in a casino simulcasting facility that contains the following: a pit and each table game located therein, a slot machine and any bill changer attached thereto or incorporated therein, an automated coupon redemption machine, a credit voucher machine or a self-service pari-mutuel machine.

"Logic board serial number" means a number assigned to a logic board by a casino licensee or its agent for identification and control purposes, which number shall correspond to the manufacturer's serial number of the slot machine in which the logic board is installed and shall be permanently imprinted, impressed, affixed or engraved on the logic board.

"Manufacturer's serial number" means a unique number permanently assigned to a slot machine by a slot machine manufacturer for identification and control purposes, which number shall be affixed to the outside of the slot machine cabinet in a location as approved by the Division.

"MIS department manager" is defined in 13:69D-1.11(b)3.

"MIS security officer" is defined in 13:69D-1.11(b)3.

"Multi-denominational," when used in conjunction with or in reference to a slot machine, means a slot machine that contains one or more slot machine games on which a patron has the option to make wagers in different denominations.

"On a daily basis" means something which occurs or is performed each gaming day.

"Operation certificate" means a certificate issued by the Division which certifies that operation of a casino and, if applicable, of a casino simulcasting facility conforms to the requirements of the Act and applicable rules.

"Optimal strategy" means the choice from among more than one option presented to a patron by a slot machine game which, if selected by the patron, offers the greatest theoretical rate of return to the patron.

"Pari-mutuel ticket" is defined in N.J.A.C. 13:69M-1.1.

"Patron access control" means a system or device used by a casino licensee to identify and grant a patron exclusive authority to initiate the transmission of electronic credits to the electronic transfer credit meter of a slot machine and may include, without limitation, the use of a patron access card with a magnetically coded strip, a coded key pad system or any other means of patron access control approved by the Division.

"Payout-only slot machine hopper" or "payout-only hopper" is defined in 13:69D-1.36(a)1 ii.

"Physical connection" means an enclosed permanent pedestrian passageway. In no event shall the main entrance or only access to an approved hotel be through a casino.

"Pit" means the area enclosed or encircled by the arrangement of gaming tables in which casino personnel administer and supervise the games played at the tables by the patrons located on the outside perimeter of the area.

"Play," as in "a play," means, for purposes of a slot machine game, all gaming transactions that may be initiated by the making of a specific slot machine wager. A play includes the making of a slot machine wager or the use of a free play award in lieu of the wager, the activation of the slot machine game by the patron and an indication to the patron of the outcome of the wager including, if a jackpot is won, the payment of the jackpot. All available plays must be displayed on the slot machine. For example, a slot machine game may include a $ 1.00 play (requiring a $ 1.00 wager), a $ 2.00 play (requiring a $ 2.00 wager) and a $ 3.00 play (requiring a $ 3.00 wager). The $ 1.00 play includes all potential outcomes that may result when a $ 1.00 wager is made on the slot machine game.

"Primary slot machine game" means a distinct set of plays that are described to the public on a slot machine as an authorized game and are available to a patron for wagering without regard to whether the patron has made a prior slot machine wager on that slot machine game. A single slot machine may contain one or more primary slot machine games.

"Progressive jackpot" is defined in 13:69D-1.39(a).

"Public area" means the areas in each casino and casino simulcasting facility that are open to the public in accordance with a casino licensee's internal controls.

"Regulation" or "rule" means the regulation adopted by the Commission or Division pursuant to the Act.

"Representation of gaming debt" means a document issued by a casino licensee in a form approved by the Division to evidence a specific amount of money owed to a patron by the casino licensee as a result of a gaming transaction, and includes a gaming voucher and winning keno ticket, but does not include a gaming chip, gaming plaque, slot token, jackpot payout receipt, receipt for table game, tournament or bad beat payout, winning pari-mutuel ticket or simulcasting credit voucher.

"Restricted areas" or "restricted casino areas" means the cashiers' cage, the soft count room, the hard count room, the slot booths and runway areas, the interior of table game pits, the surveillance room and catwalk areas, the slot machine repair room, the simulcast counter, the specific areas designated and approved pursuant to N.J.S.A. 5:12-100b for the possession and maintenance of gaming equipment (such as computers) that supports the conduct of gaming in the casino or casino simulcasting facility, the areas used for storing or destroying dice or cards, the locksmith shop, any additional area that a casino licensee designates as restricted in its internal controls, and any other area specifically designated by the Division as restricted elsewhere in the rules of the Division or in a particular casino licensee's operation certificate.

"Restricted brewery authorization" is defined in 13:69I-1.4A.

"Riffle shuffle" means a type of shuffle performed by the dealer pursuant to which a single deck of cards is divided into two approximately equal stacks that are placed face down on the gaming table next to one another, the shorter edges of the cards in both stacks are bent upwards and released in such a manner so that the cards in both stacks become interlaced and combined to reform a single complete deck of cards. If multiple decks of cards are being riffle shuffled, the dealer shall place the decks in a single stack, remove a stack of cards from the top that is approximately equal to a single deck of cards, perform a riffle shuffle on the removed stack, and repeat the process as many times as necessary until the entire original stack of cards has been shuffled in this manner.

"Scripting" means information that is programmed to be displayed in a particular manner by a slot machine game that is unrelated or unnecessary to the illustration of the actual gaming transaction to the patron.

"Simulcast horse race" is defined in N.J.A.C. 13:69M-1.1.

"Simulcast payout" means the money paid to a patron in exchange for a credit voucher or a winning, cancelled or refunded pari-mutuel ticket.

"Skill feature" means a play on a slot machine game that requires the patron to make a choice as to how to proceed in the game, where the available choices affect the theoretical payout percentage of the play and the game, and the game uses electronic representations of a standard set of playing cards, a standard set of dice, or some other set of symbols or numbers where the probability of choosing any particular symbol or number in the set is one divided by the total number of elements in the set.

"Slot department manager" is defined in 13:69D-1.12(c).

"Slot machine game" means a primary slot machine game or a game-within-a-game.

"Slot machine main program" means the software that controls those aspects of a slot machine prototype that are necessary to the operation of a slot machine game, including, without limitation, its meters, random number generator and security. More than one slot machine main program may be approved for a slot machine prototype, but only one slot machine main program shall at any given time control the operation of a slot machine. "Slot machine main program" does not include software that controls only, without limitation, the pay tables, sound or graphics of a slot machine game or the operation of a bill changer or gaming voucher printer connected to the slot machine.

"Slot machine wager" means the total value of coins, currency, coupons, slot tokens or electronic credits generated that are required to activate a particular slot machine play.

"Slot zone" means a specified area on a casino floor that contains one or more a slot machines.

"Slug" means any object, excluding coin appropriately used to activate play and foreign slot tokens, that is found in a slot machine hopper, slot drop bucket or slot drop box.

"Soft count room" is defined in 13:69D-1.32(d).

"Strategy feature" means a play on a slot machine game that requires a patron to make a choice whether to accept a variable outcome or risk it for another variable outcome.

"Strip shuffle" means a type of shuffle performed by the dealer pursuant to which a single deck of cards is placed face down on the gaming table and stacks of cards comprised of no more than 15 cards each are successively removed from the top of the deck and placed adjacently on the gaming table to reform a stacked single deck. If multiple decks of cards are being strip shuffled, the dealer shall place the decks of cards in a single stack, remove a stack of cards from the top that is approximately equal to a single deck of cards, perform a strip shuffle on the removed stack, and repeat the process as many times as necessary until the entire original stack of cards has been shuffled in this manner.

"Table game" means one of the following authorized games approved by the Division pursuant to 5:12-5: asia poker, baccarat, big six, blackjack, boston 5 stud poker, caribbean stud poker, casino war, colorado hold 'em poker, craps, double attack blackjack, double cross poker, double down stud, fast action hold 'em, flop poker, four card poker, let it ride poker, minibaccarat, mini-craps, mini-dice, mississippi stud, pai gow, pai gow poker, poker, pokette, red dog, roulette, sic bo, spanish 21, supreme pai gow, texas hold 'em bonus poker, three card poker, two card joker poker, ultimate texas hold 'em and winner's pot poker.

"Theoretical payout percentage" of a play or slot machine game means the total value of the jackpots expected to be paid by a play or slot machine game divided by the total value of slot machine wagers expected to be made on that play or slot machine game during the same portion of the game cycle, calculated in accordance with the provisions of 13:69E-1.28A.

"Variable outcome" means an outcome that is randomly selected from a disclosed range of outcomes that become available when a specified jackpot is achieved in a slot machine game. The probability of selecting any particular outcome in the range shall in no way be based upon the number or value of prior slot machine wagers made on the slot machine game.

"Washing or chemmy shuffle" means a mixing of the cards, during which the cards are placed face down on the table and randomly intermixed by the dealer using the heels of the palms of the hands, by rotating one hand in a circular clockwise motion and the other hand in a circular counterclockwise motion, with each hand completing at least eight full circles.

"Zone letter" or "zone number" means the unique alpha or numeric designation assigned to each slot zone.