New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Chapter 69D - GAMING OPERATION ACCOUNTING CONTROLS AND STANDARDS
Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 13:69D-1.1 - Definitions
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Alterable media" means any device that contains software that can be reprogrammed. It does not include erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM) or one-time programmable devices.
"Annuity jackpot" means any slot machine jackpot offered by a casino licensee, wide area progressive or multi-state progressive slot system whereby a patron wins the right to receive cash payments at specified intervals in the future.
"Asset number" means a unique number permanently assigned to a slot machine and a slot cash storage box for purposes of tracking that machine and storage box.
"Authorized instrument" means a cash equivalent, a check issued by an entity that holds a gaming license in any jurisdiction, an annuity jackpot trust check, a replacement check, or any other instrument approved by the Division for a specified purpose.
"Automated payout machine" means a device connected to an approved slot monitoring system which prints a Payout slip and dispenses cash to a slot attendant to process a hand pay.
"Auto pick" means an automated feature of a slot machine game that forces a game play selection without human interaction.
"Base game" means the initial slot machine game play that is activated by placing a wager.
"Cage supervisor" means any person who supervises personnel and functions within a cashiers' cage and reports to the cage manager.
"Cash" means currency or coin.
"Cash equivalent" means a:
1. Certified check, cashiers check, treasurer's check, recognized travelers check or recognized money order that:
i. Is made payable to the casino licensee where presented, a holding company of the casino licensee, "bearer," or "cash";
ii. Is dated, but not postdated; and
iii. Does not contain any endorsement;
2. Certified check, cashiers check, treasurer's check, or recognized money order that:
i. Is made payable to the presenting patron;
ii. Is endorsed in blank by the presenting patron;
iii. Is dated but not postdated; and
iv. Does not contain any endorsement other than that of the presenting patron; or
3. Recognized credit card or debit card presented by a patron in accordance with the rules of the Division.
"Cashable" means an item which can be converted to cash.
"Cashiering location" means any automated voucher redemption or payout machine, or a window in a structure approved by the Division within the casino hotel facility from which an employee of the casino licensee conducts casino or casino simulcasting cashiering transactions with patrons or employees including, without limitation, a cashiers' cage, satellite cage, master coin bank, coin vault, simulcast counter, ancillary simulcast counter, slot booth, coin redemption booth, jackpot/hopper window, and keno booth.
"Cashiers' cage" or "main cage" is defined in N.J.A.C. 13:69D-1.14.
"Casino clerk" means a member of the accounting department who prepares documentation required for the operation of table games.
"Casino supervisor" means a person employed in the operation of a casino or of the authorized games in a casino simulcasting facility in a supervisory capacity or empowered to make discretionary decisions which regulate casino operations.
"CCTV system location" means any location in the casino hotel facility, not controlled by Division employees, that has been approved by the Division to receive transmissions from the surveillance department's closed circuit television system including, without limitation, CCTV system monitoring rooms, surveillance department offices, CCTV system repair areas, and CCTV system emergency facilities.
"Chief gaming executive" means the person located at a single casino hotel facility who is responsible for the daily conduct of an applicant's or casino licensee's gaming business including, except as otherwise specified therein, the direct or indirect supervision of the mandatory departments, regardless of the applicant's or casino licensee's form of business association or the particular title which that person or any other person holds. Unless the chief gaming executive also serves as the chief executive officer of the applicant or casino licensee, the chief gaming executive shall report directly to the chief executive officer of the applicant or casino licensee.
"Closer" means the original of the Table Inventory Slip upon which each table inventory is recorded at the end of each shift.
"Compensation" means direct or indirect payments for services performed including, but not limited to, salary, wages bonuses, deferred payments, and overtime and premium payments.
"Complimentary distribution program" is a program, contest, or promotion pursuant to which complimentary services or items are provided directly or indirectly by a casino licensee to the public with or without regard to the identity or level of gaming activity of the individual recipients.
"Credential number" means the number associated with any registration or license issued by the Division or Commission.
"Credit" is a Credit Slip and the corresponding chips, coins, and/or plaques being removed from a gaming table.
"Critical game code" means software that is used to determine game outcome, calculate revenue, increment meters, report revenue, or ensure the overall integrity of a gaming device.
"Denomination" when used in conjunction with or in reference to a slot machine, means the value of the unit in which wagers are made or paid.
"Electronic account based wagering system" is a function within a controlled computer system, defined at N.J.A.C. 13:69D-2.1, or an approved independent computer system which allows players to transfer efunds to or from a patron account or from a temporary anonymous account.
"Electronic fund transfer" means a transfer of funds, other than a transaction originated by check, draft, or similar paper instrument that is initiated through an electronic terminal, telephone, computer, or magnetic tape for the purpose of ordering, instructing, or authorizing a financial institution to debit or credit an account. For the purposes herein, the term does not include a debit card cash transaction as defined in this section, a debit card chip transaction as defined in N.J.A.C. 13:69D-1.18A, or any transactions exempt, by statute or regulation, from the provisions of Title IX of the Federal Consumer Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1693.
"Electronic funds ("efunds")" means electronic cashable or non-cashable funds.
"Electronic funds deposit" means the transmission of efunds to a patron account using an approved electronic account based wagering system.
"Electronic funds withdrawal" means the transmission of efunds using an approved electronic account based wagering system from a patron account or temporary anonymous account to either a gaming table or slot machine if such gaming table or slot machine is connected to an account based wagering system.
"Electronic gaming device" means a slot machine, a multi-player system, or an electronic table game, as well as other devices or equipment for which Division approval is required.
"Electronic table game drop" is:
1. The same calculation as table game drop for an electronic gaming table which accepts only cash, chip coupons, or gaming chips or plaques;
2. The amount of patron account withdrawals for an electronic gaming table which utilizes an account based wagering system; or
3. The total value of currency, gaming vouchers and coupons in a slot cash storage box, for an electronic table game which accepts gaming vouchers.
"Fill" is a Fill Slip and the corresponding chips, coins, and/or plaques being distributed to a gaming table.
"Game Authentication Terminal" or "GAT" means an external application that is used to verify Division approved software.
"Game cycle" means the total number of symbol combinations that can be made by multiplying the sum of the reel weights for all symbols.
"Gaming tournament revenue" means the sum of all entry fees and any other funds collected but not included in the prize pool.
"Gaming voucher credit" means the equivalent value of coins or slot tokens registered on the credit meter of a slot machine as a result of a patron inserting a gaming voucher into the slot machine, which value shall also be recorded on the voucher in meter.
"Gaming voucher redemption machine" means a device connected to an approved gaming voucher system which dispenses cash in exchange for a valid gaming voucher.
"Hand pay" means a payment made to a patron as a result of a gaming device lock up.
"Handle" means the total value of coins, slot tokens, including foreign slot tokens, currency, coupons, gaming vouchers, and efunds to activate the play of a slot machine or an electronic table game.
"Hopper inventory level" means the total dollar value of the initial fill of a slot machine hopper or an adjusted total that includes any subsequent increases in the total dollar value of the initial fill.
"Imprest" means maintaining a fixed balance of funds through the exchange of assets of an equivalent value.
"Incompatible function" means a function, for accounting control purposes, that places any person or department supervisor in a position to both perpetrate and conceal errors or irregularities in the normal course of his or her duties.
"Keno drop" means the sum of the total value of currency, coin, gaming chips, coupons, and slot tokens wagered on keno tickets.
"Keno win or loss" means the total value of currency, coin, gaming chips, coupons, and slot tokens wagered by patrons at keno less the total value of currency and coin paid to patrons for winning keno wagers.
"Linked progressive" means a progressive jackpot established for two or more electronic gaming devices where each device contributes to the same progressive jackpot.
"Local area progressive" means a linked progressive established for a single casino licensee.
"Locking mechanism" or "locking system" means a device or process, such as a mechanical lock and key or computer coding, to access a secured container, compartment, or location as prescribed in this chapter.
"Lock up" means any condition where an electronic gaming device becomes inoperable when a jackpot or patron credit meter payout is not automatically paid by the device.
"Lock up electronic signal" means the information transmitted by an electronic gaming device to the slot monitoring system when a lock up occurs which shall not be susceptible to change or removal.
"Lock up verifier" means a security guard, or a slot attendant or above with no incompatible functions who independently verifies the amount to be paid to a patron for a lock up.
"Mantrap" is a double door entry and exit system that will not permit a person to pass through the second door until the first door is securely locked.
"MSPS" means multi-state progressive slot system.
"Multi-level progressive" means more than one progressive jackpot on a slot machine or linked progressive where each progressive jackpot is identified as a separate level.
"Multi-player system" is defined in N.J.A.C. 13:69E-1.28F.
"Multi-state jackpot" means any progressive slot machine jackpot offered by one or more casino licensees in conjunction with a licensee from another jurisdiction pursuant to a multi-state progressive slot system (MSPS) agreement.
"Non-cashable" means an item which cannot be converted to cash.
"Opener" means the duplicate copy of the table inventory slip upon which each table inventory is recorded at the end of each shift and serves as the record of each table inventory at the beginning of the next succeeding shift.
"Outstanding patron check" means any Counter Check, Slot Counter Check, or replacement check that is not due for deposit or presentation and has not been deposited or presented for payment or redeemed by the drawer.
"Pari-mutuel window net" means the total value of credit vouchers issued and wagers placed on simulcast horse races at a pari-mutuel window less the total value of simulcast payouts at the same pari-mutuel window. Pari-mutuel window net shall be calculated by the totalisator.
"Patron account" means an account established by a casino licensee which shall be unique to an individual patron and which may encompass a patron deposit account and/or a patron credit account.
"Patron cash deposit" means the total value of cash, cash equivalents, complimentary cash gifts, slot tokens, prize tokens, gaming chips, or plaques or other authorized items deposited with a casino licensee by a patron for his or her subsequent use.
"Poker revenue" means the total value of rake charged to patrons at all poker tables pursuant to N.J.A.C. 13:69F-14.14. The poker revenue is determined by adding the value of cash, coupons, other authorized items, the amount recorded on the Closer, the totals of amounts recorded on the Credits and issuance copies of Counter Checks, and the total of the amounts recorded on documents that evidence the exchange of gaming chips or plaques as part of credit card or debit card chip transactions, and subtracting the amount on the Opener and the total of amounts recorded on Fills and other authorized items.
"Primary progressive" means the progressive jackpot of the highest value on a multi-level progressive.
"Progressive controller" means an electronic device approved by the Division programmed to establish and control a progressive jackpot.
"Progressive display" means one or more progressive meters that display the calculated value of each progressive jackpot. The display may be external to the slot machine.
"Progressive jackpot" means a jackpot that increases based upon a set rate of progression.
"Progressive payout limit" means the value at which a progressive jackpot no longer increments.
"Rake" is defined in N.J.A.C. 13:69F-14.1.
"Recognized credit card" means a credit or charge card that:
1. Is issued by or under an agreement with a company that, as a normal part of its business, supplies its customers, either directly or through a national credit card network, with credit or charge cards that can be used for and are routinely accepted in consumer transactions; and
2. Qualifies as a credit card for purposes of Regulation Z issued by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ( 12 CFR Part 226 ).
"Recognized debit card" means a debit card that:
1. Is issued by or under an agreement with a company that qualifies as a "depository institution" as defined in Section 19(b) of the Federal Reserve Act, 12 U.S.C. § 461(b), and that, as a normal part of its business, supplies its customers, either directly or through a registered debit card verification agency, with access to funds maintained for the cardholder in such depository institution by means of a debit card that is routinely accepted in consumer transactions or used to obtain cash; and
2. Qualifies as an access device for purposes of Regulation E issued by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ( 12 CFR Part 205 ).
"Registered debit card verification agency" means an organization that:
1. Verifies, upon request from a merchant, the validity and account sufficiency of a recognized debit card in the normal course of its business; and
2. Is authorized to perform the verification for purposes of Regulation E issued by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (12 CFR Part 205).
"Registered electronic funds transfer company" means an organization that:
1. Verifies, upon request from a merchant, the validity and account sufficiency of a recognized credit card in the normal course of its business; and
2. Is authorized to perform the verification for purposes of Regulation E issued by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (12 CFR Part 205).
"Replacement Counter Check" means a Counter Check prepared in the cage that is issued during a partial redemption or consolidation transaction.
"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 cashable gaming voucher, sports pool vouchers, and winning keno and sports wagering tickets, but does not include a non-cashable or cashier generated gaming voucher, gaming chip or plaque, slot token, jackpot payout receipt, receipt for table game, tournament or bad beat payout, winning pari-mutuel ticket, simulcast voucher, or any form of electronic credit.
"Residual slot credit" means a slot machine credit, on a slot machine equipped with tokenization, in an amount which is less than the denomination of the token that the slot machine is designed to accept and pay out, and which cannot be totally and automatically paid from the slot machine for that reason.
"Return to Player" or "RTP" means the portion of wagers returned to patrons during the game after a certain number of games played.
"Scan" means to attempt to verify a gaming voucher or coupon in a gaming voucher system by utilizing a device that can read its bar code, or by manually inputting the serial number of the coupon or the validation number of the gaming voucher into the system.
"Scripting" means presentation to the patron of an outcome that has not been determined by a random number generator.
"Shift" means the regular, daily work period of a group of employees administering and supervising the operation of table games, slot machines, simulcast counter, keno booths, cashiers' cage and satellite cages, working with a succeeding or preceding group of employees.
"Simulcast handle" means the total value of currency, coin, gaming chips, slot tokens, and coupons wagered by patrons on a simulcast horse race, less the total value of canceled or refunded tickets.
"Slot drop container" means a slot cash storage box, slot drop bucket, and/or slot drop box.
"Slot machine drop" means the total value of coins, slot tokens, and foreign slot tokens in a slot drop bucket or a slot drop box, the currency, gaming vouchers and coupons in a slot cash storage box, and the electronic credits withdrawn from patron accounts including anonymous accounts.
"Slot machine master list" means a comprehensive list of the slot machines and bill changers on its casino floor in accordance with N.J.A.C. 13:69C.
"Slot machine win" means the total determined by subtracting from the slot machine drop the following: hopper fills, other than initial fills of slot machine hoppers and hopper storage areas or any subsequent increases to those initial fills, cash payouts, gaming vouchers issued by a slot machine, and electronic credits deposited to patron accounts from a slot machine.
"Stand alone progressive" means a progressive jackpot established for a single gaming device.
"Table game drop" means the total value of currency, coin, chip coupons, 50 percent of the value of table wager coupons, amounts recorded on issuance copies of Counter Checks and front money withdrawals removed from a drop box, amounts recorded on documents that evidence the exchange of gaming chips or plaques as part of credit or debit card transaction, and, if applicable, the value of electronic counter check transactions issued at a gaming table.
"Table game master list" means a comprehensive list of the table games on its casino floor.
"Table game win or loss" means the value determined by adding the amount recorded on the Closer and the amounts recorded on Credits and Uncollected Vigorish forms to the table game drop amount and by subtracting the amount recorded on the Opener, the amounts recorded on Fills, Pit Redemption Forms, and Table Game Payout Slips.
"Theoretical return to player" or "theoretical RTP" means the portion of wagers expected to be returned to patrons after a complete game cycle.
"Tokenization" means the capability of a slot machine to accept and pay out a slot token of a denomination that is greater in value than the denomination of a slot machine game contained within the slot machine.
"Wide area progressive" or "WAP" means a slot system comprised of a linked progressive established for two or more casino licensees.
"Wire transfer" means a transfer of funds by means of the Federal Reserve Bank wire system in accordance with the requirements of 12 CFR 210.25 et seq.
