Ohio Administrative Code
Title 3772 - Casino Control Commission
Chapter 3772-74 - Fantasy Contests
Section 3772-74-10 - Fantasy contest operator internal procedures

(a) The national council on problem gambling's twenty-four hour confidential helpline, the problem gambling hotline number established under section 3772.062 of the Revised Code, or another helpline approved by the executive director that is free of charge to the fantasy contest player; and

(b) Educational information from a reputable mental health or addiction services organization on identifying, monitoring, and managing compulsive behavior, including information for individuals assisting a person in doing so;

(a) Fantasy contest operator employees, relatives living in the same household as those employees, and athletes, coaches, referees, and other participants in the underlying professional sports competitions from competing in any public fantasy contest offered by a fantasy contest operator; and

(b) Anyone from sharing material nonpublic information gained from a fantasy contest operator with third parties;

(a) Individuals under eighteen years of age;

(b) Individuals who, upon request, seek to restrict themselves from entering fantasy contests; and

(c) Fantasy contest players who have been permanently barred or whose accounts have been suspended by the operator for violating a fantasy contest operator's internal procedures, the rules or terms of a fantasy contest, or fantasy contest law, applicable to the fantasy contest player;

(a) Deposit cash and cash equivalent prizes won from fantasy contests into a fantasy contest player's account;

(b) Fund withdrawal requests from a fantasy contest player's account, unless the fantasy contest operator believes in good faith that the fantasy contest player engaged in either fraudulent conduct or other conduct that would put the operator in violation of fantasy contest operator's internal procedures, the rules or terms of the fantasy contest, fantasy contest law, or other legal requirements. In which case, the operator may decline to honor the request for withdrawal for a reasonable investigatory period until its investigation is resolved. For purposes of this provision, a request for withdrawal will be considered honored if it is processed by the operator but delayed by a payment processor, credit card issuer, or by the custodian of a financial account; and

(c) Requests to close a fantasy contest player's account;

(a) The definitions of a beginning player and a highly experienced player;

(b) The method by which fantasy contests operators will clearly and conspicuously identify highly experienced players in fantasy contests;

(c) How the fantasy contest operator will offer some fantasy contests open only to beginning players; and

(d) The process by which fantasy contest operators will offer introductory procedures for fantasy contests for beginning players, which shall:

(a) All notifications or restrictions offered to players, which shall include complete exclusion and may include contest entry, entry fee, and deposit limits, among other notifications or restrictions;

(b) How fantasy contest players may request a notification or restriction;

(c) How fantasy contest operators will clearly and conspicuously make the program available to fantasy contest players;

(d) How fantasy contest players may request to have their selected notification or restriction adjusted or removed, including allowing them to have the option to adjust these notifications or restrictions to make them more restrictive as often as they like but not allowing them to have the option to remove or make notifications or restrictions less restrictive within 90 days of setting the notification or restriction at issue;

(e) How the fantasy contest operator will keep the name and other personal information of those participating in the program confidential. Nothing in this provision restricts operators from sharing this information with each other for the sole purpose of operating joint voluntary restriction programs;

(f) The duties of the fantasy contest players enrolled in the voluntary restriction program; and

(g) The duties of the fantasy contest operator with respect to the program, including how the operator will identify and prevent those on the program from participating in fantasy contests in violation of the selected restriction or being targeted by the operator's advertisements;