Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 44, November 2, 2024
(a)
A licensed facility shall have, immediately adjacent or proximate to the gaming
floor, a physical structure known as a cage to house the cashiers and to serve
as the central location in the licensed facility for:
(1) The custody of the cage inventory
comprised of cash (currency or coin), gaming chips, plaques and the forms,
documents and records normally associated with the operation of a
cage.
(2) The functions normally
associated with the operation of a cage.
(b) The supervisor of the cage shall,
regardless of shift, be permitted as a gaming employee.
(c) The cage must be designed and constructed
to provide maximum security for the materials housed therein and the activities
performed therein. Its design and construction must include:
(1) Manually triggered silent alarm systems
located at the cashiers' window, vault and in ancillary office space adjacent
or proximate thereto. The systems must be connected directly to the monitoring
room of the surveillance department and to the security department.
(2) A double door entry and exit system that
will not permit an individual to pass through the second door until the first
door is securely locked. In addition, the following apply:
(i) The first door leading from the gaming
floor of the double door entry and exit system must be controlled by the
security department or the surveillance department.
(ii) The second door of the double door entry
and exit system must be controlled by the cage, security department or the
surveillance department, provided that the first and second door may not be
controlled by the same department.
(iii) The double door entry and exit system
must have surveillance coverage which shall be monitored by the surveillance
department.
(iv) An entrance to the
cage that is not a double door entry and exit system must be an alarmed
emergency exit door only.
(3) If manual locks are used to secure each
door of the double door entry and exit system, the keys to each door must be
different from each other.
(4) A
slot machine licensee may use a Board-approved computerized access system to
meet the double door entry system requirements in paragraph (2) if:
(i) The computerized access system provides a
functionally equivalent level of security.
(ii) The slot machine licensee includes
provisions in the slot machine licensee's internal controls which will provide
a functionally equivalent level of security when the computerized access system
is not functioning.
(d) A licensed facility may also have one or
more satellite cages separate and apart from the main cage established to
maximize security, efficient operations or patron convenience. A satellite cage
may perform all of the functions of the main cage and must be equipped with an
alarm system in compliance with subsection (c)(1). The functions which are
conducted in a satellite cage shall be subject to the accounting controls
applicable to a main cage set forth in this subpart.
(e) A slot machine licensee shall maintain,
immediately available to the Board and the Pennsylvania State Police, a current
list, with Board credential numbers, of all persons:
(1) Possessing the combination or keys to the
locks securing the double door entry and exit system restricting access to the
main cage and any satellite cage and the vault.
(2) Possessing the ability to activate or
deactivate alarm systems for the main cage, any satellite cage and
vault.
The provisions of this § 465a.15 amended under
4
Pa.C.S. §§
1202(b)(30),
1207,
1321,
1322, 13A 02(1)-(6) and
13A25.
