Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 44, November 2, 2024
(a) An establishment licensee shall train its
employees and establish procedures to do all of the following:
(1) Identify a video gaming self-excluded
person when present in the video gaming area and, upon identification,
immediately notify employees of the establishment licensee whose duties include
the removal of video gaming self-excluded persons.
(2) Deny video gaming related activities to a
video gaming self-excluded person.
(3) Ensure that video gaming self-excluded
persons do not receive, either from the video gaming establishment licensee or
any agent thereof, targeted advertisements of video gaming activities at its
premises.
(4) Notify the
Pennsylvania State Police and the Bureau of the presence of a video gaming
self-excluded person in the video gaming area.
(5) Prepare a report of the presence of a
video gaming self-excluded person in a video gaming area on a form provided by
the Board and to submit that completed form to the OCPG and the Bureau within
24 hours for each occurrence of a video gaming self-excluded person being
present in a video gaming area, which may be submitted by the terminal
operator.
(6) Make available to
patrons written materials provided by the OCPG explaining the video gaming
self-exclusion program.
(b) The list of video gaming self-excluded
persons is confidential, and any distribution of the list to an unauthorized
source constitutes a violation of 4 Pa.C.S. Part III (relating to video
gaming).
(c) Under section 3903 of
the act (relating to self-exclusion), establishment licensees and employees
thereof may not be liable for damages in any civil action, which is based on
the following:
(1) Failure to withhold video
gaming privileges from or restore video gaming privileges to a video gaming
self-excluded person.
(2)
Permitting or not permitting a video gaming self-excluded person to
gamble.
(3) Good faith disclosure
of the identity of a video gaming self-excluded person to someone, other than
those authorized by this chapter, for the purpose of complying with this
chapter.
(d) An
establishment licensee shall report the discovery of a video gaming
self-excluded person that did or attempted to engage in video gaming related
activities to the director of the OCPG within 24 hours.
