Florida Administrative Code › 75 - FLORIDA GAMING CONTROL COMMISSION › 75 - Departmental › Chapter 75-14 - PARI-MUTUEL WAGERING FACILITY SLOT MACHINE OPERATIONS › Section 75-14.001 - General Definitions

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in these rules,
				  shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
(1) "Affiliate" or
				"affiliated" means person(s) one of whom directly or indirectly has the power
				to control the other, or persons who are both controlled by a third
				party.
(2) "Asset number" means a
				unique number permanently affixed to a slot machine or a slot cash storage box
				by a slot machine licensee for purposes of tracking that slot machine or
				storage box.
(3) "Bill" means a
				piece of United States paper currency.
(4) "Credit" means a unit of entitlement for
				play of a slot machine game created by the conversion of bills, tickets, or
				vouchers when inserted into a slot machine.
(5) "Currency" means the money of the United
				States that is designated as legal tender.
(6) "Custodian of Records" means the officer,
				director or employee of the slot machine who is designated as the employee
				responsible for records regarding the departments referenced in Rule
				 75-14.015, F.A.C. The custodian
				of records shall be responsible for the maintenance of all records of the
				department for which he or she is delegated responsibility.
(7) "Drop" means the total amount of bills,
				tickets, and vouchers received by a slot machine or collected by a device that
				collects such items.
(8) "EPROM"
				means erasable programmable read only memory of a slot machine.
(9) "Facility Based Monitoring System" means
				a central site computer system that shall be accessible by the division and
				FDLE to which all slot machines at a gaming facility communicate for the
				purpose of auditing capacity, real-time information retrieval of the details of
				any financial event that occurs in the operation of a slot machine facility,
				door openings and closings, power failure, and disabling of slot
				machines.
(10) "F.A.C." means the
				Florida Administrative Code.
(11)
				"FDLE" means the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
(12) "Gaming day" means the time period the
				slot machine gaming areas of a slot machine licensee are open pursuant to
				Section  551.116, F.S., and used by any
				slot machine licensee for accounting and business reporting purposes.
(13) "Jackpot" means any money, merchandise
				or thing of value to be paid to a patron as the result of a specific
				combination(s) of characters displayed on a slot machine that the slot machine
				is not capable to automatically pay out.
(14) "Local Area Progressive, " also referred
				to as "LAP, " means a progressive system located within the same licensed
				facility within this state.
(15)
				"Play" means the making of a slot machine wager or the use of a free play award
				in lieu of a wager, the activation of the slot machine game by the patron, and
				an indication to the patron of the outcome of the wager.
(16) "Program Storage Media" includes hard
				drives, card flash, USB, SIMM cards, SATA, and EPROMs.
(17) "Server Based Gaming Systems, " also
				referred to as "SBGS, " is the combination of server and client terminals in
				which the entire or integral portion of the game content resides on the server,
				and the system works collectively in such a fashion that the client terminal
				will not be capable of functioning when disconnected from the server or
				system.
(18) "Server Supported Game
				System, " also referred to as "SSGS, " is the combination of server and client
				terminals which together allow the transfer of the entire control program and
				the game content to the client terminals for the purpose of downloading control
				programs and game content on an intermittent basis, which client terminals are
				connected to the system and are capable of operations independently from the
				system once the downloading process is completed. This configuration
				encompasses cases where the system may take control of peripheral devices or
				associated equipment typically considered part of a conventional client
				terminal such as a bill validator or a printer. In a system supported game, the
				game outcome is determined by the client terminals connected to the system and
				not by the system itself, and the client terminal is capable of functioning if
				disconnected from the system.
(19)
				"Slot cash storage box" is a tamper-resistant container, used in slot machine
				gaming that provides storage for bills, tickets, and vouchers accepted by a
				device such as a slot machine or automated ticket redemption machine.
(20) "Ticket" means a receipt printed by a
				slot machine or ticket issuing machine used for slot machine play or redeemed
				by the slot machine licensee.
(21)
				"Voucher" means a receipt for cash or property which is issued at a cashier's
				cage and that is inserted into a slot machine to initiate play.
(22) "Wide Area Progressive, " also referred
				to as "WAP, " means a progressive system located in more than one licensed
				facility within this state or other jurisdictions.
Rulemaking Authority
					 551.103(1),
					 551.122 FS. Law Implemented
					 551.103(1)(a), (b), (d), (e), (g),
					 (i),
					 551.104(4)
					 FS.
New 6-25-06, Amended 12-6-06, 5-30-17, Formerly
					  61D-14.001.