Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 006 - Department of Finance and Administration › Division 06 - Racing Commission › Rule 006.06.19-024 - CGR 24 Off-Track Pari-Mutuel Horse Race Account Wagering

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
24.005
Scope.
These Rules govern all off-track pari-mutuel horse race
			 account wagering in Arkansas for which a license or approval has been granted
			 by the Commission pursuant to Amendment 100. No wagers may be accepted from
			 persons not physically present on the premises of the Licensee, franchise
			 holder or book unless the wager is made pursuant to Ark. Code Ann. §
								23-110-405(e)(1)
			 or Ark. Code Ann. §
								23-111-508(e)(1).
24.010
Definitions.
As used in
			 this Rule:
1. "Account wagering system" means
			 a system of wagering using telephone, computer or other method of wagering
			 communication as approved by the Commission, whose components shall be located
			 in this State. The components shall include, but not be limited to, the systems
			 operator, permanent information databases, system monitoring equipment,
			 writers, and patron service representatives.
2. "Book" or "race book" means a business
			 that accepts wagers on horse or other animal races. A casino licensee that is
			 also a franchise holder may elect to have its race book operations relating to
			 pari-mutuel wagering on horse and greyhound racing regulated and governed by
			 the Arkansas Horse Racing Law at Ark. Code Ann. §
									23-110-101, et
			 seq., or the Arkansas Greyhound Racing Law at Ark. Code Ann. §
									23-111-101, et
			 seq., respectively, and rules promulgated by the Commission thereunder and not
			 by these Rules.
3. "Call center
			 system" means a computerized system, or a component of such a system, that is
			 used to receive and transmit pari-mutuel race wagering instructions from a
			 patron to a person licensed to accept off-track pari-mutuel race wagers. The
			 call center system is located within Arkansas but off the premises of a
			 licensed gaming establishment or any affiliated licensed gaming
			 establishment.
4. "Central site
			 book" means a book which, for the purpose of wagering communications, may allow
			 other licensed affiliated books to establish wagering or credit accounts,
			 accept deposits on accounts and return funds or close out accounts for the
			 central site. Such other licensed books:
(a)
			 Must be outstation or satellite books of the central site, as defined in this
			 Rule, or must be affiliates of the central site; and
(b) Must have on-line, real-time access to
			 the appropriate functions of the central site's off-track pari-mutuel race
			 system.
5. "Commission"
			 means the Arkansas Racing Commission or the Commission's designee.
6. "Communications technology" means the
			 methods used and the components employed to facilitate the transmission of
			 information including, but not limited to, transmission and reception systems
			 based on wire, cable, radio, microwave, light, optics, or computer data
			 networks. The Internet is a Communications technology only for the purposes of
			 off-track pari-mutuel race wagering.
7. "Internet" means the international
			 computer network of both Federal and non-Federal interoperable packet switched
			 data networks.
8. "Key employee"
			 means an employee in any of the classes described in these Rules.
9. "Messenger bettor" means a person who
			 places a wager for the benefit of another for compensation.
10. "Operator of a call center" means a
			 person who, as an agent of a licensed Arkansas pari-mutuel race book, engages
			 in the business of operating a call center system as a means of providing
			 patron services to assist a patron located in a state or foreign jurisdiction
			 where such wagering is legal, to convey pari-mutuel horse race wagering
			 instructions to one or more licensed Arkansas pari-mutuel race books. A
			 Arkansas pari-mutuel race book operating a call center on the premises of their
			 gaming establishment or any affiliated licensed gaming establishment, with
			 participation limited to affiliated licensed gaming establishments, is not an
			 operator of a call center.
11.
			 "Outstation book" means a book, other than a satellite book, that shares the
			 off-track pari-mutuel race system and certain management or administrative
			 functions of a book operated by an affiliated licensee.
12. "Post time" means, unless an earlier time
			 is required by regulation in the state where the race is run, the time when the
			 race is started by, as applicable, the opening of the gates and/or box, the
			 starting gate car begins to close its arms, or such other method used by the
			 track and administratively approved by the Commission.
13. "Satellite book" means a book that has
			 been licensed.
14. "Secure personal
			 identification" means a secure personal identification as that term is defined
			 in these Rules.
15. "Wagering
			 account" means a wagering account as that term is defined in these
			 Rules.
16. "Wagering communication"
			 means the transmission of a wager between a point of origin and a point of
			 reception by aid of a communications technology.
17. "Wagering instructions" means the
			 instructions given to an operator of a call center by a patron who maintains a
			 wagering account at a book to effect a wagering communication to the
			 book.