Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 006 - Department of Finance and Administration › Division 06 - Racing Commission › Rule 006.06.21-013 - Casino Gaming Rule 20

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
RULE 20
			 RACE BOOKS AND SPORTS POOLS
20.010
Definitions.
As used in this Rule:
1. "Account wagering system" means a system
			 of wagering using computer or other method of wagering communication as
			 approved by the Commission, including mobile applications and other digital
			 platforms that utilize communications technology, 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,
			 and writers.
2. "Book" means a race
			 book or sports pool licensed and approved pursuant to Amendment 100 and this
			 Rule.
3. "Call center system" means
			 a computerized system, or a component of such a system, that is used to provide
			 technical support to a patron. A call center system shall not be used to
			 receive, transmit, or accept wagers from a patron to a licensed book.
4. "Cash" means coin and currency that
			 circulates, and is customarily used and accepted as money, in the issuing
			 nation.
5.
[Reserved]
6.
			 "Commission" means the Arkansas Racing Commission or the Commission's
			 designee.
7. "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,
			 cellular data, or computer data networks and the Internet.
8. "Internet" means the international
			 computer network of both Federal and non-Federal interoperable packet switched
			 data networks.
9. "Key employee"
			 means an employee in any of the classes described in Rule 4.
10. "Messenger bettor" means a person who
			 places a race book or sports pool wager for the benefit of another for
			 compensation.
11. "Nonpari-mutuel
			 wager" means a race book or sports pool wager other than one offered to be
			 included in a common pari-mutuel pool.
12. "Operator of a call center" means a
			 person who, as an agent of a licensed Arkansas book, engages in the business of
			 operating a call center system as a means of providing patron services to
			 assist a patron located in this state. An operator of a call center does not
			 receive, transmit, or accept wagers.
13. "Online sports pool" means an operation
			 in which wagers on sports events are made over the internet on websites or
			 mobile applications through computers, mobile devices, or other approved
			 interactive devices accepted through a gaming system approved by the
			 Commission. In order to operate an online sports pool, a casino licensee must
			 first operate and continue to operate a sports pool from the casino licensee's
			 premises. Further, operation of an online sports pool shall be prohibited in
			 circumstances in which a majority of the net casino gaming receipts, as defined
			 in Amendment 100, from the online sports pool is paid to a third-party vendor
			 assisting in the operation of the sports pool.
14. "Online sports pool platform" means an
			 integrated system of hardware, software or applications through which an online
			 sports pool operator operates, conducts, or offers an online sports
			 pool.
15. "Online sports pool
			 operator" means a casino licensee that has elected to operate an online sports
			 pool or a sports pool operator intermediary operating an online sports pool on
			 behalf of a casino licensee.
16.
			 "Payout" means the total payment due on a winning wager whether or not:
(a) The patron collects the total payment due
			 at one time;
(b) All or a portion
			 of the payment due is made in the form of cash, chips, or other form of
			 payment; or
(c) All or a portion of
			 the payment due is used by the patron to place another wager.
17. "Post time" means, unless an
			 earlier time is required by regulation in the state where the race 1st run:
(a) For users of live broadcasts and for
			 buyers of audible announcements of post time from disseminators of live
			 broadcasts, the later of either the time when the disseminator transmits an
			 audible announcement of the post time, or 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.
(b) For
			 races broadcast live on a national television network for which an agreement
			 has been reached with a disseminator to provide an audible announcement of post
			 time, that time when the disseminator relying upon information obtained
			 independently of the television broadcast, transmits an audible announcement of
			 post time which must be no later than 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.
(c) For
			 licensed race books that, pursuant to an agreement with a licensed systems
			 operator, use a computerized bookmaking system that allows the systems operator
			 to close wagering via electronic remote access, that 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, as determined by the systems
			 operator through information the systems operator independently receives from a
			 disseminator.
(d) Except as
			 provided in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this subsection, not later than 2
			 minutes before the scheduled post time as announced by the
			 disseminator.
18. "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 parimutuel 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.
19.
[Reserved]
20. "Secure
			 personal identification" means a secure personal identification as that term is
			 defined in these Rules.
21. "Sports
			 event" or "sporting event" means any professional sport or athletic event,
			 amateur sport or athletic event, collegiate sport or athletic event, or motor
			 race event. Sports events upon which wagers may be accepted under these Rules
			 shall only include athletic sports events conducted live by human athletes
			 (including race car drivers), and shall not include any virtual or simulated
			 event, or event conducted in the past and rebroadcast for wagering
			 purposes.
22. "Sports pool" means a
			 business that accepts wagers on sporting events other than horse or other
			 animal races.
23. "Wagering
			 account" means a sports wagering account as that term is defined in these
			 Rules.
24. "Wagering communication"
			 means the transmission of a wager between a point of origin and a point of
			 reception by aid of a communications technology, including computers or mobile
			 application on mobile devices or other approved interactive devices approved by
			 the Commission.
25. "Wagering
			 instructions" means the instructions given by a patron on the grounds of the
			 licensee's facility where casino gaming is conducted or who maintains a mobile
			 wagering account at a book to effect a wagering communication to the
			 book.