Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 006 - Department of Finance and Administration › Division 06 - Racing Commission › Rule 006.06.19-020 - CGR 20 Race Books and Sports Pools

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
20.010
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, 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, writers, and patron service
			 representatives.
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
			 receive and transmit wagering instructions from a patron to a licensed book.
			 The call center system is located within Arkansas but off the premises of a
			 licensed gaming establishment or any affiliated licensed gaming
			 establishment.
4. "Cash" means coin
			 and currency that circulates, and is customarily used and accepted as money, in
			 the issuing nation.
5. "Central
			 site book" means a book which, for the purpose of wagering communications, may
			 allow other licensed 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 computerized bookmaking
			 system.
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, or computer data
			 networks. The term does not include 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 these Rules.
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 to convey wagering instructions to one or
			 more licensed Arkansas books. An operator of a call center does not accept
			 wagers. A licensed Arkansas 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.
13.
			 "Outstation book" means a book, other than a satellite book, that shares the
			 computerized bookmaking system and certain management or administrative
			 functions of a book operated by an affiliated licensee.
14. "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.
15. "Post time" means, unless an earlier time
			 is required by regulation in the state where the race is 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, Licensee or franchise holder.
(d) Except as provided in these Rules, not
			 later than 2 minutes before the scheduled post time as announced by the
			 disseminator, Licensee or franchise holder.
16. "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.
17. "Satellite
			 book" means a book that has been licensed pursuant to the provisions of these
			 Rules.
18. "Secure personal
			 identification" means a secure personal identification as that term is defined
			 in these Rules.
19. "Sports pool"
			 means a business that accepts wagers on sporting events or other events, other
			 than horse or other animal races.
20. Wagering account" means a wagering
			 account as that term is defined in these Rules.
21. "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.
22. "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.