Illinois Administrative Code › Title 86 - REVENUE › Part 3000 - RIVERBOAT AND CASINO GAMBLING › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 3000.100 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
For purposes of this Part the following terms shall have the
				  following meanings:
"Act": The Illinois Gambling Act [230 ILCS 10
				  ].
"Adjusted Gross Receipts": The gross receipts less winnings
				  paid to wagerers. The value of expired vouchers shall be included in computing
				  adjusted gross receipts.
"Affiliate": An "Affiliate of", or person "Affiliated with",
				  a specified person shall mean a person that directly, or indirectly through one
				  or more intermediaries, controls, or is controlled by, or is under common
				  control with, such person.
"Alcoholic Liquors": Includes alcohol, spirits, wine and
				  beer, and every liquid or solid, patented or not, containing alcohol, spirits,
				  wine or beer, and capable of being consumed as a beverage by a human
				  being.
"Attributed Interest": A direct or indirect interest in a
				  Business Entity deemed to be held by a person not through the person's actual
				  holdings but either through the holdings of the person's relatives or through a
				  third party or parties on behalf of the person pursuant to a plan, arrangement
				  or agreement.
"Bill Validator": Any electro-mechanical device attached
				  either on or into an Electronic Gaming Device which accepts and analyzes the
				  legitimacy of United States currency and/or Vouchers, validates the currency
				  and/or Vouchers, stores the currency and/or Vouchers, and issues Electronic
				  Credits equal to the value of currency and/or Vouchers inserted into the
				  device.
"Board": The Illinois Gaming Board.
"Business Entity": A partnership, incorporated or
				  unincorporated association or group, firm, corporation, limited liability
				  company, partnership for shares, trust, sole proprietorship or other business
				  enterprise.
"Chip": A non-metal or partly metal representative of value,
				  redeemable for cash, and issued and sold by a holder of an owners license or
				  organization gaming license for use in Gaming other than in Electronic Gaming
				  Devices on that holder's Gaming Operation.
"Chip Float": The difference between the total face value of
				  Chips received from vendors and the total face value of Chips accounted for
				  through an inventory conducted by the Gaming Operation.
"Computer Monitoring System": The gaming related system used
				  to provide on-line, real-time monitoring of Electronic Gaming Devices and data
				  acquisition capability in the format and media approved by the
				  Administrator.
"Dependent": Any individual who received over half of the
				  individual's support in a calendar year from any other individual.
"Electronic Card": A card purchased from a holder of an
				  owners license or organization gaming license for use at that holder's Gaming
				  Operation as a substitute for Tokens in the conduct of gaming on an Electronic
				  Gaming Device.
"Electronic Credit": A value owed to a patron on an
				  Electronic Gaming Device.
"Electronic Gaming Device" or "EGD": Includes as approved
				  Games under Section 3000.605 Single- and
				  Multiple-Position Reel-Type, Single- and Multiple-Position Single-Game Video
				  and Single- and Multiple-Position Multi-Game Video Electronic Gaming
				  Devices.
"Electronic Gaming Device Drop": The total face value of
				  Tokens or representations of Tokens (including without limitation foreign
				  Tokens and slugs) collected from the drop bucket and United States currency
				  and/or Vouchers collected from the Bill Validator drop box.
"Electronic Gaming Device Win": The Electronic Gaming Device
				  Drop minus hand-paid jackpots minus hopper fills minus Vouchers issued.
"EPROM": An acronym for Erasable, Programmable, Read Only
				  Memory, which is a microprocessor component that stores memory and affects
				  payout percentage and/or contains a random number generator that selects the
				  outcome of a Game on an Electronic Gaming Device.
"Excluded Person": Any person whose name appears on any
				  Exclusion List, or any person whose name does not appear on an Exclusion List
				  but who is excluded or ejected pursuant to Section 5(c)(12) of the Act or as a
				  result of meeting one or more of the criteria in Section
				  3000.720 of this Part.
"Exclusion List": A list or lists which contain the
				  identities of persons who are to be excluded or ejected from any licensed
				  Gaming operation in any jurisdiction. The list may include any person whose
				  reputation or conduct is such that the person's presence within a Gaming
				  Operation may, in the opinion of the Board or the Administrator, call into
				  question the honesty or integrity of the Gaming Operation or pose a threat to
				  the interests of the State of Illinois.
"Expiration Date": The one-year period, starting on the day
				  of issuance, during which Vouchers may be redeemed for United States currency
				  at a cashier cage of a Gaming Operation.
"Game": A gambling activity which is played for money,
				  property, or anything of value, including without limitation those played with
				  cards, Chips, Tokens, dice, implements, or electronic, electrical, or
				  mechanical devices or machines.
"Gaming": The dealing, operating, carrying on, conducting,
				  maintaining or exposing for play of any Game.
"Gaming Equipment/Supplies": A machine, mechanism, device, or
				  implement which is integral to the operation of a Game or affects the result of
				  a Game by determining win or loss, including without limitation: electronic,
				  electrical, or mechanical devices or machines; cards or dice; layouts for Live
				  Gaming Devices; any representative of value used with any Game, including
				  without limitation Chips, Tokens, or Electronic Cards; Voucher Systems; Voucher
				  Printers; Voucher Validation Terminals; Computer Monitoring Systems; and
				  hardware and software related to any item described in this Part.
"Gaming Operation": The owners licensee, organization gaming
				  licensee or, as the context requires, the conducting of gaming and all related
				  activities, including without limitation the purveying of food, beverages,
				  retail goods and services, and transportation, at a casino, an organization
				  gaming facility or on a Riverboat and at its Support Facilities.
"Gaming Operations Manager": A person or business entity
				  other than the holder of an owners license or organization gaming license who
				  has the ultimate responsibility to manage, direct or administer the conducting
				  of Gaming.
"
Gaming Station": Each individual portion of any
				  Electronic Gaming Device where a patron can engage in wagering, characterized
				  by at least one of the following features: an interactive display or controls,
				  a bill acceptor, a voucher printer, or a means for tracking credits available
				  to be wagered by the patron.
"Hand": Either one Game in a series, one deal in a card Game,
				  or the cards held by a player.
"Indirect Interest": An interest in a Business Entity that is
				  deemed to be held by the holder of an owners license or organization gaming
				  license not through the holder's actual holdings in the business entity but
				  through the holder's holdings in other business entities.
"Institutional Investor": A "qualified institutional buyer"
				  as defined by Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 144A (17 CFR
				  230.144A) under the Securities Act of 1933
				  (15 U.S.C.
				  77a).
"Internal Control System": Proprietary internal procedures
				  and administration and accounting controls designed by the holder of an owners
				  license or organization gaming license for the purpose of exercising control
				  over the Gaming Operation.
"Junketeer": A person or entity that facilitates a patron's
				  participation in gaming at a Gaming Operation and is compensated, not as an
				  employee but as an independent contractor, by that Operation based upon how
				  much the patron actually wagers or loses.
"Key Person": A Person identified by the Board under Section
				  3000.222 as subject to
				  regulatory approval as a Person able to control, or exercise significant
				  influence over, the management, assets, or operating policies of an owners,
				  organization gaming or supplier licensee.
"Live Gaming Device": Any apparatus, other than an Electronic
				  Gaming Device, upon which Gaming is conducted or which determines an outcome
				  which is the object of a wager. This definition includes but is not limited to
				  roulette wheels, keno machines, punchboard tickets and tables with layouts
				  utilized in Games approved by the Board.
"Marketing Agent": A person or entity, other than a junketeer
				  or an employee of a Gaming Operation, who is compensated by the Gaming
				  Operation in excess of $100 per patron per trip for identifying and recruiting
				  patrons.
"Non-Alterable Storage Media": An electronic storage medium
				  that contains the program files that operate the game, which medium cannot be
				  altered through the use of the circuitry or programming of the gaming
				  device.
"Non-Value Chip": A Chip, clearly and permanently impressed,
				  engraved or imprinted with the name of the Gaming Operation, but bearing no
				  value designation.
"Notice of Board Action": A Notice of Denial, Restriction,
				  Suspension, Revocation, Nonrenewal, Fine, Exclusion or other action issued by
				  the Board.
"Organization Gaming Facility": That portion of an
				  organization licensee's racetrack facilities at which gaming authorized under
				  Section 7.7 of the Act is conducted,
				  including both the publicly accessible gaming area and restricted access areas,
				  including but not limited to cashier cages, count rooms, surveillance rooms,
				  and gaming equipment storage and repair areas.
"Parent Company": A "parent company" of a specified person is
				  an affiliate controlling such person directly, or indirectly through one or
				  more intermediaries.
"Payout": Winnings earned on a wager.
"Person": includes both individuals and Business
				  Entities.
"Petitioner": An applicant, licensee or Excluded Person who
				  requests a hearing upon issuance of a Notice of Board Action.
"Progressive Controller": The hardware and software that
				  controls all communications among the machines within a progressive Electronic
				  Gaming Device link and its associated progressive meter.
"Progressive Jackpot": An award for winning play in a Game,
				  the value of which is determined by the contribution of a portion of each Wager
				  placed into play or the combined amount of several wagers linked to a common
				  jackpot award.
"Redemption Period": The 120-day period during which a
				  Voucher may be used to acquire electronic credits from an Electronic Gaming
				  Device or to obtain United States currency from a Voucher Validation Terminal.
				  After their Redemption dates and prior to their Expiration dates, Vouchers may
				  be redeemed for United States currency only at a cashier cage of a Gaming
				  Operation.
"Relative": Spouse, parents, grandparents, children,
				  siblings, uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, fathers-in-law, mothers-in-law,
				  sons-in-law, daughters-in-law, brothers-in-law, and sisters-in-law, whether by
				  the whole or half blood, by marriage, adoption or natural relationship, and
				  Dependents.
"Remote Access": Communication with an electronic information
				  system from a remote location or facility through a data link.
"Riverboat": A navigable vessel or a permanently moored
				  vessel comprised of one or more barges that are permanently attached to operate
				  as one barge. Except as appropriate by context, all references to riverboats in
				  this Part apply to casinos and organization gaming facilities as well.
"Riverboat Gaming Operation": The owners licensee, Gaming
				  Operations Manager, or, as the context requires, the conducting of Gaming and
				  all related activities, including without limitation the purveying of food,
				  beverages, retail goods and services, and transportation, on a Riverboat and at
				  its Support Facilities. Except as appropriate by context, all references to
				  Riverboat Gambling Operations in this Part apply to all Gaming
				  Operations.
"Signature": The definitive identity of an individual
				  specific EPROM chip or other non-alterable storage media, determined by
				  electronic analysis and reflective of the EPROM chip's game behavior
				  capability.
"Substantial Owner": A person who has an ownership interest
				  of 25% or more in a Business Entity.
"Supplier": A provider of Gaming Equipment/Supplies, Gaming
				  Equipment maintenance or repair services, security services or a lessor of a
				  Riverboat, dock, casino or organization gaming facility.
"Support Facility": A place of business that is part of, or
				  operates in conjunction with, a Gaming Operation of an owners licensee and is
				  owned in whole or in part by a holder of an owners or suppliers license or any
				  of their Key Persons, including, without limitation, Riverboats, offices,
				  docking facilities, casinos, parking facilities and land-based hotels or
				  restaurants.
"Table Drop": The total amount of cash or cash equivalents
				  contained in the drop box for Chips purchased at a Live Gaming Device.
"Table Win": The dollar amount won by the holder of an owners
				  license through play at a live Game which is the total of the Table Drop plus
				  ending Chip inventory plus credits minus opening Chip inventory minus
				  fills.
"Theoretical Payout Percentage": The percentage of Tokens or
				  Electronic Credits from amounts wagered that will be returned to players by an
				  Electronic Gaming Device.
"Token": A metal representative of value, redeemable for cash
				  only at the issuing Gaming Operation, and issued and sold by a holder of an
				  owners license or organizational gaming license for use in Gaming.
"Token Dispenser": Any mechanical or electrical device
				  designed for the purpose of dispensing an amount of Tokens equal to the amount
				  of currency inserted into the device.
"Token Float": The difference between the total face value of
				  Tokens received from vendors and the total face value of Tokens accounted for
				  through an inventory conducted by the Gaming Operation.
"Tournament EPROM": A specially designed EPROM with a mode of
				  play that provides for a mathematically demonstrable payout of more than 100
				  percent.
"Value Chip": A Chip, clearly and permanently impressed,
				  engraved or imprinted with the name of the Gaming Operation and the specific
				  value of the Chip.
"Video Game of Chance": As used in the Act, means an
				  Electronic Gaming Device.
"Voucher": A printed paper scrip representing the value in
				  United States currency stated on the face of the scrip that is:
issued by a Voucher Printer connected to an Electronic Gaming
				  Device or at a cashier cage at a Gaming Operation; and
redeemable for electronic credits or United States currency
				  and is not a coupon or other promotional item.
"Voucher Float": The difference between the total face value
				  of unexpired Vouchers issued by a Gaming Operation and the total face value of
				  Vouchers accounted for by the Gaming Operation as redeemed or expired.
"Voucher Printer": A device designed for the purpose of
				  issuing Vouchers at Electronic Gaming Devices or at a cashier cage at a Gaming
				  Operation.
"Voucher System": The hardware and software used to issue and
				  validate Vouchers, record redemptions and account for Vouchers.
"Voucher Validation Terminal": A hard-wired and interfaced
				  device that accepts Vouchers and communicates the Voucher information to the
				  Voucher System for the System to validate the information. If the System
				  confirms that the Voucher is valid, the terminal then stores the Voucher and
				  issues United States currency equal to the value of the Voucher.
"Wager": A sum of money or thing of value
				  risked.