Illinois Administrative Code › Title 11 - ALCOHOL, HORSE RACING, LOTTERY, AND VIDEO GAMING › Part 1800 - VIDEO GAMING (GENERAL) › Subpart C - STANDARDS OF CONDUCT FOR LICENSEES › Section 1800.310 - Grounds for Disciplinary Actions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) Holders of any license issued under the
				Act and identified persons with significant influence or control shall be
				subject to imposition of fines, suspension, revocation or restriction of
				license, or other disciplinary action for any act or failure to act by
				themselves or by their agents or employees that is injurious to the public
				health, safety, morals, good order and general welfare of the people of the
				State of Illinois, or that would discredit or tend to discredit the Illinois
				video gaming industry or the State of Illinois. Without limiting the provisions
				of this subsection (a), the following acts or omissions may be grounds for
				discipline:
1) Failing to comply with or make
				provision for compliance with the Act, this Part, any federal, State or local
				law or regulation, or a control system or protocol mandated by the
				Board;
2) Failing to comply with
				any order or ruling of the Board or its agents pertaining to the regulation of
				video gaming in Illinois;
3)
				Receiving goods or services from a licensee or other person in violation of the
				Act's licensing requirements, or in violation of any restriction, condition or
				prohibition of a license;
4) Being
				suspended or ruled ineligible or having a license revoked or suspended in any
				state or gaming or video gaming jurisdiction;
5) Employing, associating with, or
				participating in any enterprise or business with a documented or identifiable
				organized crime group or recognized organized crime figure;
6) Employing, associating with, or
				participating in any enterprise or business with persons of notorious or
				unsavory reputation or who have extensive police records, or who have failed to
				cooperate with any officially constituted investigatory or administrative
				body;
7) Failing to establish and
				maintain standards and procedures designed to prevent ineligible or unsuitable
				persons from being employed by the licensee, including any person known to have
				been found guilty of cheating or using any improper device in connection with
				any game or gaming device regulated under the Act or under the law of any
				gaming jurisdiction;
8)
				Misrepresenting any information to the Board;
9) Intentionally making, causing to be made,
				or aiding, assisting, or procuring another to make any false statement in any
				report, disclosure, application, permit, form, or any other document, including
				improperly notarized documents, required by the Act, this Part or Board
				requirements;
10) Submitting tardy,
				inaccurate, or incomplete material or information to the Board;
11) Obstructing or impeding the lawful
				activities of the Board or its agents;
12) Willfully or repeatedly failing to pay
				amounts due or to be remitted to the State;
13) Failing to timely pay amounts due or to
				be remitted to the State;
14)
				Failing to timely pay a fine imposed by the Board;
15) Failing to respond in a timely manner to
				communications from the Board;
16)
				Being unavailable to the Board or its representatives or agents;
17) Aiding and abetting a violation by a
				Board member or employee, or other government official, of a requirement
				established by statute, resolution, ordinance, personnel code or code of
				conduct;
18) Violation of the Act
				or this Part by any person identified as a person with significant influence or
				control;
19) Employing, associating
				with, or participating in any enterprise or business with a person determined
				unsuitable to be a person with significant influence or control over an
				applicant or licensee by the Board or any other gaming jurisdiction;
20) Facilitating, enabling or participating
				in the use of coin-operated amusement devices for gambling purposes on or after
				December 16, 2009;
21) Engaging in,
				or facilitating, any unfair methods of competition or unfair or deceptive acts
				or practices, including, but not limited to, the use or employment of any
				deception, fraud, false pretense, false promise or misrepresentation, or the
				concealment, suppression or omission of any material fact in the conduct of any
				video gaming operation;
22) Failing
				to maintain minimum qualifications for licensure; and
23) Any cause that, if known to the Board,
				would have disqualified the applicant from receiving a license.