California Code of Regulations › Title 4 - Business Regulations › Division 18 - California Gambling Control Commission › Chapter 7 - Conditions of Operation for Gambling Establishments › Article 3 - Minimum Internal Control Standards (MICS) for Cardroom Business Licensees › Section 12385 - Count; Count Room Functions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) The
				  policies and procedures for all Tiers must meet or exceed the following
				  standards for count room functions:
(1) The
				  cardroom business licensee must ensure that the contents of drop boxes are
				  counted and recorded in a manner and in a location within the licensed gambling
				  establishment that ensures the appropriate security and proper accounting of
				  all gambling chips.
(2) The
				  cardroom business licensee must designate an individual or individuals, each
				  holding a valid cardroom category license, who must be responsible for
				  performing the drop count. The opening, counting and recording of the contents
				  of a drop box must be performed in the presence of and by the designated
				  individual(s).
(3)
(A) Drop box counts must be permanently
				  recorded, in ink or another form approved by the cardroom business licensee, on
				  a daily count sheet or the equivalent, which documents all of the following
				  information, as applicable:
1. The name of
				  the gambling establishment;
2. The
				  date and time of the count;
3. The
				  shift, individual box number and table number of each box counted;
4. The amount in each individual
				  box;
5. The total number of boxes
				  counted; and
6. The printed or
				  recorded name(s) of the individual(s) conducting the count and, if a hard copy
				  record, the signature(s) of the individual(s).
(B) Corrections to the information initially
				  recorded for the drop count prior to the completion and signing of a hard copy
				  daily count sheet are permitted. Corrections must be made by drawing a single
				  line through the error and writing the correct figures above the original
				  figures or by another method approved by the Bureau. The designated individual
				  making the correction must write his or her initials and the date, in ink,
				  immediately next to the correct figures. The correction, in a hard copy of a
				  daily count sheet, of errors discovered subsequent to the completion and
				  signing by the designated individual(s) will require the completion of a
				  revised or amended count sheet, which must be maintained with the original
				  count sheet.
(4) The
				  entire count process, beginning with the opening of the first drop box and
				  continuing through completion of the count sheet, must be continuously recorded
				  by video surveillance.
(5) The
				  contents of a drop box may not be mixed or commingled with the contents of any
				  other drop box prior to the counting and recording of its contents.
(6) A drop box must be emptied in a manner
				  that will identify and record the box identification, as specified in Section
				  12384, subsection (a), paragraph
				  (3), subparagraph (C), and paragraph (4), and so that video surveillance
				  recording will document that all contents are removed from the drop box for the
				  count.