Code of Massachusetts Regulations › 205 CMR - MASSACHUSETTS GAMING COMMISSION › Title 205 CMR 138.00 - Uniform Standards of Accounting Procedures and Internal Controls for Gaming › Section 138.01 - Definitions

Current through Register 1525, July 5, 2024
As used in
				205 CMR
				138.00, the following words and phrases shall have the
				following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
Annuity Jackpot
means any slot machine
				payout offered by a gaming licensee, where a patron is entitled to receive cash
				payments at specified intervals in the future.
Asset Number
means a unique number
				permanently assigned to a slot machine and a slot cash storage box for purposes
				of tracking that machine and storage box while owned by a gaming
				licensee.
Bank
is defined in M.G.L. c. 167B,
				§ 1.
Cage Supervisor
means any person who
				supervises personnel and functions within the cashiers' cage.
Cash
means currency or coin.
Cash Equivalent
means a certified
				check, cashier's check, treasurer's check, personal checks, travelers' check,
				money order, or other instrument deemed a cash equivalent by the
				commission.
Check
is defined in M.G.L. c. 106,
				§§ 3 through 104.
Chief Gaming Executive
means the
				individual employed by a gaming establishment who is responsible for the daily
				conduct of a gaming licensee's gaming business. Unless the chief gaming
				executive also serves as the chief executive officer of the gaming licensee,
				the chief gaming executive shall report directly to the chief executive officer
				of the gaming licensee.
Closer
means the original of the Table
				Inventory Slip upon which each table inventory is recorded at the end of each
				shift.
Confidential Information
means
				information related to a Sports Wagering Account, the placing of any Wager or
				any other sensitive information related to the operation of Sports Wagering
				including the amount credited to, debited from, withdrawn from, or present in
				any particular Sports Wagering Account; the amount of money Wagered by a
				particular patron on any event or series of events; the unique patron ID or
				username and authentication credentials that identify the patron; the
				identities of particular Sporting Events on which the patron is Wagering or has
				Wagered, or the location from which the patron is Wagering, has Wagered, or has
				accessed their Sports Wagering Account. Confidential Information may also
				include Personally Identifiable Information.
Debit Card Cash Transaction
means a
				transaction in which a patron obtains cash, chips, plaques, or slot tokens from
				a cashier by presenting a recognized debit card.
Derogatory Information
means issues
				that have a negative bearing on one's casino credit including such things as a
				patron credit account being partially or completely uncollectible, checks
				returned unpaid by the patron's bank, settlements, liens, judgments, other
				credit problems of the patron, or any other information provided by a gaming
				licensee's security or surveillance department.
Electronic Fund Transfer
is defined in
				M.G.L. c. 167B, § 1.
Handle
means the total value of coins,
				slot tokens, including foreign slot tokens, currency, coupons, gaming vouchers,
				and electronic credits invested by a patron to activate the play of a slot
				machine or other electronic gaming device.
Identification Credential
means
				government issued photo identification which contains the person's
				signature.
Imprest
means the basis on which
				cashiers' cage and slot booth funds are replenished from time to time in
				exactly the value of the net of expenditures made from the funds and value
				received. Incompatible function means a function that places any person or
				department in a position to both perpetrate and conceal errors or
				irregularities in the normal course of their duties. For example, anyone
				recording transactions and having access to assets ordinarily would be
				considered to be in a position to perpetrate errors or irregularities. Persons
				may have incompatible functions if such persons are members of departments
				which have supervisors not independent of each other.
Master Game Report
means a record of
				the computation of the win or loss or, for the game of poker, the poker
				revenue, for each gaming table, each game, and each gaming day.
Multi-State Jackpot
means any
				progressive slot machine jackpot offered by one or more gaming licensees in
				conjunction with a licensee from another jurisdiction pursuant to a multi-state
				progressive slot system agreement.
Opener
means the duplicate copy of the
				table inventory slip upon which each table inventory is recorded at the end of
				each shift and serves as the record of each table inventory at the beginning of
				the next succeeding shift.
Outstanding Patron Check
means any
				Counter Check or replacement check that is not due for deposit or presentation
				pursuant to
				205
				CMR 138.45 and has not in fact been deposited
				or presented for payment or redeemed by the drawer.
Patron Check
means a Counter Check or
				a replacement check.
Patron Deposit
means the total value
				of cash, cash equivalents, complimentary cash gifts, slot tokens, prize tokens,
				gaming chips or plaques deposited with a gaming licensee by a patron for his or
				her subsequent use pursuant to
				205
				CMR 138.40.
Personally Identifiable Information
means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable
				of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or
				indirectly, with a particular patron, individual or household. Personally
				Identifiable Information includes, but is not limited to, Personal Information
				as that phrase is defined in M.G.L. c. 93H and
				201 CMR
				17.00:
Standards for the Protection of
				Personal Information of Residents of the Commonwealth
. Personally
				Identifiable Information may also include Confidential Information.
Poker Revenue
means the total value of
				rake charged to patrons at all poker tables pursuant to 205 CMR.
Replacement Check
means a counter
				check which replaces one or more previously issued counter checks.
Slot Drop Container
shall include slot
				drop buckets, slot drop boxes and slot cash storage boxes.
Slot Machine Drop
means the total
				value of coins, slot tokens, and foreign slot tokens in a slot drop bucket or a
				slot drop box, the total value of currency, gaming vouchers and coupons in a
				slot cash storage box, and the total value of electronic credits withdrawn from
				patron accounts, if applicable.
Slot Machine Win
means the value of
				the drop less any jackpots paid less any change to the hopper inventory.
Supervisor
means a key gaming employee
				or gaming employee employed in the operation of a gaming establishment in a
				supervisory capacity or empowered to make discretionary decisions which
				regulate gaming operations, including but not limited to, boxpersons,
				floorpersons, pit bosses, poker shift supervisors, table games shift managers,
				the gaming manager, and the assistant gaming manager.
Suspicious Gaming Voucher
means any
				gaming voucher that appears to have been counterfeited, tampered with or
				altered in any way that would affect its integrity, suitability, validity or
				value.
Table Game Drop
means the sum of the
				total value of currency, coin, or coupons deposited in the drop box at a gaming
				table.
Table Game
win or loss means the
				amount of table game drop minus the change in the tables chip inventory,
				including chips issued during fills and chips removed during credits for tables
				other than poker tables.
Third Party Check
means a check
				endorsed by its payee to another party who becomes the holder in due
				course.
Unscanned Gaming Voucher
means any
				gaming voucher that a gaming licensee elects to redeem when its gaming voucher
				system or any component thereof is inoperable and, as a result, the system is
				unable to determine the validity of the voucher.
Unsecured Currency, Unsecured Gaming Voucher,
				Unsecured Ticket, and Unsecured Coupon
means currency, a voucher,
				ticket, or coupon found inside a bill changer but outside a bill validator
				box.
Unverified Gaming Voucher
means any
				gaming voucher, other than a suspicious gaming voucher, that the gaming voucher
				system fails to verify and electronically cancel in the system when it is
				presented for redemption and scanned.
Wire Transfer
means a transfer of
				funds through Fedwire Funds Service as governed by 12 CFR Part 210 , Subpart B
				-
Funds Transfers Through Fedwire
.