Code of Maryland Regulations › Title 36 - MARYLAND STATE LOTTERY AND GAMING CONTROL AGENCY › Subtitle 10 - SPORTS WAGERING PROVISIONS › Chapter 36.10.01 - General › Section 36.10.01.02 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 14, July 12, 2024
A. In addition
				to the terms defined in State Government Article, §§
									9-1A-01 and
				9-1E-01, Annotated
				Code of Maryland, and COMAR 36.01, 36.03, and 36.04, which have the same
				meanings in this subtitle, the following terms have the meanings
				indicated.
B. Terms Defined.
(1) "ACH" means the Automated Clearing House,
				which is a network that connects all banking and financial institutions within
				the United States.
(2) "Affiliate"
				means a person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries,
				owns, controls, is controlled by, or is under common ownership or control with
				another person.
(3) "Age and
				identity verification" means a method, system, or device used by a sports
				wagering licensee to verify the bettor's age and the bettor's
				identity.
(4) "AML" means
				Anti-Money Laundering.
(5)
				"Applicant" means a person who, as required under State Government Article,
				Title 9, Subtitle 1E, submits to the Commission an application for a license or
				for qualification or renewal of a license.
(6) "Application" means the forms,
				information, documentation, and assurances submitted by an applicant or
				licensee to obtain a license or for qualification or renewal of a
				license.
(7) "Associated equipment"
				means any equipment or mechanical, electromechanical or electronic contrivance,
				component or machine used in connection with sports wagering, including
				computerized systems for controlling and monitoring mobile sports
				wagering.
(8) "Award" means the act
				of the SWARC approving the application of an applicant that meets the
				requirements for licensure under State Government Article Title 9, Subtitle 1E,
				Annotated Code of Maryland, for a sports wagering license, which authorizes the
				Commission to issue the sports wagering license that is necessary for the
				applicant to commence sports wagering operations.
(9) "Awardee" means a qualified applicant to
				which SWARC has awarded a license.
(10) "Beneficial owner" means a person that
				holds at least a 5 percent interest in an applicant for, or holder of, a
				license awarded or issued under this subtitle, that is evidenced by:
(a) Record ownership;
(b) Stock or other ownership in an entity in
				a chain of parent and subsidiary, or affiliate entities, any one of which
				participates in the capital or profits of a sports wagering applicant or
				licensee;
(c) An interest that
				entitles a person to benefit substantially and is equivalent to ownership by an
				agreement, relationship, or other arrangement; or
(d) Compensation of a person, in any
				financial, legal, or beneficial form, if the compensation is based on revenue
				generated by a sports wagering licensee, including a percentage share on, or
				any compensation that is tied to, the performance of a sports wagering
				licensee's sports wagering operations.
(11) "Bettor" means a person who places a
				sports wager.
(12) "Books and
				records" means documents pertaining to, prepared by, or generated by a sports
				wagering licensee, regardless of the medium through which the record is
				generated or maintained, including all general ledger records, subsidiary
				records and ledgers, computer-generated data, forms, documents, internal audit
				reports and work papers, correspondence, and personnel records.
(13) "Cancelled wager" means a wager that has
				been cancelled by a sports wagering licensee due to an event or circumstance
				that prevents completion of the wager or causes the wager to be
				nonredeemable.
(14) "Cheat" or
				"cheating" means to act alone, facilitate, deceive, or conspire or collude with
				another person, to improve the chance of winning a wager or to alter the
				outcome of a wager, by:
(a) Using non-public
				information in placing, increasing, decreasing, or cancelling a
				wager;
(b) Altering or
				misrepresenting the outcome of a sporting event on which a wager has been
				placed;
(c) Claiming or collecting
				winnings on a wager that the person did not win or that the person was not
				otherwise authorized to claim or collect;
(d) Manipulating, altering, or interfering
				with sports wagering equipment, associated equipment, communication technology,
				or client software with the intent to affect or alter the outcome of a sporting
				event;
(e) Interfering with or
				influencing a participant in a sporting event with the intent to alter an
				outcome of, or an individual's performance in, a sporting event;
(f) Any conduct the Commission identifies as
				a means of conducting organized crime through sports wagering; or
(g) Any other conduct the Commission
				identifies as an abuse of the operation and administration of sports wagering
				as cheating in regulations promulgated under State Government Article, Title 9,
				Subtitles 1A or 1E, Annotated Code of Maryland.
(15) "Client software" means any software or
				application installed or operating on a bettor's device for the purpose of
				interacting with a sports wagering platform and conducting online sports
				wagering.
(16) "Communication
				technology" means the methods and components used by a sports wagering licensee
				to facilitate the transmission of information related to sports wagering,
				including a:
(a) Transmitting
				system;
(b) Receiving system;
				and
(c) Wire, cable, radio,
				microwave, optic, or computer data network.
(17) "Controlling entity" means an entity
				that possesses, directly or indirectly, the power to direct or cause the
				direction of the management and policies of a person, whether through ownership
				of voting securities, by contract, by beneficial ownership, or
				otherwise.
(18) "Data information
				center" means the physical location owned or leased by a sports wagering
				facility licensee, mobile sports wagering licensee, or online sports wagering
				licensee designated as the location where the licensee's electronic data is
				stored, processed, or otherwise maintained.
(19) "Day" means a calendar day.
(20) "Dormant account" means a sports
				wagering bettor account that has not had any login or wagering activity for a
				period of 3 years.
(21) "Electronic
				bingo" or "electronic tip jar machine" has the same meaning as "instant bingo
				machine" stated in COMAR 36.07.01.02.
(22) "Entrant" means a participant in a
				sporting event upon which a wager may be placed as to the participant's
				finishing position or performance in the sporting event.
(23) "Event number" means a set of alpha or
				numeric characters that correspond to a sporting event or an event ancillary to
				a sporting event.
(24) "Exchange
				wager" means a wager in which a bettor wagers with or against another bettor
				through a sports wagering licensee.
(25) "Excluded individual" means an
				individual who has been:
(a) Placed on the
				Commission's voluntary exclusion list under COMAR 36.01.03 and 36.10.10;
				or
(b) Placed on the Commission's
				mandatory exclusion list under 36.10.11.
(26) "Global risk management" means
				management, consultation, instruction, or transmission of information relating
				to sports wagering by a sports wagering licensee who holds a license to conduct
				sports wagering in another jurisdiction, to a sports wagering licensee in the
				State, including:
(a) Managing risks
				associated with sports wagering involving a sporting event for which a wager
				may be accepted;
(b) Setting or
				changing of available bets or wagers;
(c) Establishing cutoff times for bets or
				wagers;
(d) Accepting or rejecting
				of bets or wagers;
(e) Pooling or
				laying off of bets or wagers; or
(f) Setting lines, point spreads, odds, or
				other activity relating to betting or wagering.
(27) "Gross pool" means the total amount of
				money wagered on the outcome of a particular event.
(28) "Holding company" means a principal or
				principal entity that directly or indirectly owns:
(a) At least 5 percent of the stock, equity
				interest, or other voting security of a sports wagering applicant or licensee;
				or
(b) Through an interest in one
				or more subsidiaries, a power, right, or security of a sports wagering
				applicant or licensee.
(29) "House rules" means a sports wagering
				licensee's Commission-approved requirements for its sports wagering operation
				that are in addition to the Commission's regulations, and that shall include:
(a) A Method for calculating and paying
				winning wagers;
(b) A process for
				handling incorrectly posted events, odds, wagers, or results;
(c) An effect of sporting event schedule
				changes;
(d) A method of notifying
				patrons of odds or proposition changes;
(e) A procedure for accepting wagers other
				than those processes posted by the sports wagering licensee;
(f) A method of notifying bettors that a
				winning ticket expires 182 days after the wager is settled;
(g) If the sports wagering platform allows
				the bettor to place a wager that pays more than the stated maximum amount, the
				licensee's policy and methods for:
(i)
				Limiting the maximum amount a bettor may win on a wager; and
(ii) Precluding a bettor from, or allowing a
				bettor to, collect, a payout in excess of the purported winnings;
(h) A method of contacting the
				sports wagering licensee with questions and complaints;
(i) A method of preventing an excluded
				individual from participating in a sports wagering activity;
(j) A method of funding a sports wager;
				and
(k) Any other item required by
				the Commission to be addressed in the licensee's house rules.
(30) "Independent certified
				testing laboratory" means a person engaged in the testing and verification of
				sports wagering equipment and the equipment, systems, and software utilized to
				collect, monitor, interpret, analyze, authorize, issue, redeem, report, and
				audit data with regard to a sports wagering activity that:
(a) Holds a certificate in good standing for
				compliance with:
(i) International
				Organization for Standardization #17025-General Requirements for the Competence
				of Testing and Calibration Laboratories; and
(ii) International Organization for
				Standardization #17020-General Criteria for the Operation of Various Types of
				Bodies Performing Inspections;
(b) Has performed testing and certification
				of sport wagering equipment, systems, and software on behalf of a state within
				the United States for a period of 5 or more years; and
(c) Has been approved by the Commission to
				test and certify equipment, systems, and software on its behalf.
(31) "Independent evaluator" means
				a person that:
(a) Independently evaluates and
				rates sports wagering content provided by a sports wagering expert, sports
				wagering influencer, or content partner; or
(b) Independently evaluates, audits, or rates
				the accuracy of predictions for sporting event outcomes.
(32) "Indirect interest" means an interest,
				claim, right, legal share, or other financial stake in a person that is
				determined by the Commission to exist by virtue of a financial or other
				interest in another person.
(33)
				"In-game wager" and "In-play bet" mean a wager placed on the outcome of a
				sporting event after the event has started.
(34) "Institutional investor" means:
(a) A retirement fund administered by a
				public agency for the exclusive benefit of federal, State or local public
				employees;
(b) An investment
				company registered under §
											8 of the Investment Company Act of
				1940 (15 U.S.C. §
												80a-8);
(c) A collective investment trust organized
				by a bank under Part 9 of the rules of the Comptroller of the Currency
				(12 CFR §
												9.18);
(d) A closed end investment trust registered
				with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission;
(e) A chartered or licensed life insurance
				company;
(f) A property and
				casualty insurance company;
(g) A
				banking or other chartered or licensed lending institution;
(h) An investment advisor registered under
				the Investment Advisors Act of 1940 (1 5 U.S.C. §§ 80b-1-80
				b-21); or
(i) Any other person
				registered in any foreign jurisdiction and regulated in accordance with a
				statue of any foreign jurisdiction that the Commission determines to be
				substantially similar to that regulated by the Investment Company Act of 1940
				or the Investment Advisors Act of 1940.
(35) "Integrity monitoring" means the
				observation of sports wagering to identify unusual wagering activity or other
				suspicious sports wagering activity that may be reported to law enforcement or
				an organization charged with oversight or monitoring of a sporting
				event.
(36) "Issue" or "issuance"
				means the Commission's final act of authorizing an applicant to legally
				exercise the authority of, or commence activity under, the scope of the license
				for which it applied.
(37) "Kiosk"
				means a Commission-approved device that may be used by a bettor to place a
				wager and may be used to redeem a winning wager.
(38) "Layoff wager" means a wager placed by a
				sports wagering operator with another sports wagering operator for the purpose
				of offsetting bettor wagers.
(39)
				"Licensee" means an applicant who has been issued a license required under this
				subtitle.
(40) "Mandatory exclusion
				list" means a list maintained by the Commission under State Government Article,
				§§
										9-1A-24 and
				9-1E-11, Annotated
				Code of Maryland, that identifies an individual who is to be excluded or
				ejected from:
(a) A sports wagering facility;
				or
(b) Participating in online
				sports wagering.
(41)
				"Maryland State Fair Society" means the holder of a license issued to the
				holder by the State Racing Commission allowing the holder to have a race that
				meets specified conditions under Business Regulation Article, § 11 "524,
				Annotated Code of Maryland.
(42)
				"Mobile sports wagering licensee" means a sports wagering licensee who is
				authorized to conduct and operate online sports wagering.
(43) "Maximum wager limit" means the largest
				wager that can be wagered on a single sports wager.
(44) "Money line wager" means a wager on a
				participant winning a sporting event without the use of the point
				spread.
(45) "Multi-factor
				authentication" means a procedure that requires more than one method to verify
				a bettor's identity through a combination of two or more independent
				credentials, including:
(a) Information known
				only to the bettor, such as a password, pattern or answers to challenge
				questions;
(b) A bettor's biometric
				data, such as fingerprints, facial or voice recognition, to the extent this
				data does not violate privacy laws.
(46) "Non-wagering employee" means an
				individual who is:
(a) Employed or is seeking
				to be employed by an applicant for or holder of a sports wagering license, and
				whose duties are or will be other than the duties of a wagering employee;
				or
(b) Not otherwise required by
				the Commission to be licensed as a wagering employee.
(47) "Online sports wagering" means sports
				wagering that is conducted through a sports wagering platform that:
(a) Is accessed on a computer, phone, or
				other interactive device; and
(b)
				Is accepted by a mobile sports wagering licensee or an online sports wagering
				operator.
(48) "Online
				sports wagering operator" or "online sports wagering operator licensee" means
				an entity registered with a state to do business within a jurisdiction of the
				United States that the Commission has issued a license to operate online sports
				wagering on behalf of a mobile sports wagering licensee.
(49) "Over-under wager" means a wager in
				which a sports wagering licensee sets a number for a statistic in a sporting
				event, and a bettor wagers that the actual result in the sporting event will be
				higher or lower than the number set by the sports wagering licensee.
(50) "Parimutuel betting" has the meaning
				stated in Business Regulation Article, §
										11-101, Annotated
				Code of Maryland.
(51) "Parlay
				wager" means a wager that involves two or more sports wagers combined into one
				wager.
(52) "Payout" means the
				total payment due on a winning wager.
(53) "Penalty" means an amount not to exceed
				$5,000 that the Commission may impose for each separate violation of the Sports
				Wagering Law, the Commission's regulations, or a directive of the
				Commission.
(54) "Personally
				identifiable information" means a person's name in addition to other data or
				information that may be used, alone or combined with other data or information,
				to identify, contact, or locate a registered bettor, including:
(a) Initials, or personal mark;
(b) Unique biometric or genetic print of an
				individual's image;
(c) Social
				Security number;
(d) Date of
				birth;
(e) Identification number
				issued by the government of a state, or the United States;
(f) Passport or identification number issued
				by a government for the purpose of establishing identity or documenting
				citizenship-related status;
(g)
				Financial information, including an account number, taxpayer identification
				number, security code, access code, or password;
(h) Residential address; or
(i) Data or information determined by the
				Commission to identify an individual.
(55) "Point of sale system" means the
				hardware, software and communications that comprise a system capable of
				accepting sports wagers using terminals operated by a cashier or a kiosk
				operated by a bettor on the premises of a sports wagering facility that has
				been approved by the Commission.
(56) "Pool wager" means a wager with a fixed
				entry cost where the bettor's winnings may depend on the number of other
				bettors wagering on the sporting event.
(57) Predatory Marketing Practice.
(a) "Predatory marketing practice" means an
				advertisement or promotion of an activity, product, or service related to
				sports wagering that is:
(i) False or
				deceptive;
(ii) Illegal;
(iii) Knowingly directed to an individual who
				is younger than 21 years old and is not a participant in the sporting
				event;
(iv) Knowingly directed to
				an excluded individual; or
(v)
				Prohibited by law, regulation or court order.
(b) "Predatory marketing practice" includes
				an advertisement or promotion of an activity, product, or service related to
				sports wagering that:
(i) Uses or depicts an
				individual who is, or appears to be, younger than 21 years old;
(ii) By font, color, placement, or any other
				means, obscures or fails to disclose a material condition or limiting factor
				associated with the activity, product, or service being marketed; or
(iii) Fails to include or obscures the
				gambling assistance message required under COMAR 36.10.10.
(58) "Principal" means:
(a) An officer, director, or person who
				directly or indirectly owns or holds a legal or beneficial interest of at least
				5 percent in the securities of an applicant for or holder of a license awarded
				or issued under this subtitle;
(b)
				A person who has a controlling interest in, or the ability to elect a majority
				of the board of directors of an applicant for or holder of a license awarded or
				issued under this subtitle;
(c) A
				lender or other licensed financial institution of a sports wagering license
				applicant for or holder of a license awarded or issued under this subtitle or
				licensee, or a sports wagering contractor license applicant or licensee other
				than a bank or lending institution which makes a loan or holds a mortgage or
				other lien acquired in the ordinary course of business;
(d) An underwriter of an applicant for or
				holder of a license award or issued under this subtitle; or
(e) A person or deemed by the Commission to
				be a principal.
(59)
				Principal Employee.
(a) "Principal employee"
				means an individual who owns, controls, or manages a licensee that is a sports
				wagering facility, sports wagering mobile operator, online sports wagering
				operator, sports wagering facility operator, or sports wagering
				contractor.
(b) "Principal
				employee" includes an employee of a Tier 1 sports wagering contractor who
				performs any function of a Tier 1 sports wagering contractor.
(c) "Principal employee" does not include a
				wagering employee, temporary wagering employee, or non-wagering
				employee.
(60)
				"Prohibited sports wager" means any sports wager not approved by the
				Commission.
(61) "Proposition
				wager" or "proposition bet" means a wager on an individual action, statistic,
				occurrence, or non-occurrence which is determined during a sporting
				event.
(62) "Registered bettor"
				means a person who has registered with a sports wagering licensee to make
				wagers or for inclusion in the licensee's bettor tracking system.
(63) "Restricted area" means that part of a
				sports wagering facility directly related to the operation of sports wagering
				where access is specifically designated by the Commission as restricted,
				including:
(a) Cashier's cage, including a
				satellite cashiers' cage and ancillary offices;
(b) Computer space allocated to sports
				wagering platforms;
(c) Count room
				and trolley storage area;
(d) Areas
				designated for the storage or repair of sports wagering equipment;
(e) Information technology operations
				centers;
(f) Surveillance
				monitoring rooms;
(g) Vault and
				armored car bay locations;
(h) Data
				information center;
(i) Any area
				that the sports wagering licensee has designated as restricted in its
				Commission-approved accounting and internal control systems; and
(j) Any other area the Commission designates
				a restricted area.
(64)
				"Risk management" means processes and tools that sports wagering licensees use
				to manage the risk and liabilities associated with sports wagering.
(65) "Sanction" means an enforcement action
				that the Commission may take against an applicant or licensee, and may include
				suspension or revocation of a license, reprimand, or imposition of a condition
				on a licensee.
(66) "Satellite
				simulcast betting" has the meaning stated in Business Regulation Article,
				§
										11-815, Annotated
				Code of Maryland.
(67) "Satellite
				simulcast facility" means the location specified in a permit issued by the
				State Racing Commission necessary for offering satellite simulcast betting
				under Business Regulation Article, §§
										11-815" 11-832,
				Annotated Code of Maryland.
(68)
				"Settled wager" means a wager that has been resolved with a result of either a
				win, loss, or push to the bettor.
(69) "Sports bettor tracking system" means
				the hardware, software, communications technology, and other ancillary
				equipment owned or leased by a sports wagering licensee to collect, monitor,
				interpret, analyze, authorize, report, and audit data pertaining to:
(a) A sports wagering activity; and
(b) If a bettor has registered with the
				sports wagering licensee for inclusion in a bettor tracking system, a bettor's
				sports wagering activity.
(70) "Sports wagering" means:
(a) The business of accepting a wager on a
				sporting event; and
(b) Placing a
				wager with a sports wagering licensee on a sporting event.
(71) "Sports wagering account" or "bettor
				account" means an electronic account that may be established by a bettor for
				the purpose of sports wagering, including making deposits and withdrawals,
				placing wagers, and receiving payouts on winning wagers.
(72) "Sports Wagering Application Review
				Commission" or "SWARC" means the Commission established under State Government
				Article, §
										9-1E-15, Annotated
				Code of Maryland.
(73) "Sports
				wagering content" means:
(a) The setting of
				odds; or
(b) The prediction of
				sporting event outcomes of any type provided at no cost, for a fee, or through
				a subscription or other partnership, including:
(i) Moneylines;
(ii) Against the spread;
(v) Totals;
(iv) Futures;
(v) Parlays; and
(vi) Other outcomes.
(74) "Sports wagering content
				partner" or "content partner" means an individual who, or a platform that,
				creates sports wagering content for a sports wagering licensee through
				contracted work, affiliation, or other partnership.
(75) "Sports wagering contractor" or "contractor":
(a) Means, other than an individual, a person
				who contracts with a sports wagering licensee to provide services as a Tier 1
				or Tier 2 sports wagering contractor, that may include:
(i) Management or operation;
(ii) Security;
(iii) Service, maintenance, update, or repair of
				sports wagering equipment or associated equipment or software; or
(iv) Any other service for which the
				Commission requires a sports wagering contractor license; and
(b) Includes a person who owns or
				controls a service described in §B(75)(a) of this
				regulation.
(76) "Sports
				wagering contractor Tier 1" or "Tier 1 contractor" means a sports wagering
				contractor that provides sports wagering equipment or services and:
(a) Does not accept wagers;
(b) Whose services may affect sports wagering
				payouts or other wagering outcomes;
(c) Manufactures self-service kiosks,
				devices, or machines that have been approved by the Commission for use in a
				sports wagering facility;
(d) May
				have contact with, or access to, sports wagering equipment or sports wagering
				platforms;
(e) Supplies parts or
				software related to sports wagering operations;
(f) Provides security for sports wagering
				operations;
(g) May employ a sports
				wagering employee that is a principal employee;
(h) Is an independent evaluator; or
(i) Is a sports wagering content
				partner.
(77) "Sports
				wagering contractor-Tier 2" or "Tier 2 contractor" means a sports wagering
				contractor that supplies equipment or services related to a sports wagering
				licensee's sports wagering operations, and:
(a) Whose services may not affect wagering
				outcomes;
(b) Has no contact with,
				or access to, sports wagering equipment or sports wagering platforms;
				and
(c) May not employ a sports
				wagering employee that is a principal employee.
(78) "Sports wagering employee" or "wagering
				employee" means an individual who:
(a) Is or
				is seeking to be employed by an applicant for or holder of a sports wagering
				license, whose duties relate, or may relate to the operation of a sports
				wagering facility or sports wagering, and who performs or supervises or may
				perform or supervise the performance of:
(i)
				Operating, servicing, or maintaining sports wagering equipment or associated
				equipment or software;
(ii)
				Accounting, maintaining, or auditing a licensee's sports wagering-related
				financial records;
(iii) Counting
				or processing sports wagering revenue, wagers, payouts, or proceeds;
(iv) Conducting security or surveillance in
				or around a sports wagering facility or the operation center of a mobile sports
				wagering licensee or online sports wagering operator licensee; or
(v) Operating or maintaining a sports
				wagering licensee's information systems;
(b) Is employed by a sports wagering
				contractor, whose duties directly relate to the repair, service, or
				distribution of sports wagering equipment or associated equipment or software,
				or is otherwise required to be present at a wagering facility or in a
				restricted area of a wagering facility; or
(c) Is otherwise required by the Commission
				to be licensed as a sports wagering employee.
(79) "Sports wagering equipment" means any
				mechanical, electronic or other device, mechanism, software or equipment, and
				related supplies used or consumed in the operation of sports wagering,
				including a self-service kiosk on the premises of a sports wagering
				facility.
(80) "Sports wagering
				facility", "wagering facility", or "facility" means a place where a bettor may
				place a wager in person, that:
(a) Is
				physically located on premises that are owned, leased, or occupied by a sports
				wagering facility licensee; and
(b)
				Has been issued a sports wagering facility license by the Commission.
(81) "Sports wagering facility
				operator" or "sports wagering facility operator licensee" means a person that
				operates sports wagering on behalf of a sports wagering facility licensee:
(a) On premises that are physically owned,
				leased, or occupied by the sports wagering facility licensee; and
(b) Has been issued a sports wagering
				facility operator license by the Commission.
(82) "Sports wagering facility operator
				license" means an operator license issued by the Commission to a person that
				operates a sports wagering facility on behalf of a sports wagering facility
				licensee.
(83) "Sports wagering
				influencer" or "sports wagering expert" means:
(a) A person who creates sports wagering
				content for the benefit of a sports wagering licensee, a content partner, or
				the person's benefit; and
(b) The
				sports wagering content:
(i) Uses a person's
				prestige, popularity, notoriety, or specific knowledge or expertise that is
				real, implied, or suggested; and
(ii) Attempts to, or does, encourage, induce,
				or persuade a bettor's wagering decision.
(84) "Sports wagering website" means the
				website or interactive wagering application through which a sports wagering
				licensee makes authorized mobile sports wagering available.
(85) "Sports wagering license" means a
				license issued by the Commission that authorizes the holder to accept sports
				wagers.
(86) "Sports wagering
				licensee" means the holder of a sports wagering license.
(87) "Sports wagering operation" or "sports wagering
				operations" means the entirety of a sports wagering licensee's business of
				conducting sports wagering and related activities, including:
(a) Accepting and redeeming wagers;
(b) Maintaining financial
				accounting;
(c) Securing a sports
				wagering platform;
(d) Securing a
				sports wagering platform;
(e)
				Conducting surveillance of a sports wagering facility;
(f) Owning, leasing, or occupying a sports
				wagering facility; and
(g)
				Performing any other related activity.
(88) "Sports wagering platform" means:
(a) Hardware and software used for a website,
				application, or other platform which is accessible via the internet or mobile,
				wireless, or similar communications technology that allows bettors to
				participate in sports wagering; or
(b) Hardware, software, firmware,
				communications technology, or other equipment that a sports wagering licensee
				uses to:
(i) Allow a bettor to participate in
				sports wagering;
(ii) Display the
				wager outcomes and other similar information necessary to facilitate sports
				wagering;
(iii) Review bettor
				accounts and generate financial reports;
(iv) Suspend wagering on sporting
				events;
(v) Input outcomes for
				sporting events; and
(vi) Set any
				configurable parameters.
(89) "Sports wagering ticket" means a printed
				record issued or an electronic record maintained by a sports wagering platform
				that evidences a sports wager.
(90)
				"Sports wagering voucher" means a printed record or digital representation
				issued by a sports wagering platform that may be used to fund a wager or may be
				redeemable for cash.
(91) "Straight
				wager" and "single-game bet" mean a wager on a single sporting event that will
				be determined by a point spread, money line or total score.
(92) "Teaser bet" means a wager in which the
				sports wagering licensee adjusts the odds of winning in a bettor's
				favor.
(93) "Temporary sports
				wagering facility" means an area approved by the Commission for use in sports
				wagering operations during the construction of a facility.
(94) Unredeemed Item.
(a) "Unredeemed item" means a sports wagering
				voucher, sports wagering ticket, or similar item that has monetary value and:
(i) Has been won by a bettor participating in
				sports wagering; or
(ii) Has been
				inserted into sports wagering equipment.
(b) "Unredeemed item" does not include
				cash.
(95) "Unusual
				wagering activity" means a wager or pattern of wagering by a bettor that:
(a) Is abnormal in amount, frequency,
				pattern, or type; or
(b) May
				indicate past, current, attempted, or planned cheating.
(96) "Video lottery employee" means an
				individual who holds a license issued under State Government Article, §
										9-1A-14, Annotated
				Code of Maryland, and meets the requirements of COMAR 36.03.02.12.
(97) "Voided wager" means a wager invalidated
				by a licensee for a specified sporting event.
(98) "Wager" or "wagering" means betting a
				sum of money or promotional credit on the outcome of a sporting
				event.
(99) "Wagering day" means a
				period of time determined by the Commission, not to exceed 24 hours, that marks
				the beginning and ending times of wagering activities for the purposes of
				establishing accounting reports and determining daily
				proceeds.