Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY › Division 45 - Missouri Gaming Commission › Chapter 4 - Licenses › Section 11 CSR 45-4.260 - Occupational Licenses for Class A, Class B, and Suppliers

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This amendment eliminates language that is
				  duplicated in another rule.
(1) Every person in a position classified as
				Occupational License Level I or Occupational License Level II or otherwise
				participating in gaming operations in any capacity shall, prior to performing
				or practicing his/her business profession or skills, be a current employee of
				the Class A, Class B, or supplier licensee, and have obtained the appropriate
				occupational license from the commission, except for public officers and public
				employees engaged in the performance of their official duties and other
				individuals exempted by the commission. The commission may authorize the
				director to license or make the initial determination of unsuitability on the
				application of any Level II occupational license applicant, and the commission
				may further authorize the director to make the initial determination to revoke
				or suspend the Level I or Level II occupational license of any person;
				provided, however, that this section shall not limit any other authorization of
				the director. The authorization provided hereunder shall not include the
				authority to review findings of a hearing officer under the provisions of 11
				CSR 45-13.
(2) As a condition of
				licensure, all applicants for occupational licenses are required to be
				fingerprinted, photographed and to execute such waivers as may be provided by
				forms approved by the commission, provided that applicants for a key business
				entity license need not be fingerprinted or photographed.
(3) On forms available on the commission's
				website, the applicant must demonstrate that his/her experience, reputation,
				competence and financial responsibility are consistent with the best interest
				of gaming and the provisions of the statutes of Missouri and the United
				States.
(4) The commission may
				refuse an occupational license to any person or revoke or suspend an
				occupational license of any person-
(A) Who
				has been convicted of a crime or has been found guilty of, plead guilty or
nolo contendere
to, or entered an Alford plea to a crime, or
				received a suspended imposition of sentence, for violations of any federal,
				state, county or city law including ordinance violations;
(B) Who is unqualified to perform the duties
				required of the applicant;
(C) Who
				has a current addiction to a controlled substance;
(D) Who fails to disclose or states falsely
				information called for in the application process or uses fraud, deception,
				misrepresentation, or bribery in securing a permit or license issued under the
				Riverboat Gambling Act;
(E) Who has
				failed to comply with or make provision for complying with Chapter 313, RSMo,
				the rules of this commission, or any federal, state, or local law or
				regulation;
(F) Who fails to comply
				with any rule, order or ruling of the commission or its agents;
(G) Whose license has been suspended, revoked
				or denied in any jurisdiction;
(H)
				Who is a past or present member or participant in organized crime as such
				membership or participation may be found or determined by the
				commission;
(I) Who is an illegal
				alien;
(J) Who is an employee of
				the commission or is a spouse, child, brother, sister, parent, son-in-law,
				daughter-in-law, stepchild or stepparent of any employee or member of the
				commission;
(K) Who is currently
				serving or has within the past two (2) years served as a member or employee of
				the commission, a member of the general assembly, or as an elected or appointed
				official of the state or of any city or county within the state in which the
				licensing of excursion gambling boats has been approved in either the city or
				the county or both or as an employee of the state highway patrol designated by
				the superintendent of the highway patrol or any employee of the state attorney
				general's office designated by the state attorney general to have direct
				regulatory authority related to excursion gambling boats;
(L) Who is financially
				irresponsible;
(M) Who is not of
				good moral character or has associated with, in either social or business
				affairs, or employed persons of notorious or unsavory reputation or who have
				police records, or who have failed to cooperate with any officially constituted
				investigatory or administrative body and would adversely affect public
				confidence and trust in gambling;
(N) Who provides the commission or its agents
				with false or misleading information, documents, or data or who makes false or
				misleading statements to the commission or its agents;
(O) Who commits an act or omission that, if
				committed by a Class A licensee, would be grounds for discipline or denial of
				an application;
(P) Who obtains or
				attempts to obtain any fee, charge, or other compensation by fraud, deception,
				or misrepresentation; or
(Q) For
				incompetence, misconduct, gross negligence, fraud, misrepresentation or
				dishonesty in the performance of the functions or duties regulated by sections
				313.800
				to
				313.850,
				RSMo.