Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 35 - HORSE RACING › Part XVII - Historical Horse Racing › Chapter 131 - Wagering on Historical Horse Racing › Section XVII-13123 - Totalizator or Other Approved Equipment Required

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Pari-mutuel wagering on historical horse
				races shall only be conducted through the use of a totalizator or other similar
				mechanical or electrical equipment.
B. The totalizator or other mechanical or
				electrical equipment shall be available for testing under the supervision of
				the commission upon request by the commission to ensure its proper working
				order.
C. Wagering on historical
				horse races shall be offered on terminals that include a cabinet in which the
				electronics and other operating components are located. All terminals and other
				equipment shall be subject to inspection by the commission.
D. The terminal cabinet and electronics
				shall:
1. protect against electrostatic
				interference by being grounded so that static discharge energy shall not
				permanently damage or inhibit the normal operation of the electronics or other
				components within the wagering terminal. In the event that a temporary
				disruption of the normal operation of a wagering terminal occurs as a result of
				an electrostatic discharge, the wagering terminal shall have the capacity to
				recover and complete any interrupted wager without loss or corruption of any
				control or critical data information. Each terminal shall be tested to a
				maximum discharge severity level of 27 kilovolt air discharge;
2. not be adversely affected, other than
				during resets, by surges or dips of up to 20 percent of the supply voltage. If
				a wagering terminal is designed such that a surge or dip of up to 20 percent of
				the supply voltage causes a reset, the terminal shall also be designed so that
				a surge or dip shall not result in damage to the equipment or loss or
				corruption of data. Upon reset, the wager play shall return to its previous
				state or return to a wager completion state, provided the wagering history and
				all credit and accounting meters comprehend a completed wager play;
3. have an on/off switch that controls the
				electrical current installed in a readily accessible location within the
				interior of the terminal so that power cannot be disconnected from outside of
				the terminal using the on/off switch. The on/off positions of the switch shall
				be labeled;
4. be designed so that
				power and data cables into and out of the terminal can be routed so that they
				are not accessible to the general public. Security-related wires and cables
				that are routed into a logic area shall be securely fastened within the
				interior of the terminal;
5. have
				an identification badge affixed to the exterior of the terminal by the terminal
				provider that is not removable without leaving evidence of tampering. This
				badge shall include the following information:
a. the name of the terminal
				provider;
b. a unique serial
				number;
c. the terminal model
				number; and
d. the date of
				manufacture;
6. have an
				external tower light located conspicuously on the top of the terminal that
				automatically illuminates when a patron has won an amount that the terminal
				cannot automatically pay or when an error condition has occurred;
7. be constructed of materials that are
				designed to allow only authorized access to the inside of the terminal. The
				terminal and its locks, doors, and associated hinges shall be capable of
				withstanding determined and unauthorized efforts to gain access to the inside
				of the terminal and shall be designed to leave evidence of tampering if such an
				entry is made;
8. be equipped with
				doors of a locked area that are designed to resist the use of tools or other
				objects used to breach the locked area by physical force;
9. have external doors that shall be locked
				and monitored by door access sensors. When the external doors are opened, the
				door access sensors shall:
a. cause wagering
				activity to cease;
b. disable all
				currency acceptance;
c. enter an
				error condition;
d. illuminate the
				tower light at a minimum; and
e.
				record the error condition. The requirements of this Subsection do not apply to
				the drop box door;
10.
				have external doors designed so that it shall not be possible to insert a
				device into the terminal that will disable a sensor that indicates "door open"
				without leaving evidence of tampering when the door of the terminal is
				shut;
11. have a sensor system that
				shall provide notification that an external door is open when the door is moved
				from its fully closed and locked position, provided power is supplied to the
				device;
12. have a logic area,
				which is a separately locked cabinet area with its own monitored, locked door
				or other monitored, locked covering that houses electronic components that have
				the potential to significantly influence the operation of the terminal. There
				may be more than one such logic area in a terminal. The electronic components
				housed in the logic area shall include:
a. a
				central processing unit and any program storage device that contains software
				that may affect the integrity of wagering, including the individual play
				accounting, system communication, and peripheral firmware devices involved in
				or that significantly influence the operation and calculation of wager plays,
				wager outcome display, wager result determination, or wager play accounting,
				revenue, or security;
b.
				communication controller electronics and components housing the communication
				program storage device; and
c. the
				nonvolatile memory backup device, which if located in the logic area, shall be
				kept within a locked logic area; and
13. have a currency storage area that is
				separately keyed and fitted with sensors that indicate "door open/close" or
				"stacker receptacle removed," provided power is supplied to the device. Access
				to the currency storage area shall be secured by two locks before the currency
				can be removed. The locks shall be located on the relevant outer door and on at
				least one other door.