Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 13 - Gaming › Part 3 - OPERATIONS › Chapter 1 - IN GENERAL › Rule 13-3-1.2 - Grounds for Disciplinary Action

Current through June 25, 2024
The Commission deems any activity on the part of any
				  licensee, his agents or employees, that is inimical to the public health,
				  safety, morals, good order and general welfare of the people of the State of
				  Mississippi or that would reflect or tend to reflect discredit upon the State
				  of Mississippi or the gaming industry, to be an unsuitable method of operation
				  and shall be grounds for disciplinary action by the Commission in accordance
				  with the Mississippi Gaming Control Act and the regulations of the Commission.
				  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the following acts or
				  omissions may be determined to be unsuitable methods of operation:
(a) Failure to exercise discretion and sound
				judgment to prevent incidents which might reflect on the repute of the State of
				Mississippi and act as a detriment to the integrity of the industry;
(b) Permitting persons who are visibly
				intoxicated to participate in gaming activity;
(c) Complimentary service of intoxicating
				beverage in the casino area to persons who are visibly intoxicated;
(d) Failure to conduct advertising and public
				relations activities in accordance with decency, dignity, good taste, honesty
				and inoffensiveness;
(e) Catering
				to, assisting, employing or associating with, either socially or in business
				affairs, persons of notorious or unsavory reputation or who have extensive
				police records, or persons who have defied congressional investigative
				committees, or other officially constituted bodies acting on behalf of the
				United States, or any state, or persons who are associated with or support
				subversive movements, or the employing either directly or through a contract,
				or any other means, of any firm or individual in any capacity where the repute
				of the State of Mississippi or the gaming industry is liable to be damaged
				because of the unsuitability of the firm or individual or because of the
				unethical methods of operation of the firm or individual;
(f) Employing in a position for which the
				individual could be required to obtain a finding of suitability, any person who
				has been denied a state gaming license on the grounds of unsuitability or who
				has failed or refused to apply for a finding of suitability when so requested
				by the Commission;
(g) Employing in
				any gaming operation any person whom the Commission or any court has found
				guilty of cheating or using any improper device in connection with any game,
				whether as a licensee, dealer, or player at a licensed game or device; as well
				as any person whose conduct of a licensed game as a dealer or other employee of
				a licensee resulted in revocation or suspension of the license of such
				licensee;
(h) Failure to comply
				with or make provision for compliance with all federal, state and local laws
				and regulations pertaining to the operations of a licensed establishment
				including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, payment of all
				license fees, withholding any payroll taxes, liquor and entertainment taxes and
				antitrust and monopoly statutes.
(i) The Mississippi Gaming Commission in the
				exercise of its sound discretion can make its own determination of whether or
				not the licensee has failed to comply with the aforementioned, but any such
				determination shall make use of the established precedents in interpreting the
				language of the applicable statutes. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to
				affect any right to judicial review;
1.
				Possessing or permitting to remain in or upon any licensed premises any cards,
				dice, mechanical device or any other cheating device whatever, the use of which
				is prohibited by statute or ordinance, or
2. Conducting, carrying on, operating or
				dealing any cheating or thieving game or device on the premises, either
				knowingly or unknowingly, which may have in any manner been marked, tampered
				with or otherwise placed in a condition, or operated in a manner, which tends
				to deceive the public or which might make the game more liable to win or lose,
				or which tends to alter the normal random selection of criteria which determine
				the results of the game;