Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 13 - Gaming › Part 1 - Organization and Administration › Chapter 2 - PUBLIC AND CONFIDENTIAL RECORDS › Rule 13-1-2.1 - Definitions

Current through June 25, 2024
As used in this regulation
(a) "Agency work product" means any paper, document, or other
				  record prepared within the Commission, in performance of statutory authority,
				  which contains opinions or recommendations submitted for consideration in the
				  performance of decisional or policy making functions or information supplied by
				  any governmental agency or an informer or on the assurance that the information
				  will be held in confidence. "Agency work product" includes, but is not limited
				  to, the following documents prepared by members, agents, attorneys, and
				  employees of the Commission:
1. Investigative summaries concerning applicants for
				  licensure, finding of suitability, registration, or other affirmative
				  Commission approval;
2. Investigatory files compiled for law enforcement
				  purposes;
3. Investigative reports;
4. Work papers and notes of members, agents, attorneys, and
				  employees of the Commission;
5. Audit reports, including work papers, whether for special
				  or regular audits;
6. Orders to show cause and related documents; and
7. Reports regarding loans to licensees, submitted to the
				  Commission pursuant to Regulation II-I.
(b) "Applicant records" means those records which contain
				  information and data pertaining to an applicant's criminal record, antecedents
				  and background, and the applicant's financial records, furnished to or obtained
				  by the Commission from any source incident to an investigation for licensure,
				  finding of suitability, registration, or other affirmative approval.
(c) "Certification fees" means the fees charged by Commission
				  personnel incident to the certification of documents.
(d) "Confidential record" means any paper, document or other
				  record or data reduced to a record which is not open to public
				  inspection.
(e) "Duplication fees" mean a charge for duplicating
				  documents for release to the requesting person.
(f) "Financial records" mean those records which relate to
				  the finances, earnings, or revenue of an applicant, licensee, registered
				  company, or person to whom any approval has been granted.
(g) "Investigation" means any investigation conducted by the
				  Commission or its staff pursuant to the Mississippi Gaming Control Act and the
				  regulations promulgated thereunder, including, but not limited to, an
				  investigation pursuant to an application for a gaming license, continuation of
				  a gaming license, finding of suitability, registration, approval, other
				  license, or periodic compliance investigation. (Adopted: 11/18/1999.)
(h) "Law enforcement agency" means any governmental agency
				  involved in the investigation of criminal activity or the arrest, detention, or
				  prosecution of persons suspected of engaging in criminal activity.
(i) "Public record" means any paper, document, or other
				  record required to be kept or necessary to be kept, in the discharge of a duty
				  imposed by law, not declared confidential by statute or regulation. Public
				  records are open to public inspection and include, but are not limited to, the
				  following:
1. Minutes of Commission regular and special public meetings,
				  and all public hearings conducted by the Commission, or its agents, including
				  exhibits entered in the public record as public documents at those meetings or
				  hearings;
2. A list of all applications made under the Act and the
				  record of all formal actions taken with respect to such applications by the
				  Executive Director or the Commission;
3. Agendas of Commission meetings;
4. With the exception of documents filed under seal pursuant
				  to section 3, legal documents filed with the Commission concerning contested
				  cases brought by or against the Executive Director, including, without
				  limitation, disciplinary actions, proceedings concerning the possible inclusion
				  of persons on the list of excluded persons, petitions for redetermination, and
				  requests for refund, except that the summary of evidence filed with a
				  disciplinary complaint and the evidence to which it refers is confidential
				  until such documents are entered in the public record as public documents at a
				  commission hearing on the complaint;
5. Commission files on the enactment, amendment, or repeal of
				  regulations;
6. The Act and the regulations promulgated thereunder;
7. Licenses;
8. The following public documents submitted to the Commission
				  and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission by publicly traded
				  corporations:
i. Annual and quarterly reports to the United States
				  Securities and Exchange Commission;
ii. Notices of annual meetings and proxy material provided to
				  the shareholders; and
iii. Registration statements declared effective by the United
				  States Securities and Exchange Commission; and
9. Reports and correspondence of the Commission specifically
				  prepared for public distribution. (Adopted: 09/25/1991; Amended:
				  11/18/1999.)
Miss. Code Ann. §
										75-76-5
				  (Rev. 2004);