Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3770:2 - Video Lottery Gaming Terminals › Chapter 3770:2-2 - Definitions › Section 3770:2-2-01 - Definition of certain terms used in division 3770:2 of the Administrative Code

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) "Administrative Procedure Act" means
			 Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, and all amendments thereto.
(B) "Associated equipment" means hardware and
			 software that is utilized in connection with the video lottery, but does not
			 include telecommunication facilities and equipment of a public
			 utility.
(C) "Capital Investment"
			 means costs related to demolition, engineering, architecture, design, site
			 preparation, construction, infrastructure improvements, land acquisitions,
			 furniture, fixtures, equipment, insurance related to construction, capitalized
			 interest and other financing costs, leasehold improvements, video lottery
			 terminal acquisition and related technology, surveillance and security
			 equipment, and such other costs as approved by the director which are usual and
			 customary for the industry.
(D)
			 "Commission" and "Ohio lottery commission" and "lottery" mean the state lottery
			 commission created by the Lottery Act.
(E) "Commissioners" means a member of the
			 commission.
(F) "Credit" means the
			 value remaining to a video lottery participant usually denoted in units of play
			 that may be used to continue to play video lottery games or may be redeemed for
			 cash, or its monetary equivalent, or other prizes. Credit balances are
			 increased by cash inserted, credit vouchers inserted, and/or video lottery
			 prize winnings and may be increased by 
								video lottery terminal promotional
			 gaming credits.
(G) "Credit
			 voucher" means a bearer instrument issued from a video lottery terminal for
			 redemption of credit in accordance with the requirements of the Lottery Act and
			 the commission's rules and regulations.
(H) "Director" means the executive director
			 of the state lottery appointed in accordance with the Lottery Act.
(I) "Electronic display" means the
			 presentation of elements of video lottery games including but not limited to
			 prize determination which are visible on a video lottery terminal and which may
			 include but are not limited to mechanical spinning reels and/or video
			 displays.
(J) "Game" means a
			 lottery game offered by the state lottery for sale to the public.
(K) "Gaming employee" means any employee
			 employed in the operation of a facility whose duties primarily involve the
			 maintenance or operation of gaming activity or equipment or who comes in
			 contact with gaming related cash, tokens, credit vouchers, vouchers, or other
			 financial instruments or who performs security and surveillance activities, but
			 who are not key gaming employees.
(L) "Institutional investor" means any of the
			 following entities: a corporation, bank, insurance company, pension fund or
			 pension fund trust, retirement fund, including funds administered by a public
			 agency, employees' profit-sharing fund or employees' profit-sharing trust, any
			 association engaged, as a substantial part of its business or operations, in
			 purchasing or holding securities, including a hedge fund, mutual fund, or
			 private equity fund, or any trust in respect of which a bank is trustee or
			 cotrustee, investment company registered under the "Investment Company Act of
			 1940,"
			 15 U.S.C.
			 80a-1, collective investment trust organized
			 by banks under "Part Nine of the Rules of the Comptroller of the Currency,"
			 closed-end investment trust, chartered or licensed life insurance company or
			 property and casualty insurance company, investment advisor registered under
			 the "Investment Advisors Act of 1940," 15 U.S.C. 80 b-1, and such other persons
			 as the commission may reasonably determine to qualify as an institutional
			 investor for reasons consistent with this chapter.
(M) "Key gaming employee" includes managers,
			 supervisors or other employees who have authority to develop or administer
			 policy, long-range plans, or to make discretionary decisions regulating gaming
			 operations and managers, supervisors or other employees responsible for major
			 areas of the property, even if no gaming is conducted in the area.
(N) "Licensing fee" means the fee to be paid
			 by an applicant that is approved for a video lottery license which shall be in
			 an amount set forth in rules promulgated by the commission under division
			 3770:2 of the Administrative Code.
(O) "Lottery Act" means Chapter 3770. of the
			 Revised Code, and all amendments thereto.
(P) "Lottery fund" means the various lottery
			 funds established in section
			 3770.06 of the Revised
			 Code.
(Q) "Non-Gaming Employee"
			 means any person who works for a video lottery sales agent, whose duties do not
			 involve the maintenance or operation of gaming activity or equipment or who
			 does not come in contact with gaming related cash, tokens, credit vouchers, or
			 other financial instruments or who does not perform security and surveillance
			 activities, and who is not a key gaming employee.
(R) "Permit holder" means an entity
			 authorized by the state racing commission to conduct one or more horse racing
			 meetings under Chapter 3769. of the Revised Code.
(S) "Person" means any person, persons,
			 association, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, club, trust,
			 estate, society, receiver, trustee, hedge fund, mutual fund, private equity
			 fund, person acting in a fiduciary or representative capacity, instrumentality
			 of the state or any of its political subdivisions, or any other combination of
			 individuals meeting the requirements established by rule or order of the
			 commission.
(T) "Settlement date"
			 means each date specified by the director on which video lottery sales agents
			 are to settle their transactions through deposits in accordance with procedures
			 established by the director.
(U)
			 "Technology provider" means a video lottery terminal manufacturer, distributor
			 or provider who contracts with video lottery sales agents A technology provider
			 also means an independent test lab licensed by the lottery.
(V) "Ticket" means a lottery ticket issued by
			 the state lottery for sale to the public.
(W) "Unclaimed credit vouchers" means credit
			 vouchers for cash or its monetary equivalent not redeemed within the redemption
			 period set forth in rule
			 3770:2-7-02
			 of the Administrative Code.
(X)
			 "United States gaming jurisdiction" or "Another United States gaming
			 jurisdiction" as used in this chapter shall mean the gaming jurisdiction of any
			 state and shall include the Ohio casino control commission and the Ohio state
			 racing commission.
(Y) "Value"
			 means the United States monetary equivalent.
(Z)
								
								"Video lottery terminal promotional
			 gaming credit" means a video lottery terminal game credit, discount, or other
			 similar item issued to a patron to enable the placement of, or increase in, a
			 wager at a video lottery terminal.
(AA) "Video lottery" means the operation of
			 video lottery games through the use of video lottery terminals, central
			 monitoring systems, control systems, communications processes and/or associated
			 equipment and activities connected and/or associated therewith.
(BB) "Video lottery applicant" means a person
			 who is a permit holder or who has applied to be a permit holder and who applies
			 for a video lottery license in accordance with the Lottery Act and division
			 3770:2 of the Administrative Code.
(CC) "Video lottery central monitoring
			 system" means a system that may be operated by or under the control of the
			 lottery commission for the purpose of providing the following functions
			 relating to the sale of video lottery games: security, auditing, data and
			 information retrieval, and other purposes deemed necessary and authorized by
			 the lottery commission.
(DD) "Video
			 lottery central system provider" means the person that contracts with the
			 lottery commission to provide the video lottery central system and its
			 component parts and equipment and activities connected and/or associated
			 therewith.
(EE) "Video lottery
			 game" means any game authorized by the commission that is played on a video
			 lottery terminal.
(FF) "Video
			 lottery participant" means an individual who is twenty-one years of age or
			 older and who purchases a video lottery ticket.
(GG) "Video lottery principal" means (1) an
			 officer or director of a video lottery applicant or licensee; (2) a
			 shareholder, general partner of a partnership, individual proprietor of a
			 proprietorship, or any other form of association, entity, organization, or
			 group of owners, having directly or indirectly an ownership interest of five
			 percent or more in a video lottery applicant or licensee; (3) an institutional
			 investor as defined in paragraph (L) of this rule having an ownership interest
			 in a video lottery applicant or licensee of five percent or more, except as
			 otherwise provided in paragraph (A)(7) of rule
			 3770:2-3-01
			 of the Administration Code.
(HH)
			 ""Video lottery sales agent" and/or "sales agent" is a permit holder authorized
			 to conduct live racing in accordance with Chapter 3769. of the Revised Code,
			 and which is licensed by the director to sell video lottery games through video
			 lottery terminals, and who continues to be a permit holder while authorized by
			 the director to sell video lottery games.
(II) "Video lottery ticket" means an
			 electronic or virtual instrument to enable a video lottery participant to play
			 a video lottery game.
(JJ) "Video
			 lottery prize payment" means the payment, by the commission or a video lottery
			 sales agent, of prizes won by a video lottery participant while engaged in play
			 on a video lottery terminal.
(KK)
			 "Video lottery winnings" means the value of credits awarded that can be
			 redeemed for cash or other designated prizes as a result of a video lottery
			 winning game outcome.
(LL) "Video
			 lottery license" means the specific privilege granted to a video lottery
			 applicant by the director to sell video lottery games.
(MM) "Video lottery terminal or VLT"
			 means any electronic device approved by the state lottery
			 commission that provides immediate prize determinations for participants on an
			 electronic display that is located at a facility owned by permit
			 holder.
(NN) "Video lottery
			 terminal income" means 
								credits played, minus approved video lottery terminal
			 promotional gaming credits, minus video lottery prize awards.
Effective:
				8/29/2013
R.C. 119.032 review dates:
				05/13/2013 and
				08/29/2018
Promulgated
				Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 3770.03
Rule
				Amplifies: 3770.01, 3770.02, 3770.03, 3770.06, 3770.21
Prior
				Effective Dates: 8/18/09 (Emer), 10/28/10, 01/16/12,
				10/25/12