Pennsylvania Code › Title 58 - RECREATION › Part VII - GAMING CONTROL BOARD › Subpart L - Interactive Gaming › Chapter 817a - INTERACTIVE GAMING COMMENCEMENT OF OPERATIONS › Section 817a.3 - Interactive gaming skins

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(a) Under
				  the act, the Board may issue an interactive gaming certificate to slot machine
				  licensees to conduct interactive gaming in this Commonwealth, directly or
				  through an interactive gaming operator acting on behalf of the interactive
				  gaming certificate holder under the terms of an interactive gaming agreement
				  that has been approved by the Board. For purposes of this subpart, "slot
				  machine licensee" includes all Category 1, 2 and 3 slot machine licensees, and
				  eligible qualified gaming entities.
(b) Under the act, the Board may authorize
				  interactive gaming certificate holders or interactive gaming operators
				  operating an interactive gaming system on behalf of an interactive gaming
				  certificate holder to deploy interactive gaming skins or interactive gaming web
				  sites, including through mobile applications, to facilitate the conduct of
				  interactive gaming activities for registered players in this Commonwealth or
				  registered players in any other state or jurisdiction which the Commonwealth
				  has entered into an interactive gaming reciprocal agreement.
(c) Interactive gaming operators are not
				  permitted to offer interactive games in this Commonwealth independent from an
				  interactive gaming certificate holder and the interactive gaming certificate
				  holder's webpage or the webpage of an entity within the interactive gaming
				  certificate holder's organizational structure.
(d) Interactive gaming certificate holders
				  and interactive gaming operators acting on behalf of an interactive gaming
				  certificate holder may only offer interactive gaming in this Commonwealth
				  through the interactive gaming certificate holder's webpage or mobile
				  application or the webpage or mobile application of an entity within the
				  interactive gaming certificate holder's organizational structure.
(e) Interactive gaming certificate holders
				  and interactive gaming operators operating an interactive gaming system on
				  behalf of an interactive gaming certificate holder shall obtain Board approval
				  of all interactive gaming skins operated on behalf of the interactive gaming
				  certificate holder for purposes of conducting interactive gaming in this
				  Commonwealth.
(f) To ensure
				  compliance with the act, a slot machine licensee or eligible qualified gaming
				  entity shall petition for and obtain its own interactive gaming certificate to
				  operate interactive gaming operations in this Commonwealth.
(g) Nothing in this section is intended to
				  prohibit interactive gaming certificate holders from entering into interactive
				  gaming operation agreements with multiple licensed interactive gaming operators
				  to offer interactive games the Board has authorized the interactive gaming
				  certificate holder to conduct.
(h)
				  Nothing in this section is intended to prohibit interactive gaming operators
				  from entering into interactive gaming operation agreements with multiple
				  interactive gaming certificate holders to offer interactive games the Board has
				  authorized the interactive gaming certificate holder to conduct.
(i) Nothing in this section is intended to
				  prohibit interactive gaming certificate holders or interactive gaming operators
				  operating an interactive gaming system on behalf of an interactive gaming
				  certificate holder from conducting interactive gaming utilizing players
				  registered in other jurisdictions with which the Commonwealth has entered into
				  a reciprocal agreement permitting interstate interactive gaming.