Pennsylvania Code › Title 58 - RECREATION › Part VII - GAMING CONTROL BOARD › Subpart C - Slot Machine Licensing › Chapter 441a - SLOT MACHINE LICENSES › Section 441a.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
For purposes of this subpart, the following words and terms
					 have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
					 otherwise:
Amenities
-Ancillary activities, services
					 or facilities in which a registered guest or the transient public, in return
					 for non-de minimis consideration, may participate at a resort hotel, including,
					 but not limited to:
(i) Sports and
				  recreational activities and facilities such as a golf course, golf driving
				  range, tennis court or swimming pool.
(ii) Health spa.
(iii) Convention, meeting and banquet
				  facilities.
(iv) Entertainment
				  facilities.
(v) Restaurant
				  facilities.
Applicant
-A person who applies to the
					 Board to receive a slot machine license as defined in this section.
Developer
-A person engaged by a slot
					 machine applicant or licensee to construct a proposed licensed facility or to
					 otherwise make land or buildings suitable for use as a licensed
					 facility.
Guest rooms under common ownership
-A room
					 or group of rooms, including timeshare units, that are owned by a
					 well-established resort hotel and that are available for rental.
Initial plan of development
-The slot
					 machine licensee's financing, construction schedule, comprehensive design plan
					 and projected expenditure for the licensed facility as described by the
					 licensee in its application and presented at the licensee's initial suitability
					 hearing before the Board.
Licensing hearing
-A hearing before the
					 Board in which an applicant for a slot machine license will have an opportunity
					 to present to the Board:
(i) Evidence
				  concerning its eligibility for a license.
(ii) Evidence concerning its suitability for
				  a license.
(iii) Evidence of how
				  its proposed facility and operation addresses the criteria identified in
				  section 1325(c) of the act (relating to license or permit issuance).
(iv) For applicants seeking licensure under
				  section 1304 of the act (relating to Category 2 slot machine license), evidence
				  which sets forth a comparison between the applicant and other applicants within
				  the same category of licensure on the standards and criteria in the
				  act.
Modified plan of development
-An
					 alteration to a slot machine licensee's initial plan of development.
Non-de minimis consideration
-A payment of
					 fair market value of at least $10 per patron paid to the resort hotel for use
					 of one or more amenities.
Organization
-Legal business entities that
					 are under common ownership or control, including, but not limited to,
					 affiliates, subsidiaries, intermediaries and holding companies.
Patron of amenities
-An individual who is
					 a registered attendee of a convention, meeting or banquet event or a
					 participant in a sport or recreational event or any other social, cultural or
					 business event held at a resort hotel or who participates in one or more of the
					 amenities provided to registered guests of the resort hotel.
Slot machine license
-A Category 1 slot
					 machine license under section 1302 of the act (relating to Category 1 slot
					 machine license), a Conditional Category 1 slot machine license under section
					 1315 of the act (relating to conditional Category 1 licenses), a Category 2
					 slot machine license under section 1304 of the act (relating to Category 2 slot
					 machine license) and a Category 3 slot machine license under section 1305 of
					 the act (relating to Category 3 slot machine license).
Well-established resort hotel
-A resort
					 hotel having at least 275 guest rooms under common ownership at the time of
					 application for a Category 3 slot machine license and having substantial
					 year-round recreational guest amenities.
The provisions of this § 441a.1 amended under
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						Pa.C.S. §§
													1202(b)(9)-(23), 1205,
						1206(f) and (g), 1207(1) and (2), 1208(1)(iii), 1209(b), 1212, 1213, 13A11,
						13A12-13A14, 13A15 and 1802 and Chapter 13.
This section cited in 58 Pa. Code §
												441a.20a (relating to changes to a
						slot machine licensee's initial or modified plan of
						development).