South Dakota Administrative Rules › Title 20 - PUBLIC SAFETY › Article 20:18 - GAMING COMMISSION - DEADWOOD GAMBLING › Chapter 20:18:01 - General Provisions › Section 20:18:01:01 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 51, page 10, July 15, 2024
In addition to the terms in SDCL
				  42-7B-4, terms used in this
				  article mean:
(1) "Association," a
				body of persons united and acting together without a corporate
				charter;
(2) "Background
				investigation," the security, medical, and financial check of an applicant for
				a license;
(3) "Building," a common
				structure that is built or constructed or any piece of work artificially built
				up or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner;
(4) "Bum," the dealer's act of removing the
				first card after the shuffle and placing it in the discards; also, the act of
				placing an active card in the discards;
(5) "Common retail premises," two or more
				buildings that are adjacent, share a common or party wall, have interior
				access, share identical building ownership or leasehold interest, share a
				common operator or route operator, and share a common cage that if routed is
				also used as the route operator's cage;
(6) "Controller," an electronic device that
				acts as a relay between a slot machine signal and the overhead progression
				sign;
(7) "Costs," sums of money to
				be paid to the commission for testing of slot machines, devices, and
				equipment;
(8) "Drop," the total
				amount of money, chips, tokens, coupons, and wagering vouchers removed from the
				drop boxes;
(9) "Drop box," for
				blackjack, house banked poker, craps, roulette, keno, and poker games, a locked
				container permanently marked with the game and a number corresponding to a
				permanent number on the table and for a slot machine, the bill acceptor box
				located within the machine;
(10)
				"Financial institution," a bank, savings and loan association, credit union,
				trust company, or other similar entity chartered by the United States, a state,
				or a territory or commonwealth of the United States;
(11) "Gaming contract," an agreement in which
				a person does business with or on the premises of an entity licensed under this
				article;
(12) "House Banked Table
				Game," any authorized game of blackjack. poker, craps, roulette, or keno where
				the player wagers against the licensee:
(13) "Imprest bank," an area on a poker table
				in which a predetermined dollar amount of chips, tokens, or cash is
				kept;
(14) "Jackpot verification
				mode," the period of time between the progressive jackpot activation of a
				progressive slot machine and the resetting of the device which caused its
				activation;
(15) "Lammer" or
				"lammer button," a chip-like implement with a numeral;
(16) "Link," one or more progressive slot
				machines that are connected to a progressive controller and may be played in
				order to achieve the stated progressive amount;
(17) "Matched play," in relation to
				promotional items, the use of a coupon that is issued to a patron by an
				establishment for play that must be accompanied by a bet;
(18) "Moral turpitude," an act done contrary
				to honesty and good morals; it is an act of baseness, vileness, or depravity in
				the private and social duties which a person owes to other persons or to
				society in general;
(19)
				"Non-cashable promo play," any credits that are not redeemable for cash and
				awarded to the player at the discretion of the licensee. Credits are issued and
				tracked through the use of a slot management system that entitles the player to
				participate in gambling on the licensee's slot machines and table
				games;
(20) "Normal mode," the mode
				of a progressive slot machine at all times other than when it is in the jackpot
				verification mode;
(21) "Pit boss,"
				the person responsible to direct and supervise personnel where required and
				observe table action, review irregularities, arbitrate customer disputes
				arising from table play, maintain proper table loads, and oversee or count
				table inventory at the beginning and ending of shifts;
(22) "Poker podium," a stationary stand or
				counter in a poker room which contains a predetermined amount of chips, tokens,
				and currency;
(23) "Progressive
				controller," the hardware and software that controls all communications among
				the machines within a progressive slot machine link and its associated
				progressive meter;
(24) "Proposition
				player," a person paid a fixed sum by the licensee for the specific purpose of
				playing in a card game, who uses personal funds and who retains the winnings
				and absorbs the losses;
(25) 
				"Shill," a player provided by or employed by a retail licensee who only bets
				money provided by the retail licensee;
(26) "Substantial interest," at least as
				large an interest in a corporation, partnership, or association as that of any
				other shareholder, partner, or principal;
(27) "Support licensee," a person licensed by
				the commission who is working or who is about to work for an operator or
				retailer as a card dealer, slot machine mechanic, slot machine technician,
				floor supervisor, cashier, shill, proposition player, slot route runner, pit
				boss, a member of the count team, computer monitor for progressive links, or in
				any other way directly related to gaming.
General Authority:
SDCL
					 42-7B-7.
Law Implemented:
SDCL
					 42-7B-7,
					 42-7B-11(11)(13).
Pit boss requirement, §
					 20:18:12.01:17.