Illinois Administrative Code

Section 433.100 Marking of Tickets To prevent re-entry in the pari-mutuel system for duplicate cashing, each cashed or refunded ticket shall be marked to indicate that it has been cashed or refunded such as tearing a corner in a manner which will not destroy the identity of the t…

Section 433.110 Status of Outs Account The organization licensee shall provide the Pari-Mutuel Auditor, each racing day, with a computer print-out of outstanding tickets cashed during the previous racing day and, at the request of the PMA, produce, subject to the limitation in Su…

Section 433.120 Cancellation of Tickets a) Cancellation at Terminals 1) Any wager at a manned terminal with a price of $500 or less may be cancelled, at the option of the holder, without question. 2) Any wager at an unmanned terminal with a price of $250 or less may be cancelled …

Section 433.130 Records of Refunds and Cancellations In all totalizator systems, the seller/cashier shall retain and account for all refunded or cancelled tickets. The computer record of these refunded/cancelled tickets will be retained by the organization licensee, in the manner…

Section 433.140 Computer Print-Outs Each organization licensee shall make available to the PMA for inspection and review all computer printouts generated by the totalizator system and shall, upon request, supply the Pari-Mutuel Auditor with copies of such printouts.

Section 433.145 Additional Method of Calculation If any written method of calculation or check-up, in addition to the computer printouts specified in Section 433.140, is used or undertaken by the organization licensee, exact copies of all such calculations or check-ups shall be h…

Section 433.15 Purpose The Part is designed to permit the Board to perform its statutory duty to supervise the pari-mutuel wagering system, to collect the taxes prescribed in the Act and to protect the wagering public. To this end, this Part establishes clear lines of responsibil…

Section 433.20 Pari-Mutuel Audit Unit The Pari-Mutuel Audit Unit shall be supervised by the State Director of Mutuels. The Pari-Mutuel Audit Unit is hereby delegated the responsibility of representing the Board in the supervision and verification of the pari-mutuel wagering pool …

Section 433.200 No Reduction in Capacity An organization licensee shall not change a totalizator system if the change will reduce the functional capacity of the system. A decrease in functional capacity is defined as going from a cash/sell system to a sell only system.

Section 433.210 Totalizators Each organization licensee shall use ticket issuing machines, linked to a computer based totalizator system, that shall: a) record the progressive, aggregate, and final total in dollars bet in each pool and on each entry or mutuel field; b) compute th…

Section 433.220 Final Confirmation For the purpose of confirming the final record of pari-mutuel sales for each race, each organization licensee shall for each wagering pool obtain a computer printout or store on magnetic media, the following information for each ticket issuing m…

Section 433.230 Status Report Where advance wagering and or earlybird wagering is conducted, the computer printout required in Section 433.220 shall also contain a status report indicating the total dollars wagered on all subsequent pools.

Section 433.240 Locking Devices Each organization licensee shall provide, for the purpose of locking ticket issuing machines at the start of each race: a) one switch located within the stewards' stands; and b) one switch located in the tote room for use as an emergency locking de…

Section 433.25 Access to Totalizator and Pari-Mutuel Facility a) To accomplish the duties set forth herein, the Pari-Mutuel Audit Unit is given the power to enter, during normal business hours of the organization licensee of the totalizator system licensee, all rooms and faciliti…

Section 433.250 Control of Locking Devices The locking control switch referred to in Section 433.240 shall be controlled by a Board representative. This switch shall disable all ticket issuing machines from issuing tickets instantaneously. The execution of the locking control swi…

Section 433.260 Accounting for Individual Tickets For the purpose of accounting for individual tickets, each ticket shall be identified by a unique computer generated ticket number.

Section 433.270 Tickets Every issued ticket shall have printed on it: a) the name of the race track or organization licensee; b) the number of the race; c) the uniquely assigned computer generated ticket number; d) the date the ticket was issued; e) the date for which the ticket …

Section 433.280 Security for Tote Equipment Each organization licensee shall provide a security system for the facilities housing the totalizator computers when such equipment is on site. Such security system shall: a) be capable of detecting authorized and unauthorized entry thr…

Section 433.290 Access to Tote Room Each organization licensee shall authorize specific individuals, and may authorize visitors, to have access to the tote room. A list of such authorized individuals shall be maintained by the organization licensee and be made available to the PM…

Section 433.295 Fax Machine Properly operating Fax Machines shall be present in all rooms and facilities used in connection with the operation of a totalizator system. (Source: Added at 14 Ill. Reg. 20059, effective December 4, 1990)

Section 433.298 Hot-Line Telephone All totalizator system licensees shall provide hot-line telephones from their rooms to any facility used by another totalizator system licensee for purposes of conducting intertrack wagering. (Source: Added at 14 Ill. Reg. 20059, effective Decem…

Section 433.30 Work Area for Pari-Mutuel Auditors Each organization licensee shall provide a work area for use by the PMA. This work area shall: a) be located not more than 150 feet from the entrance of the tote room; b) permit unrestricted entry to the totalizator facilities, pa…

Section 433.300 General System Requirements Totalizator system licensees must meet or exceed the totalizator system features listed in Sections 433.310 through 433.490.

Section 433.310 Redundant Capabilities Totalizator systems shall have redundant capabilities and shall be defined as a master/slave configuration to ensure the comparison of individual pool totals so that no data is lost due to a processor failure.

Section 433.320 Redundant Hardware All totalizator systems must have a redundant hardware including, but not limited to, the acceptance, recording, and accounting of wagering transactions, to ensure that in normal operating circumstances a totalizator system failure will not caus…

Section 433.330 Stop Betting Command All totalizator systems shall provide a switch located in the stewards' stand and the tote room which shall disable all ticket issuing machines from accepting all bets and issuing tickets on all races for which the "stop betting" command has b…

Section 433.340 Record of Stop Betting Command All totalizator systems shall: a) identify and record on the system log file which switch issued the stop betting command; b) record the time of day that the command was issued; and c) confirm visually and audibly to the stewards tha…

Section 433.35 System Failure a) Any failure of tote equipment at any facility shall be reported immediately to the state stewards, pari-mutuel auditor and the mutuel manager for the host track involved and the general manager at all affected facilities. The totalizator system li…

Section 433.350 Odds Board Control The controls necessary to operate the order of finish on the odds board shall be located in the stewards' stand or immediately adjacent thereto and be controlled by a state steward or his designee.

Section 433.360 Odds Update a) In conjunction with the totalizator system, there shall be one or more odds boards. Approximate odds on each betting interest in the win pool shall be updated on the odds board at intervals of not more than 60 seconds. b) All totalizator systems sha…

Section 433.370 Retention of Racing Program Data All totalizator systems must store racing program data on disk or other storage devices with the capability to transfer the data to hard copy in readable format. Such information shall be stored for a period of six months.

Section 433.380 Control Access to Tote Computer Equipment Security/safeguard mechanisms must be installed by the tote system licensee to prevent unauthorized access to totalizator computer equipment. Such security shall be capable of detecting authorized and unauthorized entry th…

Section 433.390 Software All totalizator systems must have the necessary software to create, read, and verify the integrity of the data on the magnetic tapes. Each tape shall be labeled separately for each racing program. The label shall include organization licensee name, progra…

Section 433.400 Provide Summary All totalizator system shall be able to produce and provide the Board: a) subject to the time limitation in Section 433.370, a log file which can recreate the program and produce hard copy; b) a report which summarizes each racing program's total w…

Section 433.410 Unique Ticket Number All totalizator systems shall assign a unique ticket number to each ticket issued. The unique ticket number shall be printed on the ticket at the time of issue by the ticket issuing machine and shall be recorded in the computer.

Section 433.420 Uncashed Tickets All totalizator systems shall retain within the computer system ticket numbers of all outstanding tickets. These ticket numbers shall be retained in a computer data file protected by the security system. All access to such file outside of normal o…

Section 433.430 Computer Produced Reports All totalizator systems shall print on all computer produced reports: the tote software's version number, date of execution, time of day executed, and page number. The page numbering shall be sequential from the first page through the las…

Section 433.440 Magnetic Log Files All totalizator systems shall use the magnetic log files as input for the accounting reports produced in the cashier accounting function.

Section 433.45 Scientific Advancements a) An organization licensee, intertrack wagering licensee, intertrack wagering location licensee or totalizator system licensee may petition the Board for permission to effect technological improvements, provided: 1) a written application is…

Section 433.450 Security Sub-System Totalizator program operation shall be under the control of a software security sub-system. a) This sub-system shall have the ability to validate used sign-on data entered through a T.I.M. and use table lock-up techniques to determine which fun…

Section 433.455 Access to Sub-Systems The operating and or security sub-system shall be accessible from no more than two terminals at any one point in time. These terminals shall be located in the tote room and access to these sub-systems shall require pass word entry prior to ex…

Section 433.458 Emergency Power Source Each tote system licensee shall provide an emergency or alternate system of electrical supply capable of providing enough power to operate the central processing units where data which has been accepted is stored.

Section 433.460 Power Fluctuations All totalizator systems shall provide the hardware, i.e., voltage regulators, isolation transformers, to minimize the effects of a power fluctuation on the totalizator system. This hardware, insofar as possible, shall maintain power into the com…

Section 433.470 Two Independent Sets of Pool Totals All totalizator systems shall have the capability to maintain at least two independent sets of pool totals and compare them at least every 60 seconds. An entry to the system logs shall be produced at any time a difference in fin…

Section 433.480 Loss of Communications Reports All totalizator systems shall detect and write to the system log file and produce a hard copy report of lost communication with hardware peripheral devices including disc drives, printers, consoles, ticket issuing machines, and any o…

Section 433.490 Cancellations Where totalizator systems allow issued tickets to be cancelled such cancellations must occur within the provisions of Section 433.120.

Section 433.50 Filings Whenever this Part requires a document to be filed with the Board, the Executive Director of the Board, the State Director of Mutuels, or the Pari-Mutuel Audit Unit, such document shall be filed at the Board's central office at 100 W. Randolph St., Suite 11…