Gaming

(a) The card game release key to drop either the drop box or the card game jackpot award drop box can be the same. The key to access the contents of either the drop box or the card game jackpot award drop box must be keyed separately. The card game release key for the drop box an…

(a) Keys to locked box tickets must be maintained by a department independent of the keno function. (b) An employee independent of the Keno department is required to accompany locked box keys to the keno area and observe repairs or refills each time locked boxes are accessed. (c)…

(a) Each corporate licensee shall keep on the premises of its gaming establishment the following documents pertaining to the corporation:1. A certified copy of the articles of incorporation and any amendments; 2. A copy of the bylaws and any amendments; 3. A copy of the certifica…

(a). Each licensee shall prepare financial statements covering all financial activities of the licensee's establishments for each business year. If the licensee or a person controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the licensee owns or operates room, food, or bever…

Each licensee shall provide the State Gaming Commission, upon its request, with the records required to be maintained by these regulations. Unless the Executive Director approves or requires otherwise in writing, each licensee shall retain all such records within Mississippi for …

Gross revenue includes cash received as winnings, cash received for credit extended to a patron for purposes of gaming, and compensation received for conducting any game in which the licensee is not party to a wager, less cash paid out as losses to patrons or amounts paid to purc…

The applicant for a state gaming license is required to pay all or any part of the fees and costs of investigation of such applicant as may be determined by the Executive Director of the Gaming Commission. These costs shall be made payable to the Mississippi Gaming Commission wit…

(a). Each licensee shall establish administrative and accounting procedures for the purpose of exercising effective control over the licensee's internal fiscal affairs. Minimum procedures for adoption by each licensee shall include, but are not limited to, and are designed to rea…

(a). Each licensee shall place on file with the Commission the names of all persons authorized to enter the cashier's cage (cage access list), those who possess the combination or keys to the locks securing the entrance to the cage and those who possess the ability to operate the…

(a). All games shall be conducted only with the use of chips or approved tokens or other instrumentalities which have been approved by the Executive Director, or with lawful currency or coinage of the United States of America. All table game payout by licensees shall be made in t…

(a) The Executive Director may, at his discretion, have an agent present at the count. Drop boxes must be removed and counted on a schedule approved by the Commission. Emergency drops will require a secondary written notification to the Commission and permanent drop schedule chan…

The drop supervisor or Security must notify Surveillance when the drop is to begin in order that Surveillance may monitor the activities. Surveillance and Security must monitor at all times the removal and placement of the drop boxes from the slot machines onto the drop carts. Su…

The work schedules of soft count personnel must be regularly rotated and their functions regularly rotated. Rotation shall be such that the count team is not consistently the same three individuals for more than four days per week. All doors are to be locked and personnel are not…

(a) The weigh scale shall be tested with varying weights and compared to a predetermined weight amount prior to the count to ensure the scale is properly calibrated. The metered count machine used to wrap and/or bag the tokens/coins shall also be tested prior to the actual count …

(a) The calibration module of the weigh scale is to be sealed at all times by a seal of such a nature to prevent tampering (e.g. metal strip with prenumbered labels, lock and key, password protected, etc.). A person independent of the cage, vault and slot departments is required …

The Mississippi Gaming Control Act of 1990 requires the Gaming Commission to prescribe minimum procedures for adoption by each licensee in order to exercise effective control over the internal fiscal affairs of the licensee. The following sections of this regulation apply to all …

All fills slips and credit slips shall be serially numbered forms and shall be purchased in triplicate in a continuous series utilizing the property identification logo, so that no gaming establishment may ever utilize the same documents. Only one series of each type may be used …

A request for fill shall be prepared by a table games supervisor. The request shall be a two-part form, and access to the request shall, prior to use be restricted to authorized users. All fill slips requesting chips or money must be prepared at the time a fill is made and must b…

A request for credit shall be prepared by a casino supervisor to authorize the preparation of a credit slip for the removal of gaming chips from gaming tables to the cashier's cage. The access to this form shall, prior to use, be restricted to casino supervisors. The signature of…

At the end of each day, or after each shift if the drop boxes are collected by shift, or whenever gaming activity at a table is concluded, the gaming chips remaining at the gaming table shall be counted by the dealer or boxman assigned to the gaming table and observed by a casino…

The following sections are the minimum procedures or standards, prescribed by the Executive Director for adoption by each licensee and which apply to slot machines, prescribed in order to exercise effective control over the internal fiscal affairs of the licensee and to assure th…

(a) Whenever a patron wins a jackpot that is not totally and automatically paid directly from the slot machine, a jackpot payout slip shall be prepared. Whenever a Slot Attendant or Slot Supervisor requests a hopper fill, a hopper fill slip shall be prepared. (b) When voiding a j…

(a) Payouts for jackpots must be authorized by a Slot Attendant or a Slot Supervisor actually observing the jackpot combination on the machine. (b) The information which shall be included on every jackpot payout slip and in all stored data for each jackpot payout is the:1. casino…

(a) Hopper fills for slot machines must be authorized by a Slot Attendant or Slot Supervisor. (b) The information which shall be included on every hopper fill slip and in all stored data for each hopper fill to be distributed is the:1. casino name and location; 2. number of the s…

(a) The reserve fill cabinet (compartment) is a secured area, separately keyed from the drop cabinet, for storing reserve fill bags. No more than two fills shall be in the compartment at any given time. Compartment fill procedures are not allowed for manual and system overrides. …

(a) Every licensees written system of internal controls shall include procedures that will ensure that all gaming devices are accurately communicating all activity and inactivity of the gaming devices with the computer monitoring system, as required by Mississippi Gaming Commissi…

(a) Slot Machine Wagering Vouchers are bar coded vouchers created through a cashless wagering system which allows collective hardware, software, communications technology, and other associated equipment to facilitate wagering. The bar coded voucher can be redeemed at the casino c…

(a) Maintenance of the slot machine computer data files shall be performed by the Accounting department. Alternatively, maintenance of the theoretical hold percentage for each slot machine may be performed by slot supervisory employees if sufficient documentation is generated and…

(a) A gaming device must exhibit total immunity to human body electrostatic discharges on all player-exposed areas. For purposes of this standard, a human body discharge is considered to be an electrical potential of not greater than 20,000 volts DC discharged through a network w…

All gaming devices which offer a bonus game or extended feature which requires player selection or interaction are prohibited from automatically initiating these features unless the gaming device meets the requirements of (1) or (2) and explains the mechanism for auto-initiation …

(a). Given a physical reel strip of length L units containing N physical stops, each blank space must occupy a minimum of (L/N)*0.4 units. These blank symbols must be completely free of any portion of any adjacent symbol. (b). All non-blank and blank symbols must be centered in t…

(a). A gaming device must not present a mechanical, electrical or fire hazard when used in its intended mode of operation. (b). The power supply used in a gaming device must be designed to minimize leakage current in the event of intentional or inadvertent disconnection of the AC…

(a). Coin (or token) acceptors must be designed to accept designated coins or tokens and reject others. The coin receiver on a gaming device must be designed in a manner that minimizes the potential for use of cheating methods such as slugging, stringing or spooning. (b). Gaming …

(a) A wagering instrument inserted into a gaming device that is less in amount than that gaming devices smallest denomination shall:1. Cause that gaming device to immediately reject the wagering instrument if that gaming device does not have an odd cents meter; or 2. Allow for th…

The hopper mechanism on gaming devices must be designed to detect jammed coins, extra coins paid out, hopper runaways, and hopper empty conditions. The device control program must monitor the hopper mechanism for these error conditions in all active game states that do not indica…

Printer mechanisms on gaming devices must be designed to detect low paper, paper out, presentation error, printer failure and paper jam conditions. (Adopted: 09/15/2004.) Notes 13 Miss. Code. R. 8-2.5 Miss. Code Ann. §§ 75-76-99, 75-76-33

A gaming device must resist forced illegal entry and must retain evidence of any entry until properly cleared or until a new play is initiated. A gaming device must have a protective cover over the circuit boards that contain programs and circuitry used in the random selection pr…

(a) Any gaming device which is capable of bidirectional communication with internal or external associated equipment must utilize a communication protocol which insures that erroneous data or signals will not adversely affect the operation of the device. (b) Any new or modified g…

(a) Gaming devices must detect and display the following conditions during idle states or game play. These conditions may be automatically cleared by the gaming device upon completion of a new play sequence.1. Power reset. 2. Door open. 3. Door just closed. 4. Inappropriate coin-…

(a) All must employ a mechanism approved by the Executive Director to verify control programs code and data. The mechanism used must detect at least 99.99 percent of all possible media failures. If these programs and data are to operate out of volatile RAM, the program that loads…

(a). The theoretical payback percentage of a gaming device must not be capable of being changed without making a hardware or software change in the device. For purposes of this standard, the addition of an attendant paid bonus, a progressive jackpot, or a change in rate of progre…

Inappropriate coins-in must be returned to the player by activation of the hopper or credited toward the next play of the gaming device. The gaming device control program must be capable of handling rapidly fed coins so that the occurrences of inappropriate coins-in are minimized…

(a). All coins or tokens paid from the hopper mechanism must be properly accounted for by the gaming device, including those paid as extra coins during a hopper malfunction. (b). Hopper pay limits must be designed to permit compliance by gaming establishments with published IRS R…

(a) For those gaming devices which are already approved as of the effective date of this regulation, this Section (d) shall apply for a period of one year after the effective date of this regulation. (b) All gaming devices must be equipped with electronic digital storage meters o…

(a). All gaming devices must be equipped with electronic digital storage meters of at least 10 digits capable of displaying the information listed in this section on demand. These meters, listed below, must accumulate the following information in units equal to the denomination o…

(a) For those gaming devices which are already approved as of the effective date of this regulation, this Section (f) shall apply for a period of one year after the effective date of this regulation. (b) Collectible credits may be accumulated from wins or from approved currency a…

(a) Cashable credits may be accumulated from wins, approved currency acceptors, electronic funds transfers, wagering account transfers, or any other transfers of cashable credits. Cashable credits may be accumulated directly from coin or token acceptance if the gaming device uses…