Title PML, Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law

§ 1321-i. Hearings. The process used for hearings shall be the same process established under section thirteen hundred nineteen of this article.

§ 1321-j. Siting evaluation. In determining whether an applicant shall be eligible for a gaming facility license, the board shall evaluate and make a determination of how each applicant proposes to advance the following objectives with consideration given to the differences betw…

§ 1321-k. Zoning. 1. Notwithstanding section thirteen hundred sixty-six of this article, all gaming facilities licensed pursuant to this title shall comply with all relevant city, county, town, or village land use or zoning ordinances, rules, or regulations if applicable. 2. (a)…

§ 1322. General provisions. 1. It shall be the affirmative responsibility of each applicant or licensee to establish by clear and convincing evidence its individual qualifications, and for a gaming facility license the qualifications of each person who is required to be qualifie…

§ 1323. Key employee licenses. 1. No licensee or a holding or intermediary company of a licensee may employ any person as a casino key employee unless the person is the holder of a valid casino key employee license issued by the commission. 2. Each applicant for a casino key emp…

§ 1324. Gaming employee registration. 1. No person may commence employment as a gaming employee unless such person has a valid registration on file with the commission, which registration shall be prepared and filed in accordance with the regulations promulgated hereunder. 2. A …

§ 1325. Approval, denial and renewal of employee licenses and registrations. 1. Upon the filing of an application for a casino key employee license or gaming employee registration required by this article and after submission of such supplemental information as the commission ma…

§ 1326. Licensing of vendor enterprises. 1. Any business to be conducted with a gaming facility applicant or licensee by a vendor offering goods or services which directly relate to gaming activity, including gaming equipment manufacturers, suppliers, repairers, and independent …

§ 1327. Duration and renewal of vendor registration. 1. A casino vendor registration shall be effective upon issuance, and shall remain valid for five years unless revoked, suspended, voided by law, limited, or otherwise restricted by the commission. Such registrations may be re…

§ 1328. Junket operator licensing. 1. No junkets may be organized or permitted except in accordance with the provisions of this article. No person may act as a junket representative or junket enterprise except in accordance with this section. 2. A junket representative employed …

§ 1329. Lobbyist registration. 1. For purposes of this section, the terms "lobbyist", "lobbying", "lobbying activities" and "client" shall have the same meaning as those terms are defined by section one-c of the legislative law. 2. In addition to any other registration and repor…

§ 133. Responsibilities of the commission and its officers and employees. 1. Every commission officer or employee shall report promptly to the gaming inspector general any information concerning corruption, fraud, criminal activity, conflicts of interest or abuse by another stat…

§ 1330. Registration of labor organizations. 1. Each labor organization, union or affiliate seeking to represent employees who are employed in a gaming facility by a gaming facility licensee shall register with the commission biennially, and shall disclose such information as th…

§ 1330-a. Casino gaming expenditures. 1. (a) In addition to any other registration or reporting required by law, any entity licensed under section sixteen hundred seventeen-a of the tax law, or that possesses a pari-mutuel wagering license or franchise awarded pursuant to articl…

§ 1331. Operation certificate. 1. Notwithstanding the issuance of a license therefor, no gaming facility may be opened or remain open to the public, and no gaming activity, except for test purposes, may be conducted therein, unless and until a valid operation certificate has bee…

§ 1332. Age for gaming participation. 1. No person under the age at which a person is authorized to purchase and consume alcoholic beverages shall enter, or wager in, a licensed gaming facility; provided, however, that such a person may enter a gaming facility by way of passage …

§ 1333. Hours of operation. 1. Each gaming facility licensed pursuant to this article shall be permitted to operate twenty-four hours a day unless otherwise directed by the commission. 2. A gaming facility licensee shall file with the commission a schedule of hours prior to the …

§ 1334. Internal controls. 1. Each applicant for a gaming facility license shall create, maintain, and file with the commission a description of its internal procedures and administrative and accounting controls for gaming operations that conform to commission regulations and pr…

§ 1335. Games and gaming equipment. 1. This article shall not be construed to permit any gaming except the conduct of authorized games in a casino in accordance with this article and the regulations promulgated hereunder. 2. Gaming equipment shall not be possessed, maintained or…

§ 1336. Certain wagering prohibited. 1. It shall be unlawful for any casino key employee licensee to wager in any gaming facility in this state. 2. It shall be unlawful for any other employee of a gaming facility licensee who, in the judgment of the commission, is directly invol…

§ 1337. Gratuities. 1. It shall be unlawful for any casino key employee or boxman, floorman, or any other gaming employee who shall serve in a supervisory position to solicit or accept, and for any other gaming employee to solicit, any tip or gratuity from any player or patron a…

§ 1338. Limitation on certain financial access. In order to protect the public interest, the commission shall adopt regulations that include provisions that: 1. limit the number and location of and maximum withdrawal amounts from automated teller machines; 2. prohibit authorized…

§ 1339. Credit. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, no gaming facility licensee or any person licensed under this article, and no person acting on behalf of or under any arrangement with a gaming facility licensee or other person licensed under this article, shall: …

§ 134. Transfer of employees. Upon the transfer of functions, powers, duties and obligations to the office of the state inspector general pursuant to this article, provision shall be made for the transfer of all gaming inspector general employees from within the gaming commissio…

§ 1340. Alcoholic beverages. 1. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the authority to grant any license or permit for, or to permit or prohibit the presence of, alcoholic beverages in, on, or about any premises licensed by the commission as part of a gaming facility, or in, …

§ 1341. Licensee leases and contracts. 1. Unless otherwise provided in this subdivision, no agreement shall be lawful which provides for the payment, however defined, of any direct or indirect interest, percentage or share of: any money or property gambled at a gaming facility; …

§ 1342. Required exclusion of certain persons. 1. The commission shall, by regulation, provide for the establishment of a list of persons who are to be excluded or ejected from any licensed gaming facility. Such provisions shall define the standards for exclusion, and shall incl…

§ 1343. Exclusion, ejection of certain persons. 1. A gaming facility licensee may exclude or eject from its gaming facility any person who is known to it to have been convicted of a crime or disorderly conduct committed in or on the premises of any gaming facility. 2. Nothing in…

§ 1344. List of persons self-excluded from gaming activities. 1. The commission shall provide by regulation for the establishment of a list of persons self-excluded from gaming activities at all licensed gaming facilities. Any person may request placement on the list of self-exc…

§ 1345. Excluded person; forfeiture of winnings; other sanctions. 1. A person who is prohibited from gaming in a licensed gaming facility by any order of the executive director, commission or court of competent jurisdiction, including any person on the self-exclusion list pursua…

§ 1346. Labor peace agreements for certain facilities. 1. As used in this section: (a) "Gaming facility" means any gaming facility licensed pursuant to this article or a video lottery gaming facility as may be authorized by paragraph three of subdivision (a) of section one thous…

§ 1348. Machine and table fees. In addition to any other tax or fee imposed by this article, there shall be imposed an annual license fee of five hundred dollars for each slot machine and table approved by the commission for use by a gaming licensee at a gaming facility located …

§ 1349. Regulatory investigatory fees. The commission may establish fees for any investigation into a violation of this article or regulation promulgated hereunder by a gaming facility licensee to be paid by the gaming facility licensee including, but not limited to, billable ho…

§ 135. Transfer of records. All books, papers, records and property of the gaming inspector general within the gaming commission with respect to the functions, powers, duties and obligations transferred by section one hundred thirty of this article, are to be delivered to the ap…

§ 1350. Additional regulatory costs. 1. Any remaining costs of the commission necessary to maintain regulatory control over gaming facilities that are not covered by the fees set forth in section one thousand three hundred forty-nine of this title; any other fees assessed under …

§ 1351. Tax on gaming revenues; permissive supplemental fee. * 1. (a) For a gaming facility in zone two, there is hereby imposed a tax on gross gaming revenues. The amount of such tax imposed shall be as follows; provided, however, should a licensee have agreed within its applic…

§ 1352. Commercial gaming revenue fund. 1. (a) The commission shall pay into an account, to be known as the commercial gaming revenue fund as established pursuant to section ninety-seven-nnnn of the state finance law, under the joint custody of the comptroller and the commission…

§ 1353. Determination of tax liability. The commission may perform audits of the books and records of a gaming facility licensee, at such times and intervals as it deems appropriate, for the purpose of determining the sufficiency of tax or fee payments. If a return or deposit re…

§ 1354. Unclaimed funds. Unclaimed funds, cash and prizes shall be retained by the gaming facility licensee for the person entitled to the funds, cash or prize for one year after the game in which the funds, cash or prize was won. If no claim is made for the funds, cash or prize…

§ 1355. Racing support payments. 1. If an applicant who possesses a pari-mutuel wagering franchise or license awarded pursuant to article two or three of this chapter, or who possessed in two thousand thirteen a franchise or a license awarded pursuant to article two or three of …

§ 136. Pari-mutuel wagering tax. 1. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the excise tax imposed on any racing association or corporation or regional off-track betting corporation, authorized to conduct pari-mutuel wagering shall be seven-tenths of one percent (0.7%) of all m…

§ 1362. Prevention and outreach efforts. 1. Each gaming facility licensee, management company, and holding company involved in the application and ownership or management of a gaming facility shall provide to the commission, as applicable, an applicant's problem gambling plan. A…

§ 1363. Advertising restrictions. 1. As used in this section: (a) "advertisement" shall mean any notice or communication to the public or any information concerning the gaming-related business of a gaming facility licensee or applicant or a mobile sports wagering licensee as def…

§ 1364. Smoking prohibited. Smoking shall not be permitted, and no person shall smoke in the indoor areas of facilities licensed pursuant to this article, except that the provisions of section one thousand three hundred ninety-nine-q of the public health law shall be applicable …

§ 1365. Conservatorship. 1. Upon revocation or suspension of a gaming facility license or upon the failure or refusal to renew a gaming facility license, the commission may appoint a conservator to temporarily manage and operate the business of the gaming licensee relating to th…

§ 1366. Zoning. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, gaming authorized at a location pursuant to this article shall be deemed an approved activity for such location under the relevant city, county, town, or village land use or zoning ordinances, rules, or regulatio…

§ 1367. Sports wagering. 1. As used in this section and in section thirteen hundred sixty-seven-a of this title: (a) "Platform provider" means an entity selected by the commission to conduct mobile sports wagering pursuant to a competitive bidding process; (b) "Authorized sports…

§ 1367-a. Mobile sports wagering. 1. (a) Except as provided in this subdivision, the terms in this section shall have the same meanings as such terms are defined in subdivision one of section thirteen hundred sixty-seven of this title. (b) "Mobile sports wagering operator" for p…

§ 1400. Legislative findings and purpose. 1. The legislature hereby finds and declares that: (a) Interactive fantasy sports are not games of chance because they consist of fantasy or simulation sports games or contests in which the fantasy or simulation sports teams are selected…

§ 1401. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "Authorized player" shall mean an individual located in New York state, who is not a prohibited player, that participates in an interactive fantasy sports contest offered by a…