Kan. Admin. Regs. § 112-108-57

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 32, August 8, 2024

Section 112-108-57 - Progressive table games

(a) A facility manager shall place a table game that offers a progressive jackpot only if the executive director has approved the following:

(1) The initial and reset amounts for the progressive meters;

(2) the system for controlling the keys and applicable logical access controls to the table games;

(3) the proposed rate of progression for each jackpot;

(4) the proposed limit for progressive jackpot, if any; and

(5) the calculated probability of winning each progressive jackpot. The probability shall not exceed 50 million to one.

(b) Progressive meters shall not be reset or reduced unless one of the following occurs:

(1) The amount indicated has been actually paid to a winning patron.

(2) The progressive jackpot amount won by the patron has been recorded in accordance with a system of internal controls approved by the commission.

(3) The progressive jackpot has been transferred to another progressive table game and the transfer has been approved by the executive director.

(4) The change is necessitated by a meter malfunction, and the commission has been notified of the resetting in writing.

(c) A facility manager shall not alter the odds of winning a progressive jackpot unless the jackpot has been transferred to another progressive table game in accordance with subsection (d).

(d) A facility manager may limit, transfer, or terminate a progressive jackpot or progressive game offered on the gaming floor under any of the following circumstances:

(1) A progressive jackpot may be limited if the payout limit is greater than the payout amount displayed on the progressive jackpot meter to patrons. The facility manager shall provide notice to the commission of the imposition or modification of a payout limit on a progressive meter concurrent with the setting of the payout limit.

(2) A progressive jackpot game may be terminated concurrent with the winning of the progressive jackpot if the progressive controller was configured to automatically establish a fixed reset amount with no progressive increment.

(3) A progressive jackpot amount may be transferred from a gaming floor. The facility manager shall give notice to the commission of its intent to transfer the progressive jackpot at least 30 days before the anticipated transfer, and the facility manager shall conspicuously display the facility manager's intent to transfer the progressive jackpot on the front of each affected table game for at least 30 days. To be eligible for transfer, the progressive jackpot shall be transferred in its entirety and shall meet one of the following conditions:

(A) Be transferred to the progressive meter for a table game with the same or greater probability of winning the progressive jackpot, with the same or lower wager requirement to be eligible to win the progressive jackpot, and with the same type of progressive jackpot;

(B) be transferred to the progressive meters of two separate table games if each table game progressive system to which the jackpot is transferred individually meets the requirements of paragraph (d)(3)(A); or

(C) be transferred to the most similar table game progressive system that is available if approved by the executive director.

(4) A progressive jackpot on a stand-alone progressive table game system may be removed from a gaming floor if notice of intent to remove the progressive jackpot meets the following conditions:

(A) The notice is conspicuously displayed on the front of each table game for at least 30 days.

(B) The notice of intent is provided in writing to the commission at least 30 days before the removal of the progressive jackpot.

(e) The amount indicated on the progressive meter on each table game governed by subsection (a) shall be recorded by the facility manager's accounting department on a progressive electronic gaming summary report at least once every seven calendar days. Each report shall be signed by the person preparing the report. If the report is not prepared by the accounting department, the progressive electronic gaming summary report shall be forwarded to the accounting department at the end of the gaming day on which the report is prepared. An employee of the accounting department shall be responsible for calculating the correct amount that should appear on a progressive meter. If an adjustment to the progressive meters is necessary, the adjustment shall be made by a member of the EGM department as follows:

(1) Supporting documentation shall be maintained to explain any addition or reduction in the registered amount on the progressive meter. The documentation shall include the date, the asset number of the table game, the amount of the adjustment, and the signatures of the accounting department member requesting the adjustment and the EGM department member making the adjustment.

(2) The adjustment shall be effectuated within 48 hours of the meter reading.

(f) Except as otherwise authorized by this regulation, each table game offering a progressive jackpot that is removed from the gaming floor shall be returned to or replaced on the gaming floor within five gaming days. The amount on the progressive meter on the returned or replacement table game shall not be less than the amount on the progressive meter at the time of removal, unless the amount was transferred or paid out in accordance with these regulations. If a table game offering a progressive jackpot is not returned or replaced, any progressive meter amount at the time of removal shall, within five days of the table game's removal, be added to a table game offering a progressive jackpot approved by the executive director. The table game shall offer the same or greater probability of winning the progressive jackpot and shall require the same or lower denomination of currency to play that was in use on the table game that was removed.

(g) If a table game is located adjacent to a table game offering a progressive jackpot, the facility manager shall conspicuously display on the table game a notice advising patrons that the table game is not participating in the progressive jackpot of the adjacent table game.

Kan. Admin. Regs. § 112-108-57

Authorized by K.S.A. 2008 Supp. 74-8772; implementing K.S.A. 2008 Supp. 74-8752 and 74-8772; effective Jan. 8, 2010.