N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 9 § 5316.1

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 45, November 2, 2024

Section 5316.1 - Cashiers' cage; satellite cages; standards

(a) Each gaming facility shall have on or immediately adjacent to the gaming floor a physical structure known as a cashiers' cage to house the cashiers and to serve as the central location in the gaming facility for:

(1) the custody of the cage inventory, comprising currency and forms, documents and records normally associated with the operation of a cage;

(2) the receipt, distribution and redemption of vouchers in conformity with this Subchapter; and

(3) such other functions normally associated with the operation of a cashiers' cage.

(b) The cage shall be designed and constructed to provide maximum security for the materials housed and the activities performed therein. Such design and construction shall include:

(1) manually triggered silent alarm systems for the cage, the ancillary office space of the cage and any related gaming facility vault, which systems shall be connected directly to the monitoring rooms of the closed-circuit television system and the gaming security department office; and

(2) a double-door entry and exit system that will not permit a person to pass through the second door until the first door is securely locked.

(i) The first door of the double-door entry and exit system adjacent to the gaming floor shall be controlled by security or surveillance personnel. The second door of the double-door entry and exit system shall be controlled by cage personnel.

(ii) The double-door entry and exit system shall have closed-circuit television coverage that shall be monitored during all hours of operation by the gaming surveillance department.

(iii) Any entrance to the cage that is not a double-door entry and exit system shall be an alarmed emergency exit door only.

The gaming facility shall identify in such facility's internal control procedures which department will be responsible for controlling these points of access and shall include procedures for managing the security of these points of access.

(c) Each gaming facility may also have one or more satellite cages and/or kiosks separate and apart from the cashiers' cage but adjacent to areas of gaming operation, established to maximize security, efficient operations or player convenience and comfort and designed and constructed in accordance with this Part. Subject to commission approval, satellite cages and/or kiosks may perform any or all of the functions of the cashiers' cage. The functions that are conducted in satellite cages and/or kiosks shall be subject to the applicable accounting controls set forth in this Subchapter.

(d) Each gaming facility licensee shall file with the commission the names of all persons having control of the entrance to the cage, any satellite cages and vaults, as well as all persons able to operate alarm systems for the cage, any satellite cages and vaults.

(e) Whenever the commission or the internal controls of a gaming facility licensee require or authorize documents to be transported from the cashiers' cage to a satellite cage or from a satellite cage to the cashiers' cage or another satellite cage, the gaming facility licensee shall notify surveillance and transport the documents through the use of cage personnel, unless the commission or such gaming facility licensee's internal control provides otherwise.

(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Subchapter, any gaming facility licensee that operates two or more gaming areas within the facility that are physically connected in a manner deemed appropriate by the commission may, with the prior written approval of the commission, operate a single cashiers' cage in one such gaming area to serve as the central location for the functions set forth in subdivision (a) of this section for all of the gaming areas; provided, however, that the gaming facility licensee shall be required to operate such satellite cages in each gaming area as the commission may deem necessary.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 9 § 5316.1

Adopted New York State Register November 16, 2016/Volume XXXVIII, Issue 46, eff. 11/16/2016