N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 9 § 5329.1

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

Section 5329.1 - Definitions

Unless the context indicates otherwise, the following definitions and the definitions set forth in Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law section 1367 are applicable throughout this Part:

(a)Affiliate marketing partner means an entity or person who promotes, refers potential customers to, or conducts advertising, marketing or branding on behalf of, or to the benefit of, a casino sports wagering licensee or sports pool vendor pursuant to an agreement with such licensee or vendor. This definition shall not apply to general news media that are not focused on gaming, gambling or wagering matters.

(b)Aut³omated ticket machine means an electronic device that, at a minimum, is used for the execution of permitted wagers placed by a patron directly and permissible redemption of winning wagers within a sports wagering lounge or other location within the gaming facility as approved by the commission.

(c)Event number means a set of alphabetic and/or numeric characters that corresponds to a sports event or occurrence within a sports event.

(d)Integrity monitoring provider means a vendor approved by the commission to receive reports of unusual betting activity from sports pool operators for the purpose of assisting such operators in identifying suspicious betting activity.

(e)Oddsmaker means a person licensed as a casino key employee or as an employee of a casino vendor enterprise licensee responsible for the final approval of all odds established on any wager made pursuant to Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law section 1367 and this Part.

(f)Operations wagering manager means a person licensed as a casino key employee or as an employee of a casino vendor enterprise licensee responsible for the operations of sports wagering at a casino.

(g)Parlay card means a physical instrument offering a multi-contest wager.

(h)Parlay card wager means a transaction on the outcome of a series of three or more sports events with a predetermined fixed payout.

(i)Prohibited sports pool participant means any person whose participation may undermine the integrity of wagering on a sports event or the conduct of such sports event itself, or any person who is prohibited for other good cause, including, without limitation:

(1) any individual placing a wager as an agent or proxy;

(2) any athlete whose performance may be used to determine, in whole or in part, the outcome of such wagering;

(3) any person who is an athlete, player, coach, referee or other game official, physician, trainer, team employee or governing body employee, in any sports event overseen by such person's sports governing body;

(4) any person with access to material, non-public confidential information about a sports event that is the subject of such wagering;

(5) a person identified to the commission by a sports governing body that the commission agrees is a person who should be a prohibited sports pool participant; or

(6) any person who holds a position of authority or influence sufficient to exert influence over the participants in a sports event that is the subject of a wager, if such person is not otherwise described by this subdivision.

(j)Sports pool vendor means a licensed casino vendor enterprise that operates on behalf of a casino or assists a casino in the operation of a sports pool.

(k)Structured wager means to place knowingly a series of wager in any amount, at one or more facilities, on one or more days, in any manner, to circumvent knowingly the recording and reporting requirements of section 5329.22 of this Part. The wager or wagers need not exceed the dollar thresholds in section 5329.22 of this Part at any single facility in any single day in order to constitute structuring within the meaning of this definition.

(l)Suspicious betting activity means wagering activity that might be related to an attempt or effort to fix the outcome of a sports event, or any portion thereof, or occurrence within a sports event.

(m)Suspicious wager means a wager that an operator knows or has reason to suspect is being attempted or was placed, including, without limitation:

(1) in violation of or as part of a plan to violate or evade local, State or Federal law or regulation prohibiting wagering on a type of sports event; or

(2) in violation of or as part of a plan to violate or evade local, State or Federal law or regulation prohibiting wagering by, or on behalf of, a prohibited person, as defined in section 5329.19(b) of this Part; or

(3) by a person who has no business or apparent lawful purpose in placing such wager or is not the sort of wager that a particular patron would normally be expected to place.

(n)Wager means a transaction placed by a patron on an authorized sporting event or events or an occurrence or occurrences therein.

(o)Wagering cashier means an employee of an operator or sports pool vendor who accepts wagers at a sports wagering lounge.

(p)Wagering platform means a computer or other system approved by the commission that registers sports wagers and computes the wagering and payoffs in sports wagering.

(q)Wagering ticket means a physical record issued and maintained by the wagering platform that evidences a sports wager.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 9 § 5329.1

Adopted New York State Register June 26, 2019/Volume XLI, Issue 26, eff. 6/26/2019

Amended New York State Register October 18, 2023/Volume XLV, Issue 42, eff. 10/18/2023