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9 NYCRR 5313.1 - System of internal control

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9 NYCRR 5313.2 - Age for gaming participation; signage; responsibilities

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9 NYCRR 5313.3 - Hours of operation

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(a)A change in scheduled hours of operation of a gaming facility means a change in scheduled hours effected pursuant to the requirements of Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law section 1333(2).

(b)An alteration in scheduled hours of operation of a gaming facility means a temporary deviation from established hours of operation, as contemplated by Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law section 1333(3). A gaming facility licensee proposing an alteration of scheduled hours of operation must do so in writing to the commission at least 30 days prior to the effective date of the proposed alteration, and no such alteration shall be permitted absent prior approval by the commission; provided, however, that the commission may shorten or waive the prior notice and prior approval requirements if extraordinary circumstances exist, in the judgment of the commission.

(c)If a gaming facility is required to close during normal business hours due to an emergency, such facility shall notify the commission as soon as practicable.

9 NYCRR 5313.4 - Facility accessibility

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Latest notice: SGC-19-16-00014-A · Adopted rule · Jul 20, 2016
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(a)Consistent with the requirements of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. sections 12181-12189) and regulations promulgated thereunder (referred to in this section, collectively, as the ADA), each gaming facility licensee that is a public accommodation as defined in the ADA shall comply with Federal law pertaining to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided an equal opportunity to participate in or benefit from such licensee’s goods and services. To accomplish these objectives, such gaming facility licensee’s internal control system shall ensure ongoing ADA compliance, including, at a minimum:

(1)designation of or hiring an ADA compliance officer who, within 90 days of designation or hire, shall undergo training, at such gaming facility licensee’s expense, in regard to the requirements of title III of the ADA. The ADA compliance officer shall be responsible for handling, among other things, any disability-related complaints from patrons and guests of the gaming facility;

(2)training of all first-line supervisors and managers, within 90 days of hire, on title III of the ADA as such law applies to a gaming facility and on the obligations to ensure that all guests with disabilities are afforded an equal opportunity to participate in the services, facilities and activities offered at the gaming facility; and

(3)development of an ADA-complaint resolution policy to address ADA-related complaints by patrons and guests of such gaming facility and provide a copy of such policy to the commission for review and input. Such policy shall identify the ADA compliance officer and the process by which complaints will be investigated and resolved. Such gaming facility licensee shall implement such policy within 60 days of receiving and implementing the commission’s comments.

(b)Each gaming facility licensee shall report annually to the commission in regard to such licensee’s ADA practices, including any complaints received and their resolution, any policies adopted and any training of employees that occurred (by date and the content of training). The commission may order such corrective or remedial action as the commission may deem necessary or advisable for a gaming facility licensee to undertake.

(c)The facility licensee shall also provide to the commission annually any research, proposed practices or practices implemented with regard to accommodations for disabled persons gaming within the facility.

9 NYCRR 5313.5 - Access badges and temporary access credentials

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Latest notice: SGC-19-16-00014-A · Adopted rule · Jul 20, 2016
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(a)A gaming facility licensee shall develop an access control matrix indicating the restricted areas in a licensed facility to which each employee, and each employee of a vendor or any other authorized person has access in accordance with such person’s job description. Access to restricted areas by a gaming facility employee or vendor employee shall be limited to the restricted areas to which such employee needs access in the course of the performance of such employee's normal duties listed in such employee's job description.

(b)A gaming facility licensee shall adopt an access badge system consisting of a badge that contains an employee's name, picture and identifying code that indicates such employee’s title and/or job function.

(c)A gaming facility licensee shall prepare and maintain internal control procedures for:

(1)issuance of access badges for employees, vendor employees and other non-employees permitted to have access to one or more restricted areas and issuance of replacement access badges when a badge is misplaced, stolen, forgotten, damaged, not functioning or obsolete;

(2)issuance of temporary identification credentials to employees, vendor employees and other non-employees; and

(3)collection of such access badges or credentials when an employee, vendor employee or other non-employee has been suspended or discharged or when an employee’s employment has been terminated.

(d)Each gaming facility employee shall be required to wear an access badge in a location visible to guests, surveillance cameras and security personnel at all times while working in a gaming facility.

(e)A complete listing of badge records, including without limitation the name of each badge recipient, employment position, badge number and assigned employment and access level shall be provided to the commission or the commission’s designees prior to the issuance of a gaming facility’s operation certificate. All additions, deletions and changes to such initial listing shall be provided to the commission or the commission’s designees at a frequency that the commission may direct.

(f)Commission employees or designees shall have immediate, unfettered access to restricted areas during the performance of their respective duties and responsibilities.

9 NYCRR 5313.6 - Licensee leases and contracts

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Compiling agency: Executive Department
Text status: Source receipt
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Latest notice: SGC-19-16-00014-A · Adopted rule · Jul 20, 2016
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(a)Consistent with Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law section 1341, each gaming facility applicant or licensee shall maintain a record of each written or unwritten agreement in regard to the realty, construction, maintenance or business of a proposed or existing gaming facility or related facility, without regard to whether such gaming facility applicant or licensee is a party to such agreement.

(b)The commission may review any agreement described in subdivision (a) of this section on the basis of the reasonableness of its terms, including the terms of compensation, and of the qualifications of the owners, officers, employees and directors of any enterprise involved in the agreement.

(c)If the commission disapproves of such an agreement or of the owners, officers, employees or directors of any enterprise involved in such agreement, the commission may require termination of such agreement.

9 NYCRR 5313.7 - Emergency procedures

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Compiling agency: Executive Department
Text status: Source receipt
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Latest notice: SGC-19-16-00014-A · Adopted rule · Jul 20, 2016
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(a)A gaming facility licensee shall submit to the commission, the New York State police, local police department and the local fire department, no less than 90 days before the issuance of an operation certificate, an emergency action plan for the response to, and management of, fire, medical emergencies, loss of power, critical system and/or equipment failures, including without limitation surveillance and accounting, and natural disasters in all areas of the gaming facility and ancillary developments.

(b)Such plan shall include procedures for notification of the New York State Police, local police department, the local fire department or emergency medical personnel, and procedures for expedited and unimpeded access of the personnel into all areas of the gaming facility or ancillary developments in the event of a fire, medical or other emergency.

(c)Such plan shall also include a proposed inspection schedule allowing the New York State Police, local police department and local fire department personnel to inspect all areas of the gaming facility and ancillary developments for compliance with applicable fire and emergency laws, codes and ordinances.

9 NYCRR 5313.8 - Operation certificate

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Latest notice: SGC-19-16-00014-A · Adopted rule · Jul 20, 2016
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9 NYCRR 5313.9 - Firearms

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Latest notice: SGC-19-16-00014-A · Adopted rule · Jul 20, 2016
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(a)No person shall possess, or be permitted to possess, any firearm within a gaming facility without the prior express written consent of the commission, except any on-duty officer or agent of any local, State or Federal law enforcement agency, when such officer or agent is acting in an official capacity.

(b)The gaming facility licensee shall post in a conspicuous location at every entrance to the gaming facility a sign stating: “No Person Shall Possess Any Firearm Within This Facility.”

9 NYCRR 5313.10 - Retention, storage and destruction of books, records and documents

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Compiling agency: Executive Department
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Latest notice: SGC-19-16-00014-A · Adopted rule · Jul 20, 2016
Source snapshot: Jun 6, 2026

(a)For the purposes of this section, books, records and documents means any book, record or document pertaining to, prepared in or generated by the operation of a gaming facility licensee, including all forms, reports, accounting records, ledgers, subsidiary records, computer-generated data, internal audit records, correspondence and personnel records required to be generated and maintained (excluding physical tickets generated by slot machines as long as an electronic record of each ticket printed is maintained within the slot management system). This definition applies without regard to the medium through which the record is generated or maintained (e.g., paper, magnetic media or encoded disk.

(b)Original books, records and documents pertaining to the operation of a gaming facility licensee shall be:

(1)prepared and maintained in a complete, accurate and legible form. Electronic data shall be stored in a format that ensures readability, without regard to whether the technology or software that created or maintained such data has become obsolete;

(2)retained in a secure location in the gaming facility that is equipped with a fire suppression system or at another location approved pursuant to subdivision (d) of this section;

(3)made available for inspection by the commission and the commission’s designees during all hours of operation;

(4)organized and indexed in a manner to provide immediate accessibility to the commission and the commission’s designees; and

(5)destroyed only after expiration of the minimum retention period specified in subdivision (c) of this section, except that the commission may, upon the written request of a gaming facility licensee and for good cause shown, permit destruction at an earlier date.

(c)Unless otherwise authorized by article 13 of the Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law or this Title, all original books, records and documents shall be retained in accordance with a retention schedule annually issued by the commission. Nothing herein shall be construed as relieving a gaming facility licensee from meeting any obligation to maintain any book, record, or document required by any other Federal, State or local; governmental body authority, or agency.

(d)The commission may approve, upon the written request of a gaming facility licensee, a location outside the gaming facility to store original books, records and documents. Such request shall include the following:

(1)a detailed description of the proposed location, including security and fire suppression systems; and

(2)the procedures under which the commission and the commission’s designees will be able to gain access to the retained original books, records and documents.

(e)The commission may approve, upon the written request of a gaming facility licensee a microfilm, microfiche or other suitable media system for the copying and storage of original books, records and documents. Such request shall include representations in regard to the:

(1)processing, preservation and maintenance methods that will be employed to ensure that the books, records and documents are available in a format that makes such material readily available for review and copying;

(2)inspection and quality control methods that will be employed to ensure that microfilm, microfiche or other media, when displayed on a reader or viewer or reproduced on paper, exhibits a high degree of legibility and readability;

(3)availability of a reader or printer for use by the commission and the commission’s designee at such licensed facility or other location approved by the commission and the readiness with which the books, records or documents being stored on microfilm, microfiche or other media can be located, read and reproduced; and

(4)availability of a detailed index of all microforms or other stored data maintained and arranged in a manner to permit the immediate location of any particular book, record or document.

9 NYCRR 5313.11 - Key control

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Compiling agency: Executive Department
Text status: Source receipt
Compiled text through: Nov 15, 2021
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Latest notice: SGC-19-16-00014-A · Adopted rule · Jul 20, 2016
Source snapshot: Jun 6, 2026

(a)Any key that is considered sensitive and is required to be controlled and maintained and any corresponding locking device shall be approved by the commission. Such keys shall be legally duplicated only by the manufacturer, or the manufacturer’s designee, and shall be capable of unlocking the locking device on no more than one type of secure box, compartment or location used or maintained within the gaming facility. Nothing in this subdivision shall preclude the commission from exempting a type of secure box, compartment or location from the requirements of this subdivision upon a determination that the security of such box, compartment or location would not otherwise be compromised.

(b)As approved by the commission, sensitive keys shall include, without limitation, the following:

(1)table drop box contents keys;

(2)table drop box release keys;

(3)table drop box trolley keys;

(4)slot machine keys;

(5)count room entrance keys;

(6)locations housing a computer that controls a progressive payout wager system for table games offering a progressive payout wager;

(7)storage cabinets or trolleys for unattached table drop boxes;

(8)float keys; and

(9)pit podium keys.

(c)A gaming facility licensee shall establish key control procedures for any sensitive key as approved by the commission. Such procedures shall provide for, at a minimum, the following:

(1)the maintenance of perpetual inventory records and the physical inventory of all sensitive keys by an independent department;

(2)the requisitioning of keys and locking devices from vendors; and

(3)the security and restrictions that control access to keys, whether manually or through an electronic system, and records and reports generated or prepared.

9 NYCRR 5313.12 - Facial recognition

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Compiling agency: Executive Department
Text status: Source receipt
Compiled text through: Nov 15, 2021
Register checked through: July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
Activity status: No later Register activity identified in this check.
Latest notice: SGC-19-16-00014-A · Adopted rule · Jul 20, 2016
Source snapshot: Jun 6, 2026

The commission may require a gaming facility licensee to install security and surveillance equipment where any chips, tokens, tickets, electronic cards or similar objects can be redeemed for cash, whether by a gaming employee or by electronic means, that must capture, for law enforcement purposes, facial feature pattern characteristics, including a computerized facial image. Such system must be able to compare a photograph or image of one or more persons to live or recorded video in order to determine if such person is or has been in the facility.

9 NYCRR 5313.13 - License plate recognition

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Compiling agency: Executive Department
Text status: Source receipt
Compiled text through: Nov 15, 2021
Register checked through: July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
Activity status: No later Register activity identified in this check.
Latest notice: SGC-19-16-00014-A · Adopted rule · Jul 20, 2016
Source snapshot: Jun 6, 2026

The commission may require a gaming facility licensee to install security and surveillance equipment in garages and parking lots to capture a vehicle license plate. Such system must be able to include the time, color image and the vehicle’s license plate number.

9 NYCRR 5313.14 - Limitation on certain financial access

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Compiling agency: Executive Department
Text status: Source receipt
Compiled text through: Nov 15, 2021
Register checked through: July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
Activity status: No later Register activity identified in this check.
Latest notice: SGC-19-16-00014-A · Adopted rule · Jul 20, 2016
Source snapshot: Jun 6, 2026

(a)Automated teller machines shall be prohibited from accepting electronic benefit cards, debit cards or similar negotiable instruments issued by the State or political subdivisions of the State for the purpose of accessing temporary public assistance, as required by Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law section 1338(2).

(b)An automated teller machine shall have a label on the top and front that displays a unique identification number. Each such label shall have a color combination approved by the commission that is easily visible to the gaming facility’s surveillance department and that may not be easily removed. The label on the top of each automated teller machine shall be at least 1½ inches by 5½ inches and the label on the front of each automated teller machine shall be at least 1 inch by 2½ inches.

(c)A gaming facility may use an automated teller machine that also contains an automated gaming voucher redemption machine, an automated coupon redemption machine or bill breaker, provided that such machine complies with the requirements in regard to such gaming facility’s automated gaming voucher and coupon redemption machine accounting controls.

(d)The use of credit cards, debit cards, similar devices and instruments described in subdivision (a) of this section are prohibited in slot machines or at table games, as required by Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law section 1338(3).

(e)The proximity of an automated teller machine to a slot machine or table game that is on a gaming floor is subject to the following limitations:

(1)no automated teller machine may be placed closer than five feet to a slot machine or table game; and

(2)there may be no more than one automated teller machine for every 100 slot machines and table game seats.

(f)Exclusive of transaction fees or surcharges, the maximum amount that a player may withdraw from an account by using an automated teller machine located on a gaming floor shall be no more than $3,500 per calendar day.

(g)No gaming facility is permitted to cash a paycheck from a patron, as required by Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law section 1338(4).

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