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<section article="gsg" article_name="State Government" number="9-1A-24" title_number="9" title_name="Miscellaneous Executive Agencies" subtitle_number="1A" subtitle_name="Video Lottery Terminals">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the Commission shall ensure that a video lottery operation licensee complies with the requirements of this section as a condition of holding the video lottery operation license.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The county alcoholic beverages licensing authority for the county in which a video lottery facility is located shall ensure that the video lottery operation licensee complies with the requirements of this subsection.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (4) of this subsection, a video lottery operation licensee may not provide food or alcoholic beverages to individuals at no cost.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Any food or alcoholic beverages offered by a video lottery operation licensee for sale to individuals may be offered only at prices that are determined by the county alcoholic beverages licensing authority to be commensurate with the price of similar types of food and alcoholic beverages at restaurants in the county in which the video lottery facility is located.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A video lottery operation licensee may provide food at no cost to individuals to the same extent allowed under § 6–310 of the Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis Article for a person engaged in the sale or barter of spirituous, malt, or intoxicating liquors and licensed under the laws of Maryland.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, a video lottery operation licensee shall ensure that intoxicated individuals and individuals under the age of 21 years are not allowed to play video lottery terminals or table games and are not allowed in areas of the video lottery facility where video lottery terminals or table games are located.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A video lottery operation licensee may allow a video lottery employee who is an adult to enter or remain in an area within the video lottery facility that is designated for table game or video lottery terminal activities if the video lottery employee is working.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>By regulation, the Commission shall provide for the establishment of a list of individuals who are to be mandatorily excluded or ejected by a video lottery operation licensee from any video lottery operation licensed under this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The regulations under this subsection shall define the standards for exclusion or ejection and shall include standards relating to individuals:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>who are career offenders as defined by regulations adopted by the Commission;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>who have been convicted of a criminal offense under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States that is a criminal offense involving moral turpitude or a gambling offense; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>whose presence in the establishment of a licensee would be adverse to the interest of the State, the licensee, or the person.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Commission may impose sanctions on a licensee in accordance with this subtitle if the licensee knowingly fails to exclude or eject from the premises of the licensee an individual placed by the Commission on the list of individuals to be excluded or ejected.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>An order under this subsection is subject to judicial review.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>By regulation, the Commission shall adopt measures that are intended to reduce or mitigate the effects of problem gambling.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The regulations shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>include establishment of a voluntary exclusion list of individuals with gambling problems who have requested to be excluded from any video lottery operation licensed under this subtitle; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>provide a simple mechanism for an individual who is sober and informed to request placement on the voluntary exclusion list for a specified period of time.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A video lottery operation licensee may not permit an individual on the voluntary exclusion list to enter into the video lottery facility or to play a video lottery terminal.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The Commission may impose sanctions on a licensee in accordance with this subtitle if the licensee knowingly fails to exclude from the premises of the licensee an individual on the voluntary exclusion list.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>In order to protect the public interest, the regulations shall include provisions that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>limit the number and location of and maximum withdrawal amounts from automated teller machines;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>prohibit authorized automated teller machines from accepting electronic benefit cards, debit cards, or similar negotiable instruments issued by the Department of Human Services for the purpose of accessing temporary cash assistance;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>require payouts above an amount adopted by the Commission to be made by check;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>require conspicuous disclosures related to the payout of video lottery terminals;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>limit the dollar amount that video lottery terminals will accept;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>prohibit the use of specified negotiable instruments at video lottery facilities and the use of credit cards, debit cards, and similar devices in video lottery terminals;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>provide consumers with a record of video lottery terminal spending levels if marketing measures are utilized that track consumer spending at video lottery facilities;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>prohibit consumers from cashing paychecks at video lottery facilities; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>prohibit video lottery operation licensees from engaging in or contracting with another to engage in predatory marketing practices.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A video lottery operation licensee may not, directly or indirectly, interfere with, hinder, obstruct, impede, or take any action to delay the implementation or establishment of a video lottery facility by any other licensee or applicant for a video lottery operation license awarded or issued under this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>The Commission shall adopt regulations, to the fullest extent allowed by the first amendment of the Constitution of the United States, to carry out the provisions of this subsection.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The regulations adopted under this subsection shall include provisions:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>that expressly prohibit:</text>
        </level>
        <level label="A">
          <text>taking any of the actions described in paragraph (1) of this subsection relating to the issuance of required State or local governmental approvals for the establishment of a video lottery facility; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="B">
          <text>providing funding or other material support to engage in any of the actions described in paragraph (1) of this subsection;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>that prohibit, as unlawful indirect conduct, activity:</text>
        </level>
        <level label="A">
          <text>by an entity in which the licensee owns a beneficial or proprietary interest; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="B">
          <text>by an entity in which an affiliate of the licensee owns a beneficial or proprietary interest; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>that allow the Commission to impose sanctions and penalties in accordance with § 9–1A–25 of this subtitle if a licensee knowingly violates paragraph (1) of this subsection.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
