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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" citation="COMAR 36.03.06.03" title_num="36" subtitle_num="03" chapter_num="06" heading="Requirements.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Definitions.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>In this regulation the following terms have the meaning indicated.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Terms Defined.</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>“Advertisement” means any material that is:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Disseminated to the public through broadcasting, publication, mail, or any other means; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Intended to encourage video lottery terminal or table game play.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>“Billboard advertisement” means a roadside sign, aviation banner, or event banner that is intended to encourage video lottery terminal or table game play.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>“Gambling assistance message” means a phrase approved by the Commission to encourage responsible play;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>“Online advertisement” means an advertisement on a website, an application, in social media, or otherwise on the internet, that is intended to encourage video lottery terminal or table game play.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>“Printed advertisement” means an advertisement that appears in or on a sign, direct mailing, poster, brochure or other written material and is intended to encourage video lottery terminal or table game play.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>“Responsible gambling awareness materials” means a sticker, a brochure, a wallet card, or other material that conveys only problem gambling resource information.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(g)">
        <text>“Underage warning message” means the language that prohibits individuals under the age of 21 on the gaming floor”.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>A facility operator shall:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Post signage approved by the Commission that prominently bears the gambling assistance message and the underage warning message at each customer entrance to the gaming floor;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Include the gambling assistance message on an advertisement that is intended to encourage video lottery terminal or table game play at its facility;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Ensure that a printed advertisement bears the gambling assistance message and meets requirements of
                  COMAR 36.03.03.08;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Ensure that a billboard bearing a printed advertisement bears the gambling assistance message and meets requirements of
                  COMAR 36.03.03.08;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Ensure that a radio, television, or video advertisement bears the gambling assistance message and meets requirements of
                  COMAR 36.03.03.08;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>Ensure that the gambling assistance message is printed on a paper product that is associated with player consumption of food or beverage if the paper product is:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Special ordered; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Branded with the facility's logo;</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>Ensure that the gambling assistance message is printed on ticket stock;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(8)">
      <text>Place in the facility responsible gambling awareness materials according to its responsible gaming plan required under
                  Regulation .02 of this chapter; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(9)">
      <text>Ensure that an advertisement does not include language that suggests an outcome is guaranteed or without risk; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(10)">
      <text>Ensure that an advertisement includes a gambling assistance message that:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>For a printed advertisement, the font height is the greater of:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>The majority of the text in the advertisement; or</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Three percent of the height or width of the advertisement.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>For a billboard advertisement, the font height of the gambling assistance message shall be at least 5 percent of the height or width, whichever is greater, of the face of the billboard;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>For a video and television advertisement, the gambling assistance message shall:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Be visible for the entire duration of the advertisement, with a font size that is at least 3 percent of the image height or width, whichever is greater; or</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>From the first instance video lottery terminal, table game play or a facility operator is displayed, appear on the final screen for at least the final three seconds of the advertisement with a font height that is at least 8 percent of the image height or width, whichever is greater;</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>For websites and social media, the gambling assistance message shall:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Be posted on each webpage or profile page, and on any gaming-related advertisement posted on the webpage or profile page, with a font height that is at least the same size as the majority of the text used on the webpage or profile page; or</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Meet the font height and shall comply with the requirements in
                      §B(10)(a) of this regulation..</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>