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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".29" citation="COMAR 36.03.10.29" title_num="36" subtitle_num="03" chapter_num="10" heading="Deposit of Counter Checks.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>A facility operator shall deposit a counter check in its bank account or present the counter check directly to the player’s bank:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>No later than:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>14 days after the date of the check for a check of $1,000 or less;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>21 days after the date of the check for a check greater than $1,000 but not more than $2,500;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>45 days after the date of the check for a check greater than $2,500; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>60 days after the date of the check for a check greater than $10,000; or</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>In accordance with a deposit schedule agreed to between the facility operator and the player if the deposit schedule:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Does not authorize deposit more than 60 days after the date of the check;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>May not be amended or modified to change the deposit date of a counter check after acceptance of the counter check from the player; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Was at the time of the initial authorization of credit or an approved change in a credit limit:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Agreed to and approved by the employee who extended the credit; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Documented in the credit file.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>A facility operator shall deposit a replacement check accepted from a player in a substitution, consolidation, or partial redemption transaction in its bank account or present the replacement check directly to the player’s bank:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>On the deposit date of the initial counter check in accordance with Regulation .28D of this chapter; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>In accordance with one of the deposit options of §A of this regulation.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>A facility operator shall deposit in its bank account or present directly to the player’s bank a personal check accepted in full redemption of a counter check on the next day.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>A facility operator:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>If there are a series of consolidation or redemption transactions with a player, may substitute a current counter check for the earliest dated counter check returned to the player in the first of the series of consolidation or redemption transactions; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>In computing the time periods in §§A, B, and C of this regulation, shall consider the last day of the period to be included unless it is a Saturday, Sunday, or a State or federal holiday, in which event the time period runs until the next banking day.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>A facility operator shall develop and include in the internal controls submitted to and approved under Regulation .05 of this chapter procedures and controls addressing the deposit of counter checks and replacement checks.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>A facility operator’s internal controls shall include:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Procedures and controls addressing:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Release of a counter check or replacement check for presentment to a player’s bank to:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>A principal employee of the facility operator; or</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>An attorney; and</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Correction, prior to deposit or presentment or on redeposit of a returned check, of data entry errors in:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Bank name;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Bank routing number;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iii)">
          <text>Bank account number; or</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(iv)">
          <text>Micro-encoding number; and</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>A prohibition against correcting information that identifies the verified bank account on which the counter check was originally drawn.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>