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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".36" citation="COMAR 36.03.10.36" title_num="36" subtitle_num="03" chapter_num="10" heading="Promotional Play.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>A facility operator may:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Issue promotional play if it is not awarded as cashable credit; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Utilize a promotional play system meeting the requirements of this subtitle.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>A facility operator may not issue to a player promotional play equaling or exceeding $5,000 per gaming day without approval from the chief executive or the chief executive’s designee.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>A facility operator shall immediately report to the Commission evidence that a promotional play instrument has been counterfeited, tampered with, or altered in any way which would affect the integrity, fairness, or reliability of the promotional play instrument.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>A facility operator shall submit to the Commission in a form and in accordance with a time frame specified by the Commission a quarterly report summarizing:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Promotional play awarded for the period including:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Total amount in promotional play awarded in noncashable credits; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Other forms of promotional play; and</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Promotional play redeemed by players for the period including:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Total amount in promotional play redeemed in noncashable credits; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Other forms of promotional play redeemed.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>A facility operator shall develop and include in the internal controls submitted to and approved by the Commission under Regulation .05 of this chapter procedures addressing:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Methods utilized to:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Issue promotional play; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Redeem promotional play; and</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>A promotion play instrument including a requirement that it document:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Name or trade name of the facility operator;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Amount in noncashable credits;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Unique series number automatically generated by the promotional play system;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Locations where a promotional instrument may be redeemed and any restrictions applicable to redemption;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(e)">
        <text>A bar code or magnetic strip which enables the promotional play system to identify the numeric information required by this section; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(f)">
        <text>Notice to the player of the terms of expiration.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>Limitation on Free Promotional Play.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Through the first full fiscal year of a facility’s operations, the proceeds of a facility excludes money given away by a licensee as free promotional play and used by players to bet in a video lottery terminal or at a table game.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>After the first full fiscal year of a facility’s operations, the amount of money given away as free promotional play in a fiscal year may not exceed a percentage of the facility’s proceeds received in the prior fiscal year under State Government Article, §9-1A-27(a)(2), (c)(1)(ii), and (d)(1), Annotated Code of Maryland, that equates to 20 percent of total video lottery terminal and table game proceeds the facility generated in the prior fiscal year.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>An amount of money given away as free promotional play in a fiscal year exceeding the percentage defined in §F(2) of this regulation of the facility’s proceeds of the prior fiscal year shall be allocated as proceeds under State Government Article, §9-1A-27, Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="G.">
    <text>No later than 90 days after the end of the fiscal year, a facility operator shall submit to the Commission a written:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Report of its use of free promotional play during the prior fiscal year; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Recommendation for any adjustment to the limitation on free promotional play established under §F(2) of this regulation.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="H.">
    <text>For purposes of §§F and G of this regulation, “fiscal year” means the fiscal year of the facility operator.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>