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<chapter num="16" heading="Wagering Using Online, Web-based, or Mobile Applications" title_num="36" subtitle_num="10">
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" heading="General.">
    <text>Unless context or the individual regulation dictates otherwise, for purposes of this regulation, “sports wagering licensee” includes:</text>
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>Mobile sports wagering licensee; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>Online sports wagering operator licensee.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" heading="One Website.">
    <text>A mobile sports wagering licensee may utilize only one individually branded website and an accompanying application to accept and pay sports wagers.</text>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" heading="Geolocation Requirements.">
    <text>A sports wagering licensee and its agents, contractors, and vendors shall ensure that all of its sports wagers are initiated, received, and completed within the State and that only intermediate routing of a sports wager occurs outside the State.</text>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".04" heading="Periodic Review of Systems.">
    <text>A sports wagering licensee and its agents, contractors, and vendors shall periodically review their geolocation technology systems to ensure compliance with this chapter.</text>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".05" heading="Age Verification.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>A sports wagering licensee shall provide for age verification measures to block access to and prevent sports wagers by an individual younger than 21 years old.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>A sports wagering licensee shall provide for identity verification through secure online databases.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".06" heading="Security Mechanisms.">
    <text>A sports wagering licensee shall have security mechanisms that ensure the confidentiality of personally identifiable information except as otherwise required by law or authorized by this subtitle.</text>
  </regulation>
  <annotations>
    <annotation type="Authority">State Government Article, §§9-1E-01—9-1E-15, Annotated Code of Maryland</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Effective date:</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulations .01—.06 adopted as an emergency provision effective August 5, 2021 (48:18 Md. R. 690); adopted permanently effective January 13, 2022 (49:1 Md. R. 16)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .03 amended as an emergency provision effective January 26, 2022 (49:5 Md. R. 364); amended permanently effective July 25, 2022 (49:15 Md. R. 740)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .04 amended as an emergency provision effective January 26, 2022 (49:5 Md. R. 364); amended permanently effective July 25, 2022 (49:15 Md. R. 740)</annotation>
  </annotations>
</chapter>