PERMANENT RULES
Effective Date of Rule: January 1, 2011.
Purpose: The Great American Gaming Corporation's request to allow house-banked card room operators offering progressive jackpot card games to reduce a reserve or secondary jackpot to seed a different progressive jackpot game without recognizing this amount as gross receipts was approved.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 230-15-695.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 9.46.070, 9.46.0282.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 10-12-092 on June 1, 2010.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: August 16, 2010.
Susan Arland
Rules Coordinator
OTS-3246.1
AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending Order 608, filed 4/10/07,
effective 1/1/08)
WAC 230-15-695
Adjusting progressive jackpot amounts.
House-banked card game licensees must not reduce the amount of
a progressive jackpot prize accrued or displayed except for
the following reasons:
(1) To reduce the jackpot and the advertised amount by the amount won; or
(2) To correct an amount displayed incorrectly because of malfunctioning equipment; or
(3) To correct the display when the amount displayed is greater than the predetermined maximum prize limit; or
(4) To reduce a reserve or secondary jackpot as long as they record the funds removed as gross receipts and properly documented that in their records; or
(5) To reduce a reserve or secondary jackpot to recover seed money that was not taken from gross receipts, if they properly document those funds in their records; or
(6) To reduce the jackpot by the dollar amount they paid for merchandise they award as prizes.
(7) To reduce a reserve or secondary jackpot to immediately seed a different progressive jackpot if the licensee properly documents this transfer in their records.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 9.46.070. 07-09-033 (Order 608), § 230-15-695, filed 4/10/07, effective 1/1/08.]