205 CMR 138.24 - Cashiers' Cage; Satellite Cages; Master Coin Bank; Coin Vaults
The system of internal controls submitted by a gaming licensee in accordance with 205 CMR 138.02 shall include policies and procedures relative to the cashiers' cage, satellite cages, master coin banks (if any), and coin vaults (if any) that incorporate, at a minimum, the following:
(1) Each establishment
shall have on or immediately adjacent to the gaming area a physical structure
known as a cashiers' cage (cage) to house the cashiers and to serve as the
central location in the gaming area for the main bank, the marker bank, the
kiosk bank, and the chip bank, which shall be responsible for the following
pursuant to
205
CMR 138.29 and
205
CMR 138.24:
(a) The custody of the cage inventory
comprising currency including cash, patrons' deposits, coin, patron checks,
gaming chips and plaques, and of forms, documents, and records normally
associated with the operation of a cage;
(b) The approval, exchange, redemption, and
consolidation of patron checks received for the purposes of gaming;
(c) The receipt, distribution, sale and
redemption of gaming chips and plaques;
(d) The issuance, receipt and reconciliation
of imprest funds used by slot attendants in the acceptance of currency and
coupons from patrons in exchange for currency;
(e) The issuance, receipt and reconciliation
of imprest chip funds and currency used by chippersons in the acceptance of
coin, currency, slot tokens and coupons from seated poker patrons in exchange
for chips; and
(f) Such other
functions normally associated with the operation of a cage.
(2) If a gaming establishment will
make use of coins or tokens in its gaming operation it shall have within the
cage or in such other approved by the commission, a physical structure known as
a master coin bank to house master coin bank cashiers. The master coin bank
shall be designed and constructed to provide maximum security for the materials
housed therein and the activities performed therein and serve as the central
location in the gaming establishment for the following:
(a) The custody of currency, coin, prize
tokens, slot tokens, forms, documents and records normally generated or
utilized by master coin bank cashiers, slot cashiers, changepersons, and slot
attendants;
(b) The exchange of
currency, coin, coupons, prize tokens and slot tokens for supporting
documentation;
(c) The
responsibility for the overall reconciliation of all documentation generated by
master coin bank cashiers, slot cashiers, changepersons, and slot
attendants;
(d) The receipt of coin
and slot tokens from the hard count room; and
(e) Such other functions normally associated
with the operation of the master coin bank.
(3) The cage shall be designed and
constructed to provide maximum security for the materials housed therein and
the activities performed therein; such design and construction shall, at a
minimum, include the following features and specifications:
(a) It shall be fully enclosed except for
openings through which materials such as gaming chips and plaques, slot tokens
and prize tokens, patron checks, cash, records, and documents can be passed to
service the public, gaming tables, and slot booths;
(b) It shall have a manually triggered silent
alarm system for the cage, ancillary office space, and any related vault, which
systems shall be connected directly to the monitoring rooms of the closed
circuit television system, IEB office and the security department
office;
(c) It shall have double
door entry and exit system (MAN-TRAP) that will not permit an individual to
pass through the second door until the first door is securely locked. In
addition:
1. The first door adjacent to the
gaming floor of the double door entry and exit system shall be controlled by
one department (electronically and manually). The second door of the double
door entry and exit system shall be controlled by a separate department from
the first;
2. The system shall have
closed circuit television coverage which shall be monitored by the security
department or surveillance department; and
3. Any entrance to the cage that is not a
double door entry and exit system shall be an alarmed emergency exit door
only.
(d) It shall have
separate locks on each door of the double door entry and exit system, the keys
to which shall be different from each other.
(4) Each master coin bank located outside the
cage shall meet all the requirements of
205
CMR 138.24(3).
(5) Each gaming establishment may have
separate areas for the storage of coin, prize tokens and slot tokens (coin
vaults) in locations outside the cage or master coin bank.
(6) Each coin vault shall be designed,
constructed and operated to provide maximum security for the materials housed
and activities performed therein, and shall include at least the following:
(a) A fully enclosed room, located in an area
not open to the public;
(b) A metal
door with one key that shall be maintained and controlled by the main bank or
master coin bank, which shall establish a sign-in and sign-out procedure for
removal and replacement of that key;
(c) An alarm device that signals the monitors
of the gaming licensee's close circuit television system whenever the door to
the coin vault is opened; and
(d)
Closed circuit television cameras capable of accurate visual monitoring and
taping of any activities in the coin vault.
(7) Each gaming establishment may also have
one or more "satellite cages" separate and apart from the cashiers' cage, but
in or adjacent to a gaming area or simulcasting facility or Sports Wagering
Area, established to maximize security, efficient operations, or patron
convenience and comfort and designed and constructed in accordance with
205 CMR
138.00. Subject to commission approval, a satellite
cage may perform any or all of the functions of the cashiers' cage. The
functions which are conducted in a satellite cage shall be subject to the
applicable accounting controls set forth in 205 CMR.
(8) Each gaming licensee shall file with the
commission the names of all persons possessing the combination or keys to the
locks securing the entrance to the cage, any satellite cages, master coin bank
and coin vaults; as well as all persons possessing the ability to operate alarm
systems for the cage, any satellite cages, master coin bank and coin
vaults.
(9) Notwithstanding
205
CMR 138.24(2), each gaming
licensee may, with prior commission approval, operate its cashiers' cage
without the master coin bank, provided that the main bank serves as the central
location in the gaming establishment for the transactions enumerated in
205
CMR 138.24(2)(a) through
(e), and provided further, that the
references therein and elsewhere in
205 CMR
138.00 to:
(a)
Master Coin Bank Cashiers shall apply instead to the
main bank cashiers assigned the duties and performing the functions that would
otherwise be assigned to or performed by master coin bank cashiers;
and
(b)
The Master Coin
Bank shall apply instead to the main bank, but only insofar as it
is authorized to perform master coin bank functions.
(10) Whenever the approved internal controls
of a gaming licensee require or authorize documents to be transported from the
cashiers' cage to a satellite cage or from a satellite cage to the cashiers'
cage or another satellite cage, the gaming licensee shall, unless specified
otherwise, transport the documents through the use of a pneumatic tube system
or a security department representative.
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