N.J. Admin. Code § 13:69E-1.6A - Exchange and redemption of gaming chips, plaques, and coupons

(a) All wagering on authorized games, other than slot machines or keno, in a casino or casino simulcasting facility shall be conducted with gaming chips or plaques; provided, however, that coupons shall be permitted for use in wagering at authorized games in accordance with the rules of the Division. A casino licensee shall submit to the Division a sample of its coupons. Value chips previously issued by a casino licensee which are not in active use by that casino licensee shall not be used for wagering at authorized table games, keno or casino simulcasting, and shall not be accepted nor exchanged for any purpose at gaming table, keno work station or a casino simulcast counter. Such chips shall only be redeemed at the cashiers' cage pursuant to (g) below.

(b) Gaming chips or plaques shall be issued to a patron only at the request of such patron and shall not be given as change in any other but a gaming transaction. Unless otherwise authorized by the rules of the Division, gaming chips and plaques shall be issued only by dealers to casino patrons at gaming tables or by a general cashier in exchange for Counter Checks or front money account withdrawals. Gaming chips may be issued by chippersons to patrons seated at a poker table at which a game is in progress or by general cashiers. Gaming plaques and value chips shall be redeemed by casino patrons only at the cashiers' cage, provided, however, that value chips may be:

1. Issued to a patron in payment of a winning keno or simulcast wager and as part of a keno or simulcast wagering transaction in which value chips are tendered for wager;

2. Issued to a patron in payment of a manual slot machine jackpot;

3. Exchanged by a patron at the slot booths or with changepersons for currency, coin or slot tokens to play the slot machines;

4. Used by a patron for keno or simulcast wagering, including keno wagers in public keno areas;

5. Exchanged for a casino check upon a patron request to redeem value chips by mail in any amount. The chips shall be redeemed only by a cage supervisor, in accordance with internal controls which, at a minimum, shall detail procedures for the issuance of the casino check and the transfer of the surrendered value chips to the chip bank in a transaction fully supported by proper documentation; and

6. Exchanged by a patron for a pit counter check redemption as permitted by the rules of the Division.

(c) Except as provided in (h) and (j) below and as otherwise may be specifically approved by the Division, each casino licensee shall redeem its gaming chips and plaques only from its patrons and shall not knowingly redeem its gaming chips and plaques from any non-patron source.

(d) Non-value chips shall be presented for redemption only at the gaming table from which they were issued and shall not be redeemed or exchanged at any other location within the casino or casino simulcasting facility. When non-value chips are presented for redemption, the dealer shall accept them in exchange for an equivalent amount of value chips which may then be used by the patron in gaming or simulcast wagering or redeemed in the same manner as any other value chip.

(e) Each casino licensee shall have the discretion to permit, limit or prohibit the use of value chips in gaming at roulette and pokette, provided, however, that:

1. No person shall be permitted to wager a value chip with a match play coupon at any roulette table at which match play coupons are permitted to be used; and

2. When value chips are in use, it shall be the responsibility of the casino licensee and its employees to keep accurate account of the wagers being made at roulette and pokette with value chips so that the wagers made by one player are not confused with those made by another player at the table.

(f) Each gaming chip and plaque is solely evidence of a debt that the issuing casino licensee owes to the person legally in possession of the gaming chip or plaque, and shall remain the property of the issuing casino licensee. Each casino licensee shall have the right at any time to demand that the person in possession of the gaming chip or plaque surrender the item for redemption in accordance with (g) below.

(g) Each casino licensee shall redeem promptly its own genuine gaming chips and gaming plaques presented by a patron in person, except when the gaming chips or plaques were obtained or being used unlawfully. A casino licensee shall redeem its value chips or gaming plaques by accepting them in exchange for an equivalent amount of cash, except that:

1. Upon request by a patron who surrenders value chips or gaming plaques in any amount over $ 100.00, a casino licensee shall exchange them for a casino check of that casino licensee in the amount of the value chips or gaming plaques surrendered and dated the day of such redemption; and

2. A casino licensee may apply all or any part of the value chips or gaming plaques presented by a patron to the redemption of any Counter Check or Slot Counter Check drawn by the patron, or to the payment of any returned check, provided that the casino licensee has given that patron prior written notice of such right of setoff and has obtained the patron's written acknowledgment thereof:

i. As part of the patron's credit application;

ii. In a separate writing, which shall be maintained in the patron's credit file; or

iii. On a Counter Check or Slot Counter Check drawn by the patron and issued; provided that the patron specifically acknowledges the notice by signing his or her name thereunder or in any other manner in accordance with internal controls, and further provided that a photocopy of the signed Counter Check or Slot Counter Check shall be maintained in the patron's credit file.

(h) Each casino licensee shall accept, exchange, use or redeem only gaming chips or plaques that it has issued and shall not knowingly accept, exchange, use or redeem gaming chips or plaques, or objects purporting to be gaming chips or plaques, that have been issued by any other person, except that a casino licensee may accept and redeem:

1. Gaming chips or plaques issued by another legally operated casino licensee from a patron upon the patron's representation that such chips or plaques had been purchased or received as payment in a gaming transaction from an employee of such licensee working on the premises; or

2. Gaming chips issued by any other legally operated casino licensee from one of its employees who is authorized to receive gratuities, upon the employee's representation that such chips were received as gratuities in the normal course of his or her duties while on the premises of the casino licensee.

(i) Employees of a casino licensee who are authorized to receive gaming chips as personal gratuities may redeem the gaming chips at the cashiers' cage or at another secure location in the casino hotel as approved by the Division. Gaming chips redeemed by employees at a non-cage employee redemption site shall be exchanged on a daily basis with the cashiers' cage in accordance with the casino licensee's internal control procedures.

(j) Each casino licensee shall redeem promptly its own genuine value chips and gaming plaques presented to it by any other legally operated casino licensee upon the representation that such chips and plaques were received or accepted unknowingly, inadvertently or in error or were redeemed in accordance with the provisions of (i) above. Each casino licensee shall submit to the Division a system for the exchange, with other legally operated casino licensees, of value chips and gaming plaques:

1. That are in its possession and that have been issued by any other legally operated casino licensee; and

2. That it has issued and that are presented to it for redemption by any other legally operated casino licensee.

(k) Each casino licensee shall cause to be posted and remain posted in a prominent place on the front of the cashiers' cage, any satellite cage, the simulcast counter, the keno booth and any satellite keno booth a sign that reads as follows:

"By law, gaming chips or plaques issued by another casino may not be used, exchanged or redeemed in this casino or casino simulcasting facility."

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N.J. Admin. Code § 13:69E-1.6A

Amended by 50 N.J.R. 612(b), effective 1/16/2018