(a) The
Board will maintain a list of authorized gaming service providers and a list of
prohibited gaming service providers. The authorized list will contain the names
of persons who:
(1) Have been registered or
certified.
(2) Are eligible to file
and have filed a completed publicly traded gaming service provider form under
§
437a.1(g)
(relating to general gaming service provider requirements).
(3) Have been authorized to conduct business
with a slot machine licensee or applicant under §
437a.9 (relating to permission to
conduct business prior to certification or registration).
(b) Except as permitted under §
437a.1(a)(2), (d) and
(g) and §
437a.10 (relating to emergency
gaming service provider), a slot machine licensee or applicant may not purchase
goods or services from a gaming service provider, when the employees of the
gaming service provider will be working on the gaming floor or in a restricted
area or compensate a gaming service provider $100,000 or more within a
consecutive 12-month period, unless the gaming service provider is on the
authorized gaming service provider list. A slot machine licensee or applicant
or any affiliate, intermediary, subsidiary or holding company thereof acting on
behalf of the slot machine licensee or applicant may not enter into an
agreement or continue to do business with a gaming service provider on the
prohibited gaming service providers list.
(c) The Board may place a person on the
prohibited gaming service providers list if:
(1) The gaming service provider has failed to
comply with this chapter.
(2) The
gaming service provider has failed to cooperate with Board staff in its review
and investigation of the gaming service provider's application.
(3) The gaming service provider's application
for certification or registration has been denied or withdrawn with prejudice,
or the gaming service provider has had its gaming service provider
certification or registration suspended, revoked, or surrendered with
prejudice.
(4) The gaming service
provider has failed to provide information to a slot machine applicant or
licensee that is necessary for the slot machine applicant or licensee to comply
with this chapter.
(d) A
person seeking to be removed from the list of prohibited gaming service
providers shall file a petition for removal in accordance with §
493a.4 (relating to petitions
generally) and shall be responsible for all costs associated with the person's
petition for removal from the list of prohibited gaming service providers. The
petition must state the specific grounds believed by the petitioner to
constitute good cause for removal from the prohibited gaming service providers
list and how the gaming service provider has cured any deficiencies that led to
the gaming service provider being placed on the prohibited gaming service
providers list.
(e) The Board may
impose a monetary penalty or other appropriate sanction in connection with the
removal of a person from the list of prohibited gaming service providers, or
attach any reasonable condition to the removal of a person from the list of
prohibited gaming service providers.
Notes
The
provisions of this § 437a.8 amended May 22, 2009, effective
5/23/2009, 39 Pa.B. 2588;
amended February 19, 2010, effective 2/20/2010, 40 Pa.B. 975; amended October 22,
2010, effective 10/23/2010, 40
Pa.B. 6083; amended June 12, 2015, effective 6/13/2015, 45 Pa.B. 2829; amended November 1,
2019, effective 11/2/2019, 49
Pa.B. 6676.
The provisions of this § 437a.8 amended under
4
Pa.C.S. §§
1103,
1202(b)(9)-(23) and (30),
1205, 1206(f) and (g), 1207(1) and (2), 1208(1)(iii), 1209(b), 1212, 1213,
1317(c), 1317.1(c), 1317.2, 1321, 1322, 1326, 13A02(1) and (2), 13A11,
13A12-13A14, 13A15, 13A27, 1602, 1604, 1608 and 1802 and Chapter
13.
This section cited in 58 Pa. Code §
437a.10 (relating to emergency
gaming service provider).