Ariz. Admin. Code § 19-2-401

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 18, May 3, 2024

Section R19-2-401 - Definitions

In addition to the definitions in R19-2-102 and R19-2-302, unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions apply in this Article:

1. "Account holder" means "natural person" not otherwise precluded from wagering by any Arizona statute or rule.

2. "Advance deposit wagering (ADW)" means a mechanism for pari-mutuel wagering in which wagers are debited and payouts credited to an advance deposit account held by an association or ADWP on behalf of an account holder.

3. "Advance deposit wagering permit" means a permit issued by the Commission allowing an entity to conduct advance deposit wagering on behalf of a contracted Arizona racetrack permittee.

4. "Advance Deposit Wagering Vendor or Provider (ADWP)" means the Arizona licensed and racetrack permittee-contracted vendor providing advance deposit wagering services for Arizona resident account holders.

5. "Confidential Information" means advance deposit wagering account holders and their accounts; may include money transactions in to or out of accounts, specifics of monies wagered from any account on any race or series of races, the account number and security code of any account holder, the specifics of wagering interests wagered on, the specific identifying details of any account unless authorized by the account holder.

6. "Limited Event Wagering Operator" means a Racetrack enclosure or additional wagering facility that holds a permit issued by the Division of Racing to offer wagers on horseracing and that is licensed under this chapter and that is in compliance with licensure requirements under A.R.S. Title 5, Chapter 11 and A.A.C. Title 19, Chapter 4, Article 1.

7. "Operating Hours" means the hours in which pari-mutuel windows are open at a teletrack facility.

8. "Pari-Mutuel Output Data" means any data provided by the totalisator system other than sales transaction data including, but not limited to, odds, will pays, race results, and pay-off prices.

9. "Racing Program" means the live races conducted at an authorized track, approved dark-day simulcasts and any simulcast races shown to the public in conjunction with live racing on which pari-mutuel wagering is allowed.

10. "Sales transaction data" means the electronic signals transmitted between totalisator ticket-issuing machines or approved ADW wager-issuing equipment and the totalizator central processing unit for the purpose of accepting wagers and generating, canceling, and cashing pari-mutuel tickets; also, the financial information resulting from processing sales transaction data, such as handle and revenues.

11. "Sending track" means the enclosure where a racing program of authorized live racing is conducted and from which teletracking originates.

12. "Telephone" means any device that a person uses for voice communications in connection with the services of a telephone company , but does not include digital devices utilizing non-verbal communications.

13. "Teletrack facility" means an additional wagering facility owned or leased by an Arizona permittee that is used for handling legal wagers.

14. "Teletracking" means the telecast of live audio and visual signals of live or simulcast horse, mule, or greyhound racing programs conducted at an authorized enclosure within Arizona to an authorized additional wagering facility within Arizona, by a racetrack permittee for the purpose of pari-mutuel wagering, or the teletrack wagering conducted on the racing program.

15. "Teletrack wagering" means pari-mutuel wagering conducted at a teletrack facility within Arizona on a racing program conducted at an authorized track within Arizona regardless of whether the racing program is telecast to the teletrack location.

16. "Teletrack wagering permit" means a permit issued by the Commission authorizing an Arizona racetrack permittee to operate a single or multiple teletrack wagering facilities within the state for the purpose of pari-mutuel wagering.

17. "TIM-to-tote linkage" means the connection in which ticket issuing machines (TIM) are directly connected to the permittee's own calculating or compiling totalizator with no intermediate totalisator systems within that connection.

18. "Tote-to-tote linkage" means the connection between totalisator systems in which one of the systems is not part of the permittee's calculating system and may or may not be used for the compilation of TIM-to-tote wagers within its own wagering network that are then forwarded to the permittee's calculating totalisator system.

19. "Transmission" means the point-to-point sending and receiving of an audio or visual signal by any method approved by the Arizona Department of Racing.

Ariz. Admin. Code § R19-2-401

Adopted effective April 3, 1984 (Supp. 84-2). Amended by adding paragraphs (8) and (9) effective August 21, 1985 (Supp. 85-4). Repealed effective December 14, 1994 (Supp. 94-4). R19-2-401 recodified from R4-27-401 (Supp. 95-1). New Section adopted effective February 26, 1996, pursuant to an exemption from the rulemaking process (Supp. 96-1). Amended effective July 22, 1998, pursuant to an exemption from the rulemaking process (Supp. 98-3). Amended by exempt rulemaking at 5 A.A.R. 532, effective January 29, 1999 (Supp. 99-1). Amended by exempt rulemaking at 20 A.A.R. 2874, effective 10/10/2014. Amended by exempt rulemaking at 21 A.A.R. 643, effective 4/20/2015. Amended by exempt rulemaking at 27 A.A.R. 1437, effective 8/20/2021.

Section R19-2-401 was adopted and subsequently amended under an exemption from the provisions of the Arizona Administrative Procedure Act pursuant to A.R.S. § 41-1005(A)(18). Exemption from the rulemaking process means that the agency did not submit these rules to the Secretary of State's Office for publication in the Register as proposed rules, the agency was not required to accept public comment, and the rules were not approved by either the Governor's Regulatory Review Council or the Attorney General.