Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 45, November 9, 2024
Section 1119a.5 - Duties of video gaming establishment licensees(a) An establishment licensee shall train its employees and establish procedures to do all of the following: (1) Identify a video gaming self-excluded person when present in the video gaming area and, upon identification, immediately notify employees of the establishment licensee whose duties include the removal of video gaming self-excluded persons.(2) Deny video gaming related activities to a video gaming self-excluded person.(3) Ensure that video gaming self-excluded persons do not receive, either from the video gaming establishment licensee or any agent thereof, targeted advertisements of video gaming activities at its premises.(4) Notify the Pennsylvania State Police and the Bureau of the presence of a video gaming self-excluded person in the video gaming area.(5) Prepare a report of the presence of a video gaming self-excluded person in a video gaming area on a form provided by the Board and to submit that completed form to the OCPG and the Bureau within 24 hours for each occurrence of a video gaming self-excluded person being present in a video gaming area, which may be submitted by the terminal operator.(6) Make available to patrons written materials provided by the OCPG explaining the video gaming self-exclusion program.(b) The list of video gaming self-excluded persons is confidential, and any distribution of the list to an unauthorized source constitutes a violation of 4 Pa.C.S. Part III (relating to video gaming).(c) Under section 3903 of the act (relating to self-exclusion), establishment licensees and employees thereof may not be liable for damages in any civil action, which is based on the following: (1) Failure to withhold video gaming privileges from or restore video gaming privileges to a video gaming self-excluded person.(2) Permitting or not permitting a video gaming self-excluded person to gamble. (3) Good faith disclosure of the identity of a video gaming self-excluded person to someone, other than those authorized by this chapter, for the purpose of complying with this chapter.(d) An establishment licensee shall report the discovery of a video gaming self-excluded person that did or attempted to engage in video gaming related activities to the director of the OCPG within 24 hours.