Chapter 23K - THE MASSACHUSETTS GAMING COMMISSION
- Section 23K:1 - Legislative declarations
- Section 23K:2 - Definitions
- Section 23K:3 - Massachusetts gaming commission; establishment; commissioners; executive director; employees
- Section 23K:4 - Powers of commission
- Section 23K:5 - Regulations for implementation, administration, and enforcement; emergency regulations
- Section 23K:6 - Investigations and enforcement bureau
- Section 23K:7 - Administration and enforcement of laws related to pari-mutuel wagering and simulcasting; grant of simulcasting license to gaming establishment or entity previously licensed pursuant to chapters 128A or 128C
- Section 23K:8 - Issuance of request for category 1 and 2 licenses; advertisement of requests; deadlines for receipt of applications
- Section 23K:9 - Form of application for gaming licenses; applications to be public record
- Section 23K:10 - Category 1 licenses: capital investment; failure to begin gaming operations; determination of licensing fees
- Section 23K:11 - Category 2 licenses: capital investment; determination of licensing fees
- Section 23K:12 - Investigation of suitability of applicants
- Section 23K:13 - Applicants to establish individual qualifications for licensure by clear and convincing evidence; continuing duty of applicant to provide assistance or information required by commission; willfully withholding information from, or providing false information to, commission
- Section 23K:14 - Licensing of those with financial interest in gaming establishment
- Section 23K:15 - Criteria for eligibility to receive gaming license
- Section 23K:16 - Cause for denial of application for gaming license
- Section 23K:17 - Identification of surrounding communities and impacted live entertainment venues of proposed gaming establishments; public hearing; approval or denial of application
- Section 23K:18 - Statement of findings
- Section 23K:19 - Category 1 licenses
- Section 23K:20 - Category 2 licenses
- Section 23K:21 - Licensing conditions
- Section 23K:22 - Sale, assignment, transfer, pledge, etc., of security issued by corporation holding gaming license; change of corporation officers or members
- Section 23K:23 - Annual report to commission; action by commission
- Section 23K:24 - Live racing licenses
- Section 23K:25 - Further conditions for licensees
- Section 23K:26 - Gaming beverage licenses
- Section 23K:27 - Conditions on issuance of credit to patron of gaming establishment; loans; cashing of checks; debt collection
- Section 23K:28 - Complimentary services or items
- Section 23K:29 - Cashless wagering systems
- Section 23K:30 - Licensing and registration of employees of gaming licensee
- Section 23K:31 - Licensing and registration of persons conducting business with gaming licensee; gaming vendor licenses
- Section 23K:32 - Registration of labor organizations seeking to represent employees of gaming establishment
- Section 23K:33 - Authorization of junkets
- Section 23K:34 - Revocation or suspension of gaming license
- Section 23K:35 - Duties of bureau
- Section 23K:36 - Assessment of civil administrative penalty by bureau
- Section 23K:37 - Punishment for violation of chapter
- Section 23K:38 - Punishment for impeding or interfering with bureau, commissioner, or division
- Section 23K:39 - Cheating, sleight of hand, or swindling
- Section 23K:40 - Possession of cheating and swindling devices or games
- Section 23K:41 - Manufacture, distribution, sale, or servicing of gaming devices for purpose of defrauding, cheating, or stealing
- Section 23K:42 - Devices, games, or gaming devices in violation of chapter subject to seizure and forfeiture
- Section 23K:43 - Age requirement
- Section 23K:44 - Penalties deposited into Gaming Revenue Fund
- Section 23K:45 - List of excluded persons
- Section 23K:46 - Contributions by gaming license applicants or affiliates to public officials
- Section 23K:47 - Disclosure of political contributions
- Section 23K:48 - Gaming licensees subject to chapters 62 to 62E and chapters 63 to 63B
- Section 23K:49 - Applicability of other laws to gaming establishments; exclusion of gaming establishment and businesses located therein from eligibility for certain credits or deductions in chapters 62 or 63
- Section 23K:50 - Liability to commonwealth
- Section 23K:51 - Disbursement of cash or prize in excess of $600 in cases where winner owes past-due child support
- Section 23K:52 - Monthly transmission of list of persons awarded cash winnings or prizes in excess of $600
- Section 23K:53 - Unclaimed cash and prizes
- Section 23K:54 - Cash or prizes for persons under 21 years of age
- Section 23K:55 - Taxes for licensees
- Section 23K:56 - Fees
- Section 23K:57 - Massachusetts Gaming Control Fund
- Section 23K:58 - Public Health Trust Fund
- Section 23K:59 - Gaming Revenue Fund
- Section 23K:60 - Race Horse Development Fund
- Section 23K:61 - Community Mitigation Fund
- Section 23K:62 - Transportation Infrastructure and Development Fund
- Section 23K:63 - Gaming Local Aid Fund
- Section 23K:64 - Education Fund
- Section 23K:65 - Audit of gaming licensees
- Section 23K:66 - Testing of slot machines and other gaming equipment
- Section 23K:67 - Evaluation of status of Indian tribes for purpose of establishing Class III gaming on tribal land
- Section 23K:68 - Gaming policy advisory committee; subcommittee on community mitigation; subcommittee on addiction services; subcommittee on public safety; local community mitigation advisory committees
- Section 23K:69 - Monthly and annual reports by commission on gaming revenues, prize disbursements, and other expenses
- Section 23K:70 - Annual report of commission's activities
- Section 23K:71 - Annual research agenda