Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3772 - Casino Gaming

• Section 3772.01 - Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (A) "Applicant" means any person who applies to the commission for a license under this chapter. (B) "Casino control...
• Section 3772.02 - Ohio Casino Control Commission; Creation; Members; Meetings.
  (A) There is hereby created the Ohio casino control commission described in Section 6(C)(1) of Article XV, Ohio Constitution. (B) The commission shall consist...
• Section 3772.03 - Authority Of Commission; Adoption Of Rules.
  (A) To ensure the integrity of casino gaming, the commission shall have authority to complete the functions of licensing, regulating, investigating, and penalizing casino...
• Section 3772.031 - List Of Persons Who Are To Be Excluded Or Ejected From A Facility; Factors For Consideration.
  (A) The general assembly finds that the exclusion or ejection of certain persons from casino facilities is necessary to effectuate the intents and purposes...
• Section 3772.032 - Permanent Joint Committee On Gaming And Wagering.
  (A) The permanent joint committee on gaming and wagering is established. The committee consists of six members. The speaker of the house of representatives...
• Section 3772.033 - Powers Of Commission.
  In carrying out the responsibilities vested in the commission by this chapter, the commission may do all the following and may designate any such...
• Section 3772.034 - Immunity From Liability.
  Absent gross negligence, a casino operator, management company, holding company, gaming-related vendor, the state, and employees of those entities are entitled to immunity from...
• Section 3772.04 - Adjudications; Hearings; Orders.
  (A) (1) If the commission concludes that a license required by this chapter should be limited, conditioned, restricted, suspended, revoked, denied, or not renewed,...
• Section 3772.05 - Access To Records; Examination Of Officers, Agents Or Employees.
  To carry out the provisions of this chapter and other enforcement provisions provided for under the laws of this state, under their established duties...
• Section 3772.051 - Audits Of Ceased Gaming Operation.
  Upon cessation of gaming operations, a former licensee shall furnish, upon the demand of the commission, books, papers, and other records as necessary for...
• Section 3772.06 - Executive Director.
  (A) (1) The commission shall appoint an executive director who shall serve at the pleasure of the commission. The executive director is in the...
• Section 3772.061 - Internal Auditing Department.
  The executive director of the commission shall appoint the number of professional, technical, and clerical employees that is necessary, in the executive director's reasonable...
• Section 3772.062 - Gambling And Addiction Services; Toll-free Telephone Numbers.
  (A) The executive director of the commission shall enter into an agreement with the department of mental health and addiction services under which the...
• Section 3772.07 - Criminal Records Checks.
  The following appointing or licensing authorities shall obtain a criminal records check of the person who is to be appointed or licensed: (A) The...
• Section 3772.08 - Licensed Operators; Permitted Activities.
  (A) Casino gaming shall be conducted only by licensed casino operators of the four casino facilities or by a licensed management company retained by...
• Section 3772.09 - License; Required Documentation.
  (A) No casino operator, management company, holding company, gaming-related vendor, key employee, or casino gaming employee shall conduct or participate in conducting casino gaming...
• Section 3772.091 - Licenses Not Transferable; Initial License; When New License Required.
  (A) No license issued under this chapter is transferable. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, new majority ownership interest or control...
• Section 3772.10 - Granting Or Maintaining Privileges; Considerations.
  (A) In determining whether to grant or maintain the privilege of a casino operator, management company, holding company, key employee, casino gaming employee, or...
• Section 3772.11 - Application For License; Contents.
  (A) A person may apply to the commission for a casino operator, management company, or holding company license to conduct casino gaming at a...
• Section 3772.111 - Granting Of Casino Operator License; Additional Considerations.
  In determining whether to grant a casino operator license, the commission shall also consider: (A) The facilities or proposed facilities for the conduct of...
• Section 3772.112 - Surety Bond.
  Before a license is issued to a casino operator, the casino operator shall post, and thereafter shall maintain, a surety bond in the amount...
• Section 3772.12 - Gaming-related Vendor License.
  (A) A person may apply for a gaming-related vendor license. All applications shall be made under oath. (B) A person who holds a gaming-related...
• Section 3772.121 - Qualifications For Gaming-related Vendor License.
  (A) The commission may issue a gaming-related vendor's license under this chapter to an applicant who has: (1) Applied for the gaming-related vendor's license;...
• Section 3772.13 - Key Employee License.
  (A) No person may be employed as a key employee of a casino operator, management company, or holding company unless the person is the...
• Section 3772.131 - Casino Gaming Employee License.
  (A) All casino gaming employees are required to have a casino gaming employee license. "Casino gaming employee" means the following and their supervisors: (1)...
• Section 3772.14 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.126, HB 386, §2, eff. 6/11/2012.
• Section 3772.15 - Renewal Of License.
  (A) Unless a license issued under this chapter is suspended, expires, or is revoked, the license shall be renewed for three years, as determined...
• Section 3772.16 - Confidential Information.
  (A) Any information concerning the following submitted, collected, or gathered as part of an application to the commission for a license under this chapter...
• Section 3772.17 - Fees.
  (A) The upfront license fee to obtain a license as a casino operator shall be fifty million dollars per casino facility and shall be...
• Section 3772.18 - Information To Be Provided To Commission.
  (A) Each casino operator, management company, and holding company involved in the application and ownership or management of a casino facility shall provide to...
• Section 3772.19 - Limitations On Majority Interest Holders.
  A person shall not hold a majority ownership interest in, or be a management company for, more than two casino facilities at any one...
• Section 3772.20 - Slot Machines; Minimum And Maximum Wagers.
  (A) A maximum of five thousand slot machines may be operated at a casino facility. Each casino operator for each casino facility shall determine...
• Section 3772.21 - Purchase Or Lease Of Equipment And Supplies.
  (A) Casino gaming equipment and supplies customarily used in conducting casino gaming shall be purchased or leased only from gaming-related vendors licensed under this...
• Section 3772.22 - Cashless Wagering System.
  (A) All casino facility operations shall use a cashless wagering system whereby all wagerers' money is converted to chips, tokens, tickets, electronic cards, or...
• Section 3772.23 - Purchase Of Tokens, Chips, Or Electronic Cards; Promotional Gaming Credits; Prohibited Licenses.
  (A) All tokens, chips, or electronic cards that are used to make wagers shall be purchased from the casino operator or management company while...
• Section 3772.24 - Employees Under Age Twenty-one; Notification Of Operating Hours.
  (A) An employee of a casino facility who is between eighteen and twenty-one years of age may be present in the area of a...
• Section 3772.25 - Activities Not Subject To Chapter.
  The following are not subject to, or limited by, the requirements of this chapter or Section 6(C) of Article XV, Ohio Constitution: (A) Charitable...
• Section 3772.26 - Applicability Of Health And Building Codes.
  (A) Each of the four casino facilities shall be subject to all applicable state laws and local ordinances related to health and building codes,...
• Section 3772.27 - Initial Investment.
  (A) Each initial licensed casino operator of each of the four casino facilities shall make an initial investment of at least two hundred fifty...
• Section 3772.28 - Approval For Debt Transactions.
  (A) A licensed casino operator shall not enter into a debt transaction without the approval of the commission. The licensed casino operator shall submit,...
• Section 3772.29 - Exempt Shipments.
  All shipments of gaming supplies, devices, and equipment, including slot machines, into this state are exempt from section (2) of "An Act to Prohibit...
• Section 3772.30 - Enforcement Of Chapter; Authority Of Attorney General.
  (A) If any person violates this chapter or a rule adopted thereunder, the attorney general has a cause of action to restrain the violation....
• Section 3772.31 - Central System For Operation And Reporting; Testing Of Equipment.
  (A) The commission, by and through the executive director of the commission and as required under section 125.05 of the Revised Code, may enter...
• Section 3772.32 - Administration By Conservator.
  (A) As used in this section, "conservator" means a person appointed by a court of common pleas as a fiduciary to temporarily manage and...
• Section 3772.33 - Construction Of Sections 3772.091, 3772.17, And .
  The provisions of sections 3772.091, 3772.17, and 3772.33 of the Revised Code, and their applications, constitute a unity and are interdependent and interrelated. If...
• Section 3772.34 - Casino Operator Settlement Fund.
  There is hereby created in the state treasury the casino operator settlement fund. The fund shall receive any money paid to the state by...
• Section 3772.35 - Legal Actions; Jurisdiction.
  (A) Any action asserting that this chapter, any portion of this chapter, or any rule adopted under this chapter violates any provision of the...
• Section 3772.36 - Casino Control Commission Enforcement Fund.
  (A) There is hereby created in the state treasury the casino control commission enforcement fund. All moneys that are derived from any fines, mandatory...
• Section 3772.99 - Enforcement Of Chapter.
  (A) The commission shall levy and collect penalties for noncriminal violations of this chapter. Noncriminal violations include using the term "casino" in any advertisement...

Last modified: October 10, 2016