Protection of minors and underage youth

205 CMR: MASSACHUSETTS GAMING COMMISSION

205 CMR 150.00: PROTECTION OF MINORS AND UNDERAGE YOUTH

Section

150.01: Preventing Gambling and Entry to Gaming Area by Underage Persons 150.02: Monitoring the Premises for Unattended Minors 150.03: Advertising and Marketing Guidelines 150.04: Preventing the Service of Alcohol to Underage Persons 150.05: Reporting Requirements Related to Minors and Underage Persons

150.01: Preventing Gambling and Entry to Gaming Area by Underage Persons

Each gaming licensee shall implement policies, procedures, and practices designed to prevent persons younger than 21 years old from gambling and, except for an employee 18 years of age or older who is licensed or registered pursuant to M.G.L. c. 23K and 205 CMR and acting in the performance of the duties the employee is licensed or registered to undertake, from entering a gaming area. The policies, procedures, and practices shall include but not be limited to an ongoing program of training for personnel at the gaming establishment that emphasizes the responsibility of personnel for identifying and preventing such activity by persons younger than 21 years old. Identifiable winnings or losses arising as a result of such prohibited gaming in a gaming establishment by a person younger than 21 years old shall be remitted to the commission for deposit into the Gaming Revenue Fund established in M.G.L. c. 23k, § 59.

150.02: Monitoring the Premises for Unattended Minors

(1) Each gaming licensee shall establish policies, procedures, and practices requiring its security and surveillance personnel, or equivalent personnel, to conduct regular checks of parking areas for minors left in motor vehicles and for the immediate report of any such finding to the police department in the host community and to the state police in the Gaming Enforcement Unit.

(2) Each gaming licensee shall establish policies, security procedures, and security practices to ensure the safety of minors on the premises of a gaming establishment, including but not limited to monitoring the premises of the gaming establishment for unattended minors.

150.03: Advertising and Marketing Guidelines

No gaming licensee shall authorize or conduct marketing, advertising, and/or promotional communications or activity relative to gaming that specifically targets persons younger than 21 years old.

150.04: Preventing the Service of Alcohol to Underage Persons

Each gaming licensee shall implement policies, procedures, and practices in accordance with 205 CMR 138.12: Alcoholic Beverage Control to prevent the service of alcoholic beverages to underage persons upon the premises of the gaming establishment.

150.05: Reporting Requirements Related to Minors and Underage Persons

Each gaming licensee shall submit an underage person report to the IEB by the tenth day of each month reporting the following information:

(1) The number of persons younger than 21 years old found in the gaming area;

(2) The number of persons younger than 21 years old found gaming at tables;

(3) The number of persons younger than 21 years old found gaming at slot machines or other electronic gaming devices;

(4) The number of persons younger than 21 years old found consuming alcohol;

(5) The number of persons younger than 21 years old turned over to the proper law enforcement authority; and

(MA REG. # 1289, Dated 6-19-15)

205 CMR: MASSACHUSETTS GAMING COMMISSION

150.05: continued

(6) The number of persons younger than 21 years old escorted from the gaming area.

REGULATORY AUTHORITY

205 CMR 150.00: M.G.L. c. 23K, §§ 5(a); 21(a); 25(h), 54, 58 and 59.