Section 439a.6b. Conditional licenses

(a) The Board may grant an applicant for a gaming junket enterprise license a conditional license to conduct junkets in this Commonwealth. To be eligible to obtain a conditional gaming junket enterprise license, the applicant shall:

(1) Submit completed gaming junket enterprise applications, including the nonrefundable application fees, as posted on the Board’s web site, and pass a preliminary review.

(2) Submit agreements entered into between the slot machine licensee and the gaming junket enterprise or representative.

(3) Be licensed or credentialed, in good standing, to arrange or negotiate the terms of a gaming junket in a jurisdiction in the United States or Canada that the Board has determined has licensing standards that are as comprehensive and thorough and provide similar adequate safeguards as those required under the act.

(4) Pass a preliminary review of the applicant’s criminal history.

(5) Agree, in writing, that the grant of permission to conduct business with a conditional license does not create a right to continue to conduct business and that the Bureau of Licensing may rescind, at any time, the conditional licensure granted to the applicant, with or without prior notice to the applicant, if the Bureau of Licensing is notified that the suitability of the applicant is at issue or the applicant fails to cooperate in the application process.

(b) If the Office of Enforcement Counsel issues a Notice of Recommendation for Denial to an applicant that has received a conditional gaming junket enterprise license, the Bureau of Licensing may rescind the conditional license. If the conditional license is rescinded, the gaming junket enterprise shall cease conducting business by the date specified in the notice of the rescission sent to the conditional licensee.

(c) If the conditional license is rescinded, the Bureau of Licensing will notify the holder of the conditional license and the slot machine licensee by registered mail that:

(1) Permission for the conditional licensee to conduct business has been rescinded.

(2) The slot machine licensee shall cease conducting business with the gaming junket enterprise by the date specified in the notice.

(d) Pending a hearing on the Notice of Recommendation for Denial, the conditional licensee may not seek or conduct new business in this Commonwealth.

(e) The slot machine licensee shall investigate the background and qualifications of the applicant for a gaming junket enterprise license with whom the slot machine licensee intends to have a relationship or enter into a contractual agreement.

(f) The slot machine licensee has an affirmative duty to avoid agreements or relationships with persons applying for a gaming junket enterprise license whose background or association is injurious to the public health, safety, morals, good order and general welfare of the people of this Commonwealth or who threaten the integrity of gaming in this Commonwealth.

(g) The slot machine licensee has a duty to inform Board staff of an action by an applicant for or holder of a gaming junket enterprise license which the slot machine licensee believes would constitute a violation of the act or this part.

The provisions of this § 439a.6b adopted November 7, 2014, effective November 8, 2014, 44 Pa.B. 7057.

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The provisions of this § 439a.6b issued under the Pennsylvania Race Horse Development and Gaming Act, 4 Pa.C.S. § § 1202(b)(15) and (30), 1207(2), (5), (8) and (9), 1212, 13A02(2), 13A26(c), 1509, 1516, 1518(a)(13) and 1602.