Safety and Environment

PURPOSE: This rule establishes requirements for safety and environment. (1) The licensee shall maintain the excursion gambling boat in a physically safe and environmentally sound manner so as to protect the health and welfare of all employees and passengers as well as the environment and water quality. (2) The licensee shall provide annually to the commission a safety plan for the operation of the excursion gambling boat. The safety plan shall comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws, and shall include the following: (A) Training of designated employees to ensure the life safety of the public, to include: 1. A description of the training; 2. The frequency of the training; and 3. Documentation of all training; (B) Self-inspection procedures to ensure compliance with life safety standards; (C) Procedures to ensure disabled persons access to the boat; and (D) An Emergency Operations/Response Plan (EOP) that ensures the safety and, when applicable, evacuation of excursion gambling boat employees and guests, to include the disabled, in the event of an emergency within or immediately around the excursion gambling boat. The EOP shall include, but not be limited to, response plans to the following: 1. Medical emergency; 2. Fire; 3. Explosion; 4. Elevator failure; 5. Chemical/biological threat; 6. Person overboard; 7. Tornado and/or severe weather; 8. Flooding; 9. Earthquake; 10. Power failure; 11. Civil disturbance; 12. Bomb threat; 13. Armed intruders/robbery/hostage situations; and 14. Terrorism. (3) The licensee shall provide annually to the commission an environmental plan for the operation of the excursion gambling boat. The environmental plan shall comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws, and shall include the following: (A) Training of designated employees to ensure the protection of the environment and water quality; (B) Self-inspection procedures to ensure compliance with environmental and water quality standards; and (C) Procedures to ensure safe methods for sewage treatment and discharge and disposal of solid waste. AUTHORITY: sections 313.004, 313.805, and 313.824, RSMo 2016.* Emergency rule filed Sept. 1, 1993, effective Sept. 20, 1993, expired Jan. 17, 1994. Emergency rule filed Jan. 5, 1994, effective Jan. 18, 1994, expired Jan. 30, 1994. Original rule filed Sept. 1, 1993, effective Jan. 31, 1994. Amended: Filed March 18, 1996, effective Oct. 30, 1996. Amended: Filed April 26, 2018, effective Dec. 30, 2018. *Original authority: 313.004, RSMo 1993, amended 1994, 2014; 313.805, RSMo 1991, amended 1993, 1994, 2000, 2008, 2010; and 313.824, RSMo 1991, amended 1993.