Required Surveillance

PURPOSE: This rule establishes required surveillance. (1) Every licensee shall conduct and record surveillance which allows clear, unobstructed views in the following areas of the riverboat and the land-based facilities— (A) Overall views of the casino pit areas; (B) All gaming or card table surfaces, including table bank trays, with sufficient clarity to permit identification of all chips, cash and card values, and the outcome of the game. Each gaming table shall have the capability of being viewed by no less than two (2) cameras, and must be continuously viewed by at least one (1) camera; (C) Craps tables open for play must be continuously viewed by at least two (2) cameras; (D) All roulette tables and wheels, recorded in a manner that permits the viewer to observe game outcome and payouts; (E) Continuous views of all areas within cashier cages and booths, including, but not limited to, customer windows, employee windows, cash drawers, vaults, safes, counters, chip and token storage and fill windows. Every transaction occurring within or at the casino cashier cages must be recorded with sufficient clarity to permit identification of currency, chips, tokens, ticket-in/ticket-out tickets, promotional tickets/coupons, jackpot slips, fill slips, paperwork, employees and patrons; (F) All entrance and exit doors to the casino area shall be monitored by the surveillance system. Also, elevators, stairs, ramps and loading and unloading areas shall be monitored if they are utilized for the movement of uncounted moneys, chips or tokens; (G) Continuous views of all areas within a hardcount room and any area where uncounted coin is stored during the drop and count process, including walls, doors, scales, wrapping machines, coin sorters, vaults, safes and general work surfaces; (H) Continuous views of all areas within a softcount room, including walls, doors, drop boxes, vaults, safes and counting surfaces which shall be transparent; including all areas where currency is sorted, stacked, counted, verified or stored, with sufficient clarity to view the currency input, output, and reject areas of currency counters and currency sorters; (I) All areas where cards, dice, cash gaming assets, chips and tokens are stored; (J) Overall views of patrons, dealers, spectators and pit personnel, with sufficient clarity to permit identification; (K) Overall views of the movement of cash, gaming chips and tokens, table numbers, drop boxes and drop buckets; (L) All areas on the general casino floor with sufficient clarity to permit identification of all players, employees, patrons and spectators; and (M) Other areas as the commission may designate through its approval of the licensee’s surveillance plan or as it may require. (2) Every licensee who exposes slot machines for play shall install, maintain, and operate at all times a casino surveillance system that possesses the capability to monitor and record clear, unobstructed, overall and continuous views of all areas that contain slot machines, recorded with sufficient clarity to read external meters, and permit identification of slot machine numbers, reel positions, all players, employees, patrons and spectators; and shall conduct and record surveillance: (A) Which allows clear, unobstructed overall and continuous views of all slot change booths, including their cash drawers, countertops, counting machines, customer windows and employee windows, recorded with sufficient clarity to permit identification of all transactions, cash, paperwork, patrons and employees; and (B) Of each slot machine offering a payout of more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000). AUTHORITY: sections 313.004, 313.805 and 313.824, RSMo Supp. 2000.* 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 Feb. 26, 2001, effective Sept. 30, 2001. Amended: Filed July 28, 2006, effective March 30, 2007. *Original authority: 313.004, RSMo 1993, amended 1994; 313.805, RSMo 1991, amended 1993, 1994, 2000; and 313.824, RSMo 1991, amended 1993.