Casino and Commission Surveillance Room Requirements

PURPOSE: This rule establishes surveillance room requirements. (1) Each riverboat shall have rooms available for the exclusive use of commission agents to monitor and record riverboat gaming operations. Each such room shall be identified as the commission surveillance room. Each riverboat shall also have at least one (1) room for riverboat employees to use for monitoring and recording riverboat gaming operations. Each such room shall be identified as the casino surveillance room. The commission shall designate where the commission surveillance room(s) will be located. (A) All equipment that is utilized to monitor or record must remain solely accessible to the casino surveillance room personnel and be exclusively for riverboat surveillance, except when this equipment is being repaired or replaced. (B) The casino surveillance room shall have trained surveillance personnel present during all casino operating hours. (C) Employees of the riverboat gaming operation assigned to monitoring duties in the casino surveillance room shall have no other gaming-related duties within the riverboat gaming operation. (D) The interior of and entrance to the commission surveillance room and the casino surveillance room shall not be visible to the public. (E) The entrance to the casino surveillance room must be locked or secured at all times. (F) Each riverboat shall have a minimum of sixteen (16) monitors in the casino surveillance room and three (3) monitors in the commission surveillance room. Each room shall have appropriate switching capabilities to insure that all surveillance cameras are accessible to monitors in both surveillance rooms. The equipment in the commission surveillance room must be able to monitor and record anything visible by monitor to employees of the licensee. The commission shall have total control to determine what is visible on the monitors. (G) The commission or commission’s agent shall at all times be afforded immediate access to the casino surveillance room, other surveillance areas and all records relating to this surveillance. (H) The casino surveillance room and the commission surveillance room shall be equipped with all the required surveillance equipment as specified in 11 CSR 45-7.030, and in addition, the commission surveillance room shall be equipped so as to be able to monitor the casino surveillance room. The camera to be placed in the casino surveillance room will meet the requirements as specified in 11 CSR 45-7.030(1)(A), including pan, tilt and zoom capabilities. (I) No other employees may have entrance to the casino surveillance room without permission of the commission. AUTHORITY: sections 313.004, 313.800, 313.805 and 313.824, RSMo 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 June 2, 1995, effective Dec. 30, 1995. Amended: Filed March 1, 1999, effective Oct. 30, 1999. Amended: Filed Feb. 26, 2001, effective Sept. 30, 2001. *Original authority: 313.004, RSMo 1993, amended 1994; 313.800, RSMo 1991, amended 1993, 1994; 313.805, RSMo 1991, amended 1993, 1994, 2000; and 313.824, RSMo 1991, amended 1993.