The Commission deems any activity on the part of any
licensee, his agents or employees, that is inimical to the public health,
safety, morals, good order and general welfare of the people of the State of
Mississippi or that would reflect or tend to reflect discredit upon the State
of Mississippi or the gaming industry, to be an unsuitable method of operation
and shall be grounds for disciplinary action by the Commission in accordance
with the Mississippi Gaming Control Act and the regulations of the Commission.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the following acts or
omissions may be determined to be unsuitable methods of operation:
(a) Failure to exercise discretion and sound
judgment to prevent incidents which might reflect on the repute of the State of
Mississippi and act as a detriment to the integrity of the industry;
(b) Permitting persons who are visibly
intoxicated to participate in gaming activity;
(c) Complimentary service of intoxicating
beverage in the casino area to persons who are visibly intoxicated;
(d) Failure to conduct advertising and public
relations activities in accordance with decency, dignity, good taste, honesty
and inoffensiveness;
(e) Catering
to, assisting, employing or associating with, either socially or in business
affairs, persons of notorious or unsavory reputation or who have extensive
police records, or persons who have defied congressional investigative
committees, or other officially constituted bodies acting on behalf of the
United States, or any state, or persons who are associated with or support
subversive movements, or the employing either directly or through a contract,
or any other means, of any firm or individual in any capacity where the repute
of the State of Mississippi or the gaming industry is liable to be damaged
because of the unsuitability of the firm or individual or because of the
unethical methods of operation of the firm or individual;
(f) Employing in a position for which the
individual could be required to obtain a finding of suitability, any person who
has been denied a state gaming license on the grounds of unsuitability or who
has failed or refused to apply for a finding of suitability when so requested
by the Commission;
(g) Employing in
any gaming operation any person whom the Commission or any court has found
guilty of cheating or using any improper device in connection with any game,
whether as a licensee, dealer, or player at a licensed game or device; as well
as any person whose conduct of a licensed game as a dealer or other employee of
a licensee resulted in revocation or suspension of the license of such
licensee;
(h) Failure to comply
with or make provision for compliance with all federal, state and local laws
and regulations pertaining to the operations of a licensed establishment
including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, payment of all
license fees, withholding any payroll taxes, liquor and entertainment taxes and
antitrust and monopoly statutes.
(i) The Mississippi Gaming Commission in the
exercise of its sound discretion can make its own determination of whether or
not the licensee has failed to comply with the aforementioned, but any such
determination shall make use of the established precedents in interpreting the
language of the applicable statutes. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to
affect any right to judicial review;
1.
Possessing or permitting to remain in or upon any licensed premises any cards,
dice, mechanical device or any other cheating device whatever, the use of which
is prohibited by statute or ordinance, or
2. Conducting, carrying on, operating or
dealing any cheating or thieving game or device on the premises, either
knowingly or unknowingly, which may have in any manner been marked, tampered
with or otherwise placed in a condition, or operated in a manner, which tends
to deceive the public or which might make the game more liable to win or lose,
or which tends to alter the normal random selection of criteria which determine
the results of the game;
(j) Failure to conduct gaming operations in
accordance with proper standards of custom, decorum and decency, or permit any
type of conduct in the gaming establishment which reflects or tends to reflect
on the repute of the State of Mississippi and act as a detriment to the gaming
industry;
(k) Issuing credit to a
patron to enable the patron to satisfy a debt owed to another licensee or
person, including an affiliate of the licensee. This subsection shall not
prohibit a licensee from collecting a debt owed to an affiliate of the
licensee;
(l) Denying commission
member, employee or agent, upon proper and lawful demand, access to, inspection
or disclosure of any portion or aspect of a gaming establishment as authorized
by applicable statutes and regulation.