Ohio Code 3775.10 – Sports gaming proprietor duties
(A) A sports gaming proprietor shall do all of the following:
Terms Used In Ohio Code 3775.10
- Another: when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property. See Ohio Code 1.02
- Commission: means the Ohio casino control commission. See Ohio Code 3775.01
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Sporting event: includes an event that involves athletes or participants who are under eighteen years of age, or the individual performance statistics of athletes or participants in the event, only if the Ohio casino control commission authorizes the event for sports gaming. See Ohio Code 3775.01
- sports gaming: includes any system or method of wagering on sporting events that the Ohio casino control commission approves, including exchange wagering, parlays, spreads, over-under, moneyline, in-game wagering, single game bets, teaser bets, in-play bets, proposition bets, pools, pari-mutuel sports wagering pools, or straight bets. See Ohio Code 3775.01
- Sports gaming equipment: means any of the following that directly relate to or affect, or are used or consumed in, the operation of sports gaming:
(1) Any mechanical, electronic, or other device, mechanism, or equipment, including a self-service sports gaming terminal;
(2) Any software, application, components, or other goods;
(3) Anything to be installed or used on a patron's personal device. See Ohio Code 3775.01
- Sports gaming facility: means a designated area of a building or structure in which patrons may place wagers on sporting events with a type B sports gaming proprietor either in person or using self-service sports gaming terminals. See Ohio Code 3775.01
- Sports gaming proprietor: means a person licensed by the Ohio casino control commission to offer sports gaming in this state as a type A, type B, or type C sports gaming proprietor. See Ohio Code 3775.01
- Sports governing body: means a regional, national, or international organization having ultimate authority over the rules and codes of conduct with respect to a sporting event and the participants in the sporting event. See Ohio Code 3775.01
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
(1) Conduct all sports gaming activities and functions in a manner that does not pose a threat to the public health, safety, or welfare of the citizens of this state;
(2) Adopt comprehensive house rules for game play governing sports gaming transactions with its patrons, including rules that specify the amounts to be paid on winning wagers and the effect of schedule changes, and submit them to the Ohio casino control commission for approval before implementing them. The sports gaming proprietor shall publish its house rules as part of its minimum internal control standards, shall display the house rules, together with any other information the commission considers appropriate, conspicuously in each sports gaming facility and in any other place or manner prescribed by the commission, and shall make copies of its house rules readily available to patrons.
(3) Keep current in all payments and obligations to the commission;
(4) Provide a secure location for the placement, operation, and use of sports gaming equipment;
(5) Prevent any person from tampering with or interfering with the operation of sports gaming;
(6) Employ commercially reasonable methods to prevent the sports gaming proprietor and its agents and employees from disclosing any confidential information in the possession of the sports gaming proprietor that could affect the conduct of sports gaming;
(7) Ensure that sports gaming conducted at a sports gaming facility is within the sight and control of designated employees of the sports gaming proprietor and that sports gaming is conducted under continuous observation by security equipment in conformity with the specifications and requirements of the commission;
(8) Ensure that sports gaming occurs only in the locations and manner approved by the commission;
(9) Ensure that all sports gaming is monitored in accordance with division (I) of section 3775.02 of the Revised Code;
(10) Maintain sufficient funds and other supplies to conduct sports gaming at all times;
(11) Maintain daily records showing the sports gaming proprietor’s sports gaming receipts and timely file with the commission any additional reports required by rule or by other provisions of the Revised Code;
(12) Withhold all required amounts from patrons’ sports gaming winnings;
(13) Submit to the commission, each fiscal year, an audit of the sports gaming proprietor’s financial transactions and the condition of the sports gaming proprietor’s total operations prepared by a certified public accountant in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and applicable state and federal laws;
(14) Submit to the commission, at least once every three years, an audit of the sports gaming proprietor’s information technology systems and security protocols prepared by a qualified, independent, and capable third party, as determined by, and in a manner approved by, the commission;
(15) Promptly provide anonymized sports gaming data to a sports governing body or a state university that submits a valid request for the data under division (B)(13) or (14) of section 3775.02 of the Revised Code.
(B) A sports gaming proprietor immediately shall report to the commission any information in the sports gaming proprietor’s possession related to any of the following:
(1) Any wager in violation of this chapter or rules adopted under this chapter or of federal law;
(2) Abnormal sports gaming activity or patterns that may indicate a concern regarding the integrity of a sporting event;
(3) Suspicious wagering activities;
(4) Any conduct that corrupts a wagering outcome of a sporting event for purposes of financial gain;
(5) Any criminal or disciplinary proceedings commenced against the sports gaming proprietor by any person other than the commission in connection with the sports gaming proprietor’s operations.
(C) A sports gaming proprietor may manage risk associated with wagers by rejecting or pooling one or more wagers or by laying off one or more wagers with another sports gaming proprietor.
(D) A sports gaming proprietor may employ a system that offsets loss or manages risk in the operation of sports gaming under this chapter through the use of a liquidity pool in another jurisdiction in which the sports gaming proprietor or an affiliate or other third party also holds licensure, provided that at all times adequate protections are maintained to ensure sufficient funds are available to pay patrons.
(E) A sports gaming proprietor may provide promotional gaming credits to patrons, subject to oversight by the commission.
(F) If a sports gaming patron does not claim a winning wager from a sports gaming proprietor within one year from the last day on which the sporting event is held, the sports gaming proprietor’s obligation to pay the winnings shall expire, and the sports gaming proprietor shall remit the winnings to the commission, which shall deposit them in the sports gaming revenue fund.
(G) A sports gaming proprietor is not liable under the laws of this state to any party, including a patron, for disclosing information as required under this chapter or for refusing to disclose information that is not required by law to be disclosed.
(H)(1) A sports gaming proprietor shall maintain the confidentiality of any information provided to the sports gaming proprietor by a sports governing body that the sports governing body designates as confidential, except as otherwise required by law or by order of the commission. The sports gaming proprietor shall not use such confidential information for business or marketing purposes, except with the express written approval of the sports governing body.
(2) A sports governing body shall maintain the confidentiality of any information provided to the sports governing body by a sports gaming proprietor that the sports gaming proprietor designates as confidential, except as otherwise required by law or by order of the commission. The sports governing body shall not use such confidential information for business or marketing purposes, except with the express written approval of the sports gaming proprietor.
Last updated February 14, 2022 at 3:59 PM