Ohio Code 3775.11 – Online sports pools
(A) A type A sports gaming proprietor may operate one or more online sports pool web sites and accompanying mobile applications through which the sports gaming proprietor accepts wagers from individuals who are at least twenty-one years of age and who are physically located in this state. The sports gaming proprietor shall use location based technology to prohibit individuals who are not physically present in this state from participating in sports gaming through an online sports pool.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 3775.11
- Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
- Commission: means the Ohio casino control commission. See Ohio Code 3775.01
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Internet: means the international computer network of both federal and nonfederal interoperable packet switched data networks, including the graphical subnetwork known as the world wide web. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Mobile management services provider: means a person that contracts with a type A sports gaming proprietor under section 3775. See Ohio Code 3775.01
- Online sports pool: means sports gaming in which a wager on a sporting event is made through a computer or mobile device and accepted through an online gaming web site that is operated by a type A sports gaming proprietor or mobile management services provider. See Ohio Code 3775.01
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- 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 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
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
(B)(1) As used in division (B) of this section, “sports gaming account” means an electronic account that an individual may establish for the purpose of sports gaming, including making deposits and withdrawals, wagering amounts, and receiving payouts on winning wagers.
(2) A sports gaming proprietor may accept a wager from an individual through an online sports pool only using the individual’s sports gaming account. The sports gaming account shall be in the individual’s full legal name and shall not be in the name of any beneficiary, custodian, joint trust, corporation, partnership, or other organization or entity.
(3) A sports gaming account may be established and funded in person through employees or sales agents of a sports gaming proprietor or, pursuant to rules adopted by the Ohio casino control commission, over the internet through a sports gaming proprietor’s web site or mobile application in a manner that complies with the sports gaming proprietor’s internal controls.
(C) The server responsible for accepting wagers through an online sports pool shall be located in a secure facility in this state.
(D) An online sports pool web site and its accompanying mobile application shall include the name or logo of each of the following in a conspicuous manner:
(1) The type A sports gaming proprietor;
(2) The mobile management services provider that operates the online sports pool on behalf of the type A sports gaming proprietor, if applicable.
Last updated February 14, 2022 at 3:59 PM