Ohio Code 3775.12 – Sports gaming facilities
(A) A type B sports gaming proprietor may accept wagers on sporting events that are made in person only from individuals who are at least twenty-one years of age and who are physically present in a sports gaming facility.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 3775.12
- 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
- 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 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
(B)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (B)(2) of this section, before accepting any wager on a sporting event, a type B sports gaming proprietor shall require the individual to register with the sports gaming proprietor, provide the individual’s full legal name and any other information required by the Ohio casino control commission or requested by the sports gaming proprietor, and place all wagers on sporting events placed with the sports gaming proprietor through that registration.
(2) A type B sports gaming proprietor may accept an anonymous wager from an individual, so long as the amount of the wager does not exceed a dollar limit determined by the commission by rule.
(C) Except as provided in divisions (C)(1) and (2) of this section, no individual who is under twenty-one years of age shall enter a sports gaming facility.
(1) An employee of a sports gaming proprietor who is eighteen, nineteen, or twenty years of age may be present in a sports gaming facility, so long as the employee’s duties are not related to sports gaming.
(2) An individual who is under twenty-one years of age may enter a sports gaming facility in order to pass to another area where sports gaming is not being conducted, but only if the individual is personally escorted by an employee of the sports gaming proprietor who remains in close proximity to the individual at all times in accordance with the rules of the commission.
Last updated February 14, 2022 at 4:00 PM