In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

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1. "Applicant" means any person that has applied for a license as a fantasy sports contest operator or that has been approved for any act related to fantasy sports contests.

2. "Application" means a request to issue a license as a fantasy sports contest operator or to approve any act related to fantasy sports contests.

3. "Athletic event":

(a) Means a real-world professional, collegiate or nationally recognized sports game, contest or competition that involves the physical exertion and skill of the participating individual athletes who are each physically present at the location in which the sports game, contest or competition occurs, and the outcome of the sports game, contest or competition is directly dependent on the performance of the participating athletes.

(b) Includes events involving motor vehicles.

4. "Department" means the department of gaming.

5. "Entry fee" means cash or cash equivalent that is paid by a participant to a fantasy sports contest operator to participate in a fantasy sports contest.

6. "Fantasy sports contest" means a simulated game or contest that is offered to the public with an entry fee and that meets all of the following conditions:

(a) No fantasy sports contest team is composed of the entire roster of a real-world sports team.

(b) No fantasy sports contest team is composed entirely of individual athletes who are members of the same real-world sports team.

(c) Each prize or award or the value of all prizes or awards offered to winning fantasy sports contest players is made known to the fantasy sports contest players in advance of the fantasy sports contest.

(d) Each winning outcome reflects the relative knowledge and skill of the fantasy sports contest players and is determined by the aggregated statistical results of the performance of multiple individual athletes or participants selected by the fantasy sports contest player to form the fantasy sports contest team, whose individual performances in the fantasy sports contest directly correspond with the actual performance of those athletes or participants in the athletic events in which those individual athletes or participants participated.

(e) A winning outcome is not based on randomized or historical events or on the score, point spread or performance in an athletic event of a single real-world sports team, a single athlete or any combination of real-world sports teams.

(f) The fantasy sports contest does not constitute or involve and is not based on any of the following:

(i) Racing that involves animals.

(ii) A game or contest ordinarily offered by a horse track or casino for money, credit or any representative of value, including any races, games or contests that involve horses or that are played with cards or dice.

(iii) A slot machine or other mechanical, electromechanical or electronic device, equipment or machine.

(iv) Poker, blackjack, faro, monte, keno, bingo, fan-tan, twenty-one, seven and a half, klondike, craps, chuck-a-luck, Chinese chuck-a-luck, wheel of fortune, chemin de fer, baccarat, pai gow, beat the banker, panguingue, roulette or other banking or percentage games.

(v) Any other game or device that is authorized or that is not authorized by this state.

(vi) A high school or youth sporting event or any event that is not an athletic event.

(vii) A contest that involves or results in betting on a race, a game, a contest or a sport that constitutes event wagering as defined in section 5-1301.

7. "Fantasy sports contest adjusted revenues" means the amount equal to the total of all entry fees that a fantasy sports contest operator collects from all fantasy sports contest players minus the total of all sums paid out as prizes or awards to all fantasy sports contest players, multiplied by the in-state percentage.

8. "Fantasy sports contest operator" or "operator" means a person that is engaged in the business of professionally conducting paid fantasy sports contests for cash or other prizes or awards for members of the general public that requires cash or cash equivalent as an entry fee to be paid by a member of the general public who participates in a paid fantasy sports contest.

9. "Fantasy sports contest platform" means the hardware, software, firmware, communications technology or other equipment, including operator procedures implemented to allow player participation in digital or online fantasy sports contests, and if supported, the corresponding equipment related to the display of the outcomes, and other similar information necessary to facilitate player participation in which a player is provided with the means to establish a player account and the fantasy sports contest operator is provided with the means to review player accounts, suspend fantasy sports contests, generate various financial transaction and account reports, input outcomes for fantasy sports contests and set any configurable parameters.

10. "Fantasy sports contest player" or "player" means an individual who participates in a fantasy sports contest offered by a fantasy sports contest operator.

11. "Fantasy sports contest team" means the simulated team composed of multiple individual athletes, each of whom is a member of a real-world sports team that a fantasy sports contest player selects to compete in a fantasy sports contest.

12. "Highly experienced player" means a fantasy sports contest player who has done at least one of the following:

(a) Entered more than one thousand fantasy sports contests offered by a single fantasy sports contest operator.

(b) Won more than three prizes or awards valued at $1,000 each or more from a single fantasy sports contest operator.

13. "Holding company" means a corporation, firm, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, trust or other form of business organization that is not an individual and that directly or indirectly does either of the following:

(a) Holds an ownership interest of ten percent or more, as determined by the holding company‘s board, in a fantasy sports contest operator.

(b) Holds voting rights with the power to vote ten percent or more of the outstanding voting rights of a fantasy sports contest operator.

14. "In-state percentage" means for each fantasy sports contest, the percentage, rounded to the nearest tenth of a percent, equal to the total entry fees collected from all in-state participants divided by the total entry fees collected from all participants in the fantasy sports contest, unless otherwise prescribed by the department.

15. "Key employee" means an employee of a fantasy sports contest operator who has the power to exercise significant influence over decisions concerning the fantasy sports contest operator.

16. "License" means an approval that is issued by the department to any person or entity to be involved in a fantasy sports operation.

17. "Management company" means a person retained by a fantasy sports contest operator to manage a fantasy sports contest platform and provide general administration and other operational services.

18. "Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation, association, limited liability company, federally recognized Indian tribe or other legal entity.

19. "Player account" means an account that is established by a patron for the purpose of participating in fantasy sports contests, including deposits, withdrawals, entry fees and payouts.

20. "Prize or award" means anything of value or any amount of cash or cash equivalents.

21. "Protected information" means information related to playing fantasy sports contests by a fantasy sports contest player that is not readily available to the general public and that is obtained as a result of a person’s employment in relation to a fantasy sports contest.

22. "Script" means a list of commands that a fantasy contest-related computer program can execute and that is created by a fantasy sports contest player or by a third party for a fantasy sports contest player to automate processes on a fantasy sports contest platform.