(a) A person shall not be employed as a key employee unless that person applies for and obtains a key employee license.

(b) A person shall not be issued a key employee license unless the person would qualify for a state gambling license.

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Terms Used In California Business and Professions Code 19854

  • Department: means the Department of Justice. See California Business and Professions Code 19805
  • Gambling: means to deal, operate, carry on, conduct, maintain, or expose for play a controlled game. See California Business and Professions Code 19805
  • Gambling enterprise: means a natural person or an entity, whether individual, corporate, or otherwise, that conducts a gambling operation and that by virtue is required to hold a state gambling license under this chapter. See California Business and Professions Code 19805
  • Key employee: means a natural person employed in the operation of a gambling enterprise in a supervisory capacity or empowered to make discretionary decisions that regulate gambling operations, including, without limitation, pit bosses, shift bosses, credit executives, cashier operations supervisors, gambling operation managers and assistant managers, managers or supervisors of security employees, or any other natural person designated as a key employee by the department for reasons consistent with the policies of this chapter. See California Business and Professions Code 19805
  • Key employee license: means a state license authorizing the holder to be employed as a key employee. See California Business and Professions Code 19805
  • License: means a gambling license, key employee license, or any other license issued by the commission pursuant to this chapter or regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter. See California Business and Professions Code 19805
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Business and Professions Code 21

(c) A key employee license, once issued, shall authorize a person to act as a key employee until the expiration or revocation of that license and shall entitle the holder to work for any gambling enterprise as a key employee upon proper notice to the department.

(Repealed and added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 302, Sec. 4. (AB 1271) Effective January 1, 2024.)