New Jersey Statutes 5:5-65.2. Regulations applicable to persons on self-exclusion list; enforcement; sanctions
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 5:5-65.2
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
- State: extends to and includes any State, territory or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia and the Canal Zone. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
b. Money or a thing of value which has been obtained by, or is owed to, a person on the self-exclusion list from a permitted racetrack, licensed off-track wagering facility or account wagering system, exchange wagering system, or fixed odds wagering system as a result of wagers made by that person shall be subject to forfeiture by order of the executive director of the commission, following notice to the person on the self-exclusion list and opportunity to be heard.
Money or a thing of value forfeited shall be deposited into the State General Fund for appropriation by the Legislature to the Department of Human Services to provide funds for compulsive gambling treatment and prevention programs in the State.
c. In a proceeding brought by the commission against a live racing permit holder, the off-track wagering licensee, the account wagering licensee, the exchange wagering licensee, or the fixed odds wagering licensee for a willful violation of the commission’s self-exclusion regulations, the commission may order in addition to a permit or license suspension, a fine not to exceed $5,000 per wagering incident, the forfeiture of money or a thing of value obtained by the permit holder, off-track wagering licensee, account wagering licensee, exchange wagering licensee, or fixed odds wagering licensee from a person on the self-exclusion list and other remedial conditions the commission deems appropriate. Money or a thing of value so forfeited shall be disposed of in the same manner as money or a thing of value forfeited pursuant to subsection b. of this section.
L.2002, c.89, s.2; amended 2011, c.15, s.20; 2021, c.193, s.19.