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LR 995
Item 1

 
A.__Investigate or cause to be investigated all complaints
made to the State Police and all violations of this
chapter or the rules adopted under this chapter;

 
B.__Adopt rules, which are routine technical rules as
defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A, to
prevent undesirable conduct relating to the operation of
video lottery terminals, including the following:

 
(1)__The practice of any fraud or deception upon a
player of a video lottery terminal;

 
(2)__The presence of a video lottery terminal in or
at premises that may be unsafe due to fire hazard or
other such conditions;

 
(3)__The use of obscene advertising;

 
(4)__The solicitation on a public way of persons to
play video lottery terminals;

 
(5)__The infiltration of organized crime into the
operation of video lottery terminals or into the
distribution of the terminals;

 
(6)__The presence of disorderly persons in a location
where video lottery terminals are in use; and

 
(7)__In promoting, advertising or otherwise marketing
the operation of video terminals, the use of any
words that describe or characterize such operations
in a manner not otherwise presently legal in the
State;

 
C.__Direct the director to disable any video lottery
terminal if the Chief of the State Police has reason to
believe that:

 
(1)__A person has illegally tampered with the video
lottery terminal;

 
(2)__The funds from the video lottery terminal have
not been distributed, deposited or allocated in
accordance with section 383;

 
(3)__The video lottery terminal does not meet the
licensure requirements of this chapter; or

 
(4)__A licensee is guilty of criminal conduct; and


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