Sections
33 entriesSection 19850Requires anyone who owns, leases, works in, operates, conducts, maintains, deals, or receives specified compensation from a controlled game in California to…Section 19851Requires a gambling-enterprise owner to obtain a state gambling license and places other required individual licenses as endorsements on the owner's certificate.…Section 19852Requires a non-natural-person gambling-enterprise owner, subject to the stated exception, to have specified officers, directors, shareholders, partners, trustees, LLC participants, revenue-share recipients,…Section 19852.2Allows the commission, solely for licensure of a card club on or contiguous to racetrack grounds authorized by January 1, 2012 and…Section 19853Allows the commission to require registration, a suitability finding, or a gambling license from persons receiving gambling-based payments, owning gambling-premises interests, doing…Section 19854Prohibits employment as a key employee without applying for and obtaining a key employee license, and prohibits issuance unless the person would…Section 19855Requires every person who must hold a state license to obtain it before engaging in the licensed activity or occupying the licensed…Section 19856Allows the commission to license an applicant it determines qualified after considering public health, safety, welfare, and state policy, while placing the…Section 19857Prohibits issuing a gambling license unless the commission, based on submitted information and documents, is satisfied the applicant has good character, honesty,…Section 19858Defines persons with prohibited-gambling financial interests as unsuitable for gambling-establishment licensing, except publicly traded or qualified racing associations, specified licensees, and persons…Section 19858.5Allows the commission to deem an applicant or licensee suitable for a state gambling license despite a financial interest in a lawful…Section 19859Requires the commission to deny licenses for failure to establish qualifications or disclosures, disqualifying felonies, dishonesty or moral-turpitude misdemeanors within 10 years,…Section 19860Requires denial of a gambling-establishment license where the local ordinance does not govern operating hours, patron safety, location, wagering limits, and table…Section 19861Allows licensing of a private-club gambling establishment despite not being public if it operated under a qualifying ordinance on December 31, 1997,…Section 19862Allows the commission to deny a gambling license for undue outside-jurisdiction law-enforcement problems, failure to provide a satisfactory economic-feasibility study, or proximity…Section 19863Limits a publicly traded racing association or qualified racing association to operating only one gaming establishment. Requires that sole gaming establishment to…Section 19864Requires applications for a state license or other commission action to be submitted to the department on department-furnished forms. Requires a gambling-license…Section 19865Requires applicants to complete department supplemental forms covering at least the 10 years immediately before filing, including personal history, habits, character, criminal…Section 19866Requires an applicant seeking a license or any approval or consent under the chapter to make full and truthful disclosure to both…Section 19867Requires a license or suitability application to include a chief-set deposit sufficient for anticipated investigation and processing costs, guided by a schedule…Section 19868Requires the department to begin investigating after application materials and fees are filed and, when practicable, act within 180 calendar days; if…Section 19869Allows an applicant to request withdrawal in writing before final commission action, but requires the commission to find withdrawal consistent with the…Section 19870Allows the commission to deny, grant, or refer a license application to an evidentiary hearing and to impose public-interest conditions or restrictions.…Section 19871Sets evidentiary hearings to use sworn oral evidence and gives parties rights to call, examine, cross-examine, and impeach witnesses, introduce exhibits, and…Section 19872Prohibits commission members, applicants, interested persons, and specified department personnel from ex parte communications about the merits of a pending or investigated…Section 19873Prohibits assignment or transfer of any license, whether the attempted assignment or transfer covers the entire license or only part of it.…Section 19874Requires the commission, subject to the referenced limitation, to issue and deliver a license authorizing the licensed activity and listing any specific…Section 19875Requires an owner's gambling license to be posted at all times in a conspicuous place within the area where gambling is conducted…Section 19876Sets a gambling license term at two years, subject to commission discipline, and requires renewal filing at least 120 days before expiration.…Section 19876.5Allows the commission to extend a current work permit or finding of suitability for up to 180 days when a renewal application…Section 19877Allows an owner licensee's failure to file a renewal application by the chapter's deadline to be treated as surrender of the license.…Section 19878Prohibits owner licensees and California affiliates, without prior commission approval, from specified contracts, employment, or payments involving persons denied, suspended, or revoked…Section 19879Limits a person denied a license from profiting from or retaining an interest in a state-license applicant or licensee beyond the commission-set…