N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 9 § 5121.4

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 45, November 2, 2024

Section 5121.4 - Cashiers' cage, satellite cages; standards

(a) Each video lottery gaming facility shall have on or immediately adjacent to the gaming floor a physical structure known as a cashiers' cage (cage) to house the cashiers and to serve as the central location in the video lottery gaming facility for the following:

(1) the custody of the cage inventory comprising currency and forms, documents, and records normally associated with the operation of a cage;

(2) the receipt, distribution, and redemption of vouchers in conformity with these regulations; and

(3) such other functions normally associated with the operation of a cashiers' cage.

(b) The cage shall be designed and constructed to provide maximum security for the materials housed therein and the activities performed therein. Such design and construction shall be, at a minimum, as effective as the following:

(1) manually triggered silent alarm systems for the cage, the ancillary office space of the cage and any related video lottery gaming facility vault, which systems shall be connected directly to the monitoring rooms of the closed circuit television system and the video lottery gaming security department office;

(2) double door entry and exit system that will not permit a person to pass through the second door until the first door is securely locked; and

(i) the first door of the double door entry and exit system adjacent to the video lottery gaming floor shall be controlled. The second door of the double door entry and exit system shall be controlled;

(ii) the double door entry and exit system shall have closed circuit television coverage that shall be monitored during all hours of operation by the video lottery gaming surveillance department;

(iii) any entrance to the cage that is not a double door entry and exit system shall be an alarmed emergency exit door only;

(3) the video lottery gaming facility shall identify in such facility's internal control procedures which department will be responsible for controlling these points of access and shall include procedures for managing the security of these points of access.

(c) Each video lottery gaming facility may also have one or more "satellite cages" separate and apart from the cashiers' cage, but adjacent to areas of video lottery gaming operation, established to maximize security, efficient operations, or player convenience and comfort and designed and constructed in accordance with these regulations. Subject to commission approval, a satellite cage may perform any or all of the functions of the cashiers' cage. The functions that are conducted in a satellite cage shall be subject to the applicable accounting controls set forth in these regulations.

(d) Each video lottery gaming agent shall file with the commission the names of all persons having control of the entrance to the cage, any satellite cages, and vaults, as well as all persons able to operate alarm systems for the cage, any satellite cages and vaults.

(e) Whenever the commission or the internal controls of a video lottery gaming agent require or authorize documents to be transported from the cashiers' cage to a satellite cage or from a satellite cage to the cashiers' cage or another satellite cage, the video lottery gaming agent shall, unless the commission or internal control provides otherwise, transport the documents through the use of a video lottery gaming security department representative.

(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of the regulations to the contrary, any video lottery gaming agent that operates two or more video lottery gaming areas within the facility that are physically connected in a manner deemed appropriate by the commission may, with the prior written approval of the commission, operate a single cashiers' cage in one of those video lottery gaming areas to serve as the central location for the functions set forth in subdivision (a) of this section for all of the video lottery gaming areas; provided, however, that the video lottery gaming agent shall be required to operate such satellite cages in each video lottery gaming area as the commission may deem necessary.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 9 § 5121.4