Gaming chips: value and non-value chips

(1) Each gaming chip issued by a Casino shall be round in shape and shall have clearly and permanently impressed, engraved or imprinted thereon the name of the Casino issuing it and the specific value (if any) of the chip. (2) A Casino may issue gaming chips without a value impressed, engraved or imprinted thereon for the purpose of gaming at roulette. (3) Gaming chips with a value contained thereon shall be known as “value chips”, and gaming chips without a value contained thereon shall be known as “ non value chips”. (4) Value chips may be issued by a Casino Licensee in denominations of $0.50, $1.00, $2.50, $5.00, $25.00, $100.00, and $500.00 and it shall be within the discretion of the Casino Licensee to determine which of these denominations will be utilised in his Casino and what amount of each denomination will be necessary for the conduct of gaming operations in the Casino. (5) Each denomination of value chip shall have a different primary colour from every other denomination of value chip, as follows: $1 white $2.50 pink $5 Red $25 Green $100 Black $500 purple (6) Each Casino Licensee shall utilise contrasting secondary colours for each denomination of value chips and unless otherwise approved by the Board, no Casino shall use a secondary colour on a specific denomination of chip identical Gaming Control 45 to the secondary colour used by another Casino on that same denomination of chip. (7) Each denomination of value chip used in a Casino shall have depicted in its center portion both the value of the chip and the name of the Casino issuing it. (8) Each non-value chip utilised in a Casino shall be issued solely for the purpose of gaming at roulette. Non-value chips issued at a roulette table shall only be used for gaming at that table, and shall not be used for gaming at any other table in the Casino, nor shall any Casino Licensee or his employees knowingly allow any Casino patron to remove non-value chips from the table from which they were issued. (9) No person at a roulette table shall be issued or permitted to game with non-value chips that are identical in colour and design to value chips or to non-value chips being used by another person at the same table. When a patron purchases non- value chips, the specific value to be assigned to each such chip, if other than the table minimum, shall be indicated by placing a marker button, or other indicator of its value, on top of the specimen of the non-value chip, in a transparent holder with the marker button on top. This holder shall be displayed in a position approved by the Board. (10) Non-value chips shall only be presented for redemption at the table from which they were issued and shall not be redeemed or exchanged at any other location in the Casino. When so presented, the dealer at such table shall exchange them for an equivalent amount of value chips which may then be used by the patron or redeemed as any other value chips. (11) Every Casino Licensee shall have the discretion to permit, limit or prohibit the use of value chips in gaming at roulette provided, however, that it shall be the responsibility of the Casino Licensee and his employees to monitor the wagers being made at roulette with value chips so that the wagers made 46 Gaming Control by one player are not confused with those made by another player at the same table. (12) When every ten or more of any given colour of non- value chips are missing from a roulette table, the remaining chips of that colour shall be taken immediately out of use and retired until such time as the Casino Licensee obtains the approval of a Board Inspector to return such chips to active play. Any non-value chips missing from a roulette table shall be expeditiously reported to the Board.