Procedure for removing gaming chips and coins from gaming tables

(2) Each table inventory and the table inventory slip prepared in conformity with the procedures set forth in Regulation 31 shall be stored during non-gaming hours in a separate locked, clear container which shall be clearly marked on the outside with the game and the gaming table number to which it corresponds. The information on the table inventory slip shall be visible from the outside of the container. All containers shall be stored either in the Cashier’s Cage during non-gaming hours or secured to the gaming table subject to arrangements for security approved by the Board. Gaming Control 169 (3) The keys to the locked containers containing the table inventories shall be maintained and controlled by the Casino Department in a secure place and shall at no time be made accessible to any Cashier’s Cage personnel or to any person responsible for transporting such table inventories to or from the gaming tables. (1) A request for credit (“request”) shall be prepared by a Casino Supervisor to authorise the preparation of a credit (“credit”) for the removal of gaming chips, coins and plaques to the Cashier’s Cage. The request shall be in duplicate form and 174 Gaming Control access to such form shall, prior to use, be restricted to Casino Supervisors. (2) On the original and the duplicate copy of the request the following information, at a minimum, shall be recorded– (a) the date, time and shift of preparation; (b) the denomination of gaming chips, coins or plaques to be removed from the gaming table; (c) the total amount of each denomination of gaming chips, coins or plaques to be removed from the gaming tables; (d) the game and table number from which the gaming chips, coins or plaques are to be removed; and (e) the signature of the casino supervisor and croupier assigned to the gaming table from which gaming chips, coins or plaques are to be removed. (3) Immediately upon preparation of a request and transfer of gaming chips, coins or plaques to a Security Department Member, a Casino Supervisor shall obtain on the duplicate copy of the request, the signature of the Security Department Member to whom the gaming chips, coins or plaques were transferred and the croupier shall place the duplicate copy in public view on the gaming table from which the gaming chips, coins or plaques were removed, and such request shall not be removed until a credit is received from the fill bank at which time the request and credit are deposited in the drop box. (4) The original of the request shall be transported directly to the Cashier’s Cage by the Security Department Member who shall at the same time transport the gaming chips, coins or plaques removed from the gaming table. Gaming Control 175 (5) A credit shall be prepared by a fill bank cashier whenever gaming chips, coins or plaques are removed from the gaming tables to the Cashier’s Cage. (6) Credits shall be serially pre-numbered forms, each series of credits shall be used in sequential order, and the series number of all credits received by a Casino shall be accounted for by employees with no incompatible functions. All original and duplicate copies of credits shall be marked “VOID” and shall require the signature of the preparer. (7) The following procedures and requirements shall be observed with regard to credits– (a) each series of credits shall be a three part form and shall be inserted in a locked dispenser that will permit an individual slip in the series and its copies to be written upon simultaneously while still locked in the dispenser, and that will discharge the original and duplicate while the triplicate remains in a continuous, unbroken form in the dispenser; (b) access to the triplicate shall be maintained and controlled at all times by employees responsible for controlling and accounting for the unused supply of credits, placing credits in the dispensers, and removing from the dispensers, each day, the triplicates remaining therein. These employees shall have no incompatible functions. (8) On the original, duplicate and triplicate copies of a credit, the preparer shall record, at a minimum, the following information– (a) the denomination of the gaming chips, coins or plaques removed from the gaming table to 176 Gaming Control (b) the total amount of each denomination of gaming chips, coins or plaques removed from the gaming table to the cashier’s cage; (c) the total amount of all denominations of gaming chips, coins, or plaques removed from the gaming table to the cashier’s cage; (d) the game and table number from which the gaming chips, coins or plaques were removed; (e) the date and shift during which the removal of gaming chips, coins or plaques occurs; and (f) the signature of the preparer. (9) Upon preparation, the time of preparation of the credit shall be recorded, at a minimum, on the original and duplicate copy. (10) Signatures attesting to the accuracy of the information contained on the original and the duplicate copy of a credit shall be, at a minimum, the following times– (a) the fill bank cashier upon preparation; (b) the Security Department Member transporting the gaming chips, coins and plaques to the (c) the croupier assigned to the gaming table upon receipt at such table from the Security Department Member; and (d) the Casino Supervisor assigned to the gaming table upon receipt at such table. (11) Upon meeting the signature requirements as described in Regulation (10) above, the Security Department Member Gaming Control 177 transporting the original and duplicate copies of the credit to the gaming table, shall observe the immediate placement by the croupier of the duplicate copies of the credit and request in the drop box attached to the gaming table from which the gaming chips, coins or plaques were removed. The Security Department Member shall expeditiously return the original credit to the fill bank where the original of the credit and request shall be maintained together, and controlled by employees independent of the Casino Department. (12) The original and duplicate copies of “void” credits and the original request and credit, maintained and controlled in conformity with subregulation (11) above shall be forwarded to– (a) the count team for agreement with the duplicate credit and the duplicate request removed from the drop box, after which the request and the original and duplicate credit shall be forwarded to the Accounting Department for agreement, on a daily basis, with the triplicate; or (b) the Accounting Department for agreement, on a daily basis, with the duplicate copies of the credit and request removed from the drop box and the triplicate.