Hosting center — Determination of suitability
Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 100, sec. 4
- (a) The Arkansas Racing Commission may, upon recommendation of the commission, require a person or entity owning, operating, or having a significant involvement with a hosting center to file an application for finding of suitability to be associated with licensed gaming, including race book or sports book operations.
(b)
- (1) The commission shall give written notice to a person or entity of its decision to require the filing of an application for a finding of suitability under subsection (a) of this section.
- (2) Unless otherwise stated by the commission in its written notice, a person or entity that has been ordered to file an application for a finding of suitability may continue to own, operate, or otherwise be involved with a hosting center unless and until the commission finds the person unsuitable.
(c) If the commission finds any person or entity to be unsuitable under this section:
- (1) The registration of such person or entity is thereupon cancelled; and
- (2) All registered hosting centers and gaming licensees shall, upon written notification from the commission, terminate any existing relationship, direct or indirect, with such person.
- (d) Failure of a gaming licensee to terminate any association or agreement, direct or indirect, with a person or entity found unsuitable under this section upon receiving written notice of the determination of unsuitability constitutes an unsuitable method of operation.
- (e) Failure of a registered hosting center to terminate any association or agreement with a person or entity found unsuitable under this section upon receiving written notice of the determination of unsuitability shall constitute grounds for the revocation of the hosting center’s registration.
- (f) The commission retains jurisdiction to determine the suitability of a person or entity described in subsection (a) of this section regardless of whether or not that person or entity has severed any relationship with a registered hosting center or gaming licensee.
- (g) Failure on the part of a person or entity described in subsection (a) of this section to submit an application for a finding of suitability within thirty (30) days of being demanded to do so by the commission shall constitute grounds for a finding of unsuitability of that person or entity.