(1) A manufacturer or distributor of slot machines, associated equipment, or related equipment shall not knowingly, without notifying the division within ten days:
- (a) Have any interest, directly or indirectly, in any operator;
- (b) Allow any of its officers, or any other person with a substantial interest in the business, to have any interest in an operator;
- (c) Employ any person in any capacity or allow any person to represent the business in any way if the person is also employed by an operator;
- (d) Allow any operator or any person having a substantial interest therein, to have any interest, directly or indirectly, in the business.
- (2) The word interest as used in this section does not preclude transactions in the ordinary course of business.
Source: L. 2018: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 18-034), ch. 14, p. 218, § 2, effective October 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-47.1-835 as it existed prior to 2018.