System for Ensuring Employees Are Properly Licensed or Registered
Effective Apr 10, 2026Mass. Register #1571MGL c. 23K, §§ 4(28), 5, 25(d), 27 and 28Massachusetts Gaming Commission
(1) A system of internal controls submitted by a gaming licensee in accordance with 205 CMR 138.02 shall include a plan for ensuring that all individuals employed in the gaming establishment are properly licensed or registered in accordance with 205 CMR 134.01: Key Gaming Employee Licensees, 205 CMR 134.02: Gaming Employee Licensees, and 205 CMR 134.03: Gaming Service Employees, and 205 CMR 235.00: Sports, Wagering Occupational Licenses. The system of internal controls shall include without limitation the following:
- (a) Procedures for assuring that only properly licensed and/or registered individuals are employed in each position for which a license or registration is required;
- (b) Procedures to prepare and submit petitions for temporary licenses to individuals for employment in the gaming establishment pursuant to 205 CMR 134.12: Temporary Licenses or 205 CMR 325.06: Temporary Occupational Licenses;
- (c) Procedures to assure the timely renewal of licenses and registrations of individuals employed in the gaming establishment;
- (d) Procedures for terminating or suspending, or modifying the relevant responsibilities of, the employment of individuals licensed or registered pursuant to 205 CMR 134.01: Key Gaming Employee Licensees, 205 CMR 134.02: Gaming Employee Licensees, and 205 CMR 134.03: Gaming Service Employees, 205 CMR 235.00: Sports Wagering Occupational Licenses within 24 hours of notification from the commission that the license, registration, or application of such individual has been revoked, suspended, or denied; and
- (e) Procedures for compliance with the employee reporting information required to be submitted to the commission on a bi-monthly basis in accordance with 205 CMR 138.05(2).
(2) The system of internal controls submitted by a gaming licensee in accordance with 205 CMR 138.02 shall include a plan for reporting the following to the commission on a bimonthly basis and in a format as directed by the commission. For each individual licensed or registered in accordance with 205 CMR 134.00: Licensing and Registration of Employees, Vendors, Junket Enterprises and Representatives, and Labor Organizations, 205 CMR 324.00: Sports Wagering Vendors, and 205 CMR 235.00: Sports Wagering Occupational Licenses:
- (a) License or registration number;
- (b) Last name, first name, middle initial;
- (c) Date of birth;
- (d) Position or job title, represented by a job code that corresponds with a position or job title in the gaming licensee's job compendium;
- (e) Initial hire date;
- (f) Effective date of any change in individual's position or job title;
- (g) Access code, if any, assigned to the individual, designating the restricted areas that the individual is permitted to enter;
(h) For each individual who has been suspended or terminated since the most recent prior report was submitted to the commission:
- 1. The information in 205 CMR 138.05(2)(a) through (g); and
- 2. The effective date of suspension or termination.
- (i) A record of any and all designations to describe categories of employees, including without limitation, "full time", "part time" or "seasonal;" the number of individuals in each category; and the total number of individuals in all categories.
- (j) The date on which the information submitted in the report was compiled.