CHAPTER
Lot 3000 RULES FOR SPORTS WAGERING
PART Lot
3001 PURPOSE AND SCOPE
Lot
3001.02 Purpose. The purpose of this chapter is to
prescribe the requirements for the utilization of the sports wagering platforms
offered by the New Hampshire lottery commission pursuant to RSA 287-I.
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Lot
3001.01 Scope. This
chapter shall apply to all members of the general public
wishing to place a sports wager in New Hampshire.
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PART Lot
3002 DEFINITIONS
Lot 3002.01 “Agent” means “agent”
as defined in RSA 287-I:1, I, namely “a party who is authorized
by contract or agreement with
the commission to conduct a sports book”.
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Lot 3002.02
“Authorized sports bettor” means
“authorized sports bettor” as defined in RSA 287-I,1, II, namely “an individual
18 years of age or older who is physically present in
the state of New Hampshire when placing a sports wager with the commission
or an authorized agent of the commission and is not a prohibited sports bettor.”
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Lot 3002.03 “Betting
ticket” means a physical or electronic document containing a unique
identification code representing
a wager that was placed, received and accepted by a
betting system operated by an agent, and authorized by the commission.
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Lot 3002.04
“Commission” means the New Hampshire
lottery commission established pursuant to RSA 284:21-a, or its designated
staff having authority to perform administrative and clerical functions for the
commission.
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Lot 3002.05 “Prohibited sports bettor”
means “prohibited sports bettor” as defined by RSA 287-I:1, X, namely:
“(a) Any member or employee of the commission and
any spouse, child, sibling, or parent residing in the same household as a
member or employee of the commission.
(b) Any principal or employee of any agent.
(c) Any contractor of the commission or its agents
when such contract relates to the conduct of sports wagering.
(d) Any contractor or employee of an entity that
conducts sports wagering in another jurisdiction when the bettor possesses confidential nonpublic information as a result of
his or her contract or employment relating to the wager being placed.
(e) Any amateur or professional athlete if the
sports wager is based in whole or part on a sport or athletic event overseen by
the athlete's governing sports body.
(f) Any sports agent, owner or employee of a team,
player, umpire, referee, coach, union official, or official of a sports governing body if the sports wager is based in whole
or part on a sport or athletic event overseen by the governing body which
oversees the individual's sport.
(g) Any individual placing a wager as an agent of
or proxy for a prohibited sports bettor.
(h) Any person under the age of 18.”
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Lot 3002.06
“Prohibited sports event” means “prohibited sports event” as defined by RSA
287-I:1, XI, namely:
“(a) A collegiate sports event in which one of the
participants is a collegiate team of a college institution that is primarily located in New Hampshire;
(b) A collegiate sports event that takes place in New Hampshire;
(c) Any high school sports event in any location;
(d) Any amateur sports event where the
participants are primarily under the age of 18; provided that ‘prohibited
sports event’ does not include the games of a collegiate sports tournament in
which a New Hampshire college team participates, nor does it include any
games of a collegiate sports tournament that occurs outside New Hampshire even
though some of the individual games or events are held in New Hampshire; and
provided further that sports wagers are permitted on collegiate sports
tournament games in which a New Hampshire college team participates only if the
outcome of the wager is based on the outcome of all games within the tournament.”
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Lot 3002.07
“Sports wagering” means “sports wagering”
as defined in RSA 287-I:1, XV, namely “wagering on sporting events or any
portion thereof, or on the individual performance statistics of athletes
participating in a sports event, or combination of sports events, by any system
or method of wagering, including but not limited to in person communication and
electronic communication through Internet websites accessed via a mobile device
or computer and mobile device applications. The term sports wagering shall include, but
not be limited to, single game bets, teaser bets, parlays, over-under bets,
money line bets, pools, exchange wagering, in game wagering, in-play bets,
proposition bets, and straight bets”.
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PART Lot
3003 WAGERING RULES
Lot 3003.01 Sports Bettors.
(a)
In accordance with RSA 287-I:1,
II an individual authorized to place a sports wager shall be:
(1) Physically
present in the state of New Hampshire when placing a sports wager; and
(2) Eighteen
years of age or older.
(b)
Individuals under the age of 18 shall be
prohibited from creating a wagering account, wagering, and collecting winning
wagers.
(c)
Pursuant
to RSA 287-I:10, III, any wagers placed from outside of the state of New
Hampshire shall be considered null and void.
(d)
In accordance with RSA 287-I:10, I, no wagers shall be knowingly
accepted or paid by any agent to a prohibited sports bettor as defined by RSA
287-I:1, X and Lot 3002.05 above.
(e)
All accepted and processed wagers shall
be deemed to have been accepted from the individual placing the wager only, and
not on behalf of any entity.
(f)
No
agent or employee of an agent shall accept a wager from a person who the agent
or employee knows or reasonably should know is placing the wager in violation
of state or federal law.
(g)
In the event that there is a dispute as
to whether an individual is deemed a prohibited sports bettor, the commission
shall make a final determination on the eligibility of the individual to wager.
(h)
Such
determination shall:
(1) Be based
on the definition of prohibited sports better as defined in Lot 3002.05; and
(2) Be applicable
to all agents within the State.
(i) Each agent shall
report to the commission any information, including names and ages, relative to
the individuals reasonably known
to them to be prohibited from betting on sports, so that such information can
be used by the commission to create a central database such individuals.
(j)
Information
housed on the central database described in (i) above
shall be deemed confidential, and not be subject to requests for documents
pursuant to RSA 91-A.
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Lot
3003.02 General Wagering Rules.
(a)
Wagers shall only be placed through
agents authorized by contract or agreement with the commission to conduct sports wagering.
(b)
The commission shall only approve wagers
on categories of events where:
(1) The outcome can be verified;
(2) The outcome can be generated by a reliable and
independent process; and
(3) The
event is conducted in conformity with applicable laws.
(c)
Sporting events shall be
deemed reliable and verifiable if:
(1) They are governed
by established sports governing bodies, such as the NBA, NFL, and NCAA, with a
history of integrity, and
(2) The outcome is
established through a clear set of rules and procedures of the applicable governing body, which are well known to the sports betting public.
(d)
Each
agent shall adopt, conspicuously display at its authorized premises, and adhere
to written, comprehensive house rules governing wagering transactions with
patrons.
(e)
The
house rules shall include at a minimum:
(1) The method
for calculation and payment of winning wagers;
(2) The effect of schedule changes for a sports event;
(3) The method of notifying bettors of odds or
proposition changes;
(4) Acceptance
of wagers at terms other than those posted;
(5) Expiration
dates for winning tickets;
(6) Circumstances
under which the agent will void a bet;
(7) Treatment
of errors, late bets, and related contingencies;
(8) Method
of contacting the agents or vendor for questions or complaints;
(9) Description of those persons who are
prohibited from wagering with the agents if broader than the prohibited bettors list set forth in
this chapter; and
(10) The
method and location for posting and publishing the approved house rules.
(f)
Except as otherwise provided in law and rules,
all transactions shall be governed by the house rules of the agent with whom
the wager was placed.
(g)
Once a wager is accepted by both
parties, the betting ticket shall not be altered or voided except with the approval of both parties, such as when
a bettor accepts a cash out option offered by the
agent.
(h)
Once a part of a multi-event wager has commenced,
no refunds or changes to the wager shall be permitted except with the approval
of both parties, such as when a bettor accepts a cash
out option offered by the agent.
(i) The authorized sports bettor shall be responsible
for checking his or her betting tickets for accuracy.
(j)
No winning wager shall be paid without
the customer copy of the betting ticket.
(k)
The
commission and its agents shall not be responsible for:
(1) Lost,
stolen, altered or unreadable betting tickets;
(2) Paying
winning tickets resulting from any system or terminal malfunction; and
(3) Wagers
not placed due to a system or terminal malfunction.
(l)
The commission and its agents shall not
be responsible for honoring wagers that were accepted as a
result of material human
or technical error such as odds or terms that are substantially different from
other betting markets on the same event, or odds or terms that are clearly
incorrect or inaccurate on their face.
(m)
Betting tickets shall be void if lost, stolen,
unissued, mutilated, illegible, defective or
incomplete.
(n)
Wagers
shall only be made in accordance with the payment methods specified in RSA
287-I:8.
(o) Pursuant
to RSA 287-I:10, II, no wagers shall be accepted or paid by any agent for
prohibited sports events as defined by RSA 287-I:1, XI and Lot 3002.06 above.
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Lot
3003.03 Payment of Winning Wagers.
(a)
Payment on a winning wager shall only be
made to the person who presents the betting ticket with the winning wager or directly through a
player’s wagering account when the wagering system determines that the player
had a winning wager.
(b)
An
agent shall not make payment on a winning wager to a person who the agent or
employee of the agent knows or reasonably should know is collecting the payment
on behalf of another for monetary consideration or in violation of federal law
or these rules.
(c)
An agent may withhold payment of a
winning wager if the patron refuses to supply identification or any other documentation required by state or
federal law.
(d)
Winning
wagers shall be void one year from the date of the conclusion of the event, or the
conclusion of the last event on a multi-event wager.
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Lot
3003.04 Unclaimed Winnings and Abandoned Accounts.
Unclaimed winnings and abandoned
accounts shall be subject to the following requirements:
(a)
Unclaimed
winnings of over 90 days following the claim period shall be accounted for as
gross gaming revenue and allocated in accordance with the agent’s agreements
with the commission;
(b)
In accordance with RSA 471-C:2, I, player accounts that remain
inactive and unclaimed by the owner for more than 5 years shall be presumed abandoned;
(c)
Abandoned
player accounts under this rule, shall be subject to the state of New Hampshire
abandoned property laws, RSA 471-C; and
(d)
No agent shall charge administration or
maintenance fees for any inactive player account derived from state of New
Hampshire residents at any time for any reason.
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Lot
3003.05 Problem Gambling and Self-exclusion.
(a)
Each agent shall post and make readily
available to its patrons a copy of its responsible gaming plan, which shall
include:
(1) Materials related to problem gaming, resources available to patrons expressing concerns
about problem gaming;
(2) House-imposed
player limits; and
(3) Options
available for patrons to self-exclude from wagering.
(b)
Each agent shall report to the
commission any information, including names, relative to the individuals on its
self-exclusion list, so that such information can be used by the commission to
create a central database of such individuals.
(c)
Information housed on the central
database described in (c) above deemed confidential, and such information shall not be subject to
requests for documents pursuant to RSA 91-A.
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PART
Lot 3004 DISPUTES
Lot 3004.01 Agent’s Dispute Process.
(a) Each agent shall publish a dispute process and make such
publication generally available to the sports wagering public;
(b) A patron who is dissatisfied with any matter
relating to sports wagering may utilize the agent’s grievance
process.
(c) A patron may file a grievance with the agent
either orally or in writing.
(d) The agent shall notify the authorized sports bettor
of the disposition of grievances either orally or in writing for grievances
within 30 days of the grievance being filed.
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Lot 3004.02 Commission Dispute Process.
(a) In the event that a dispute cannot be
resolved to the satisfaction of the patron, the patron may file a complaint
with the commission accordance with Lot 204.
(b) An authorized sports bettor
shall exhaust the agent’s grievance process prior to filing a complaint with
the commission.
(c)
The
commission shall conduct all investigations and subsequent actions in
accordance with Lot 200.
(d)
The decision of the commission shall be final, and not subject to
appeal.
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APPENDIX
A
RULE |
SPECIFIC STATE STATUTE THE RULE IMPLEMENTS |
Lot
3001 |
RSA
287-I:2 |
Lot
3002 |
RSA
287-I:1 |
Lot
3003 |
RSA
287-I:1; RSA 287-I:2; RA 287-I:10; and RSA 287-I:17 |
Lot
3004 |
RSA
287-I:1; RSA 287-I:2; RA 287-I:10; and RSA 287-I:17 |