§ 5-276 — Definitions

Sec. 5-276. - Definitions.

For the purpose of this article the following words shall have the respectively ascribed meanings consistent with the Mississippi Gaming Control Act: Commission or Mississippi Gaming Commission, through September 30, 1993, means the state tax commission, and thereafter means the Mississippi Gaming Commission unless otherwise designated by amendment to the Mississippi Gaming Control Act. Gambling game means any banking or percentage game played with cards, with dice or with any mechanical, electromechanical or electronic device or machine for money, property, checks, credit or any representative of value, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, faro, monte, roulette, keno, fan-tan, twenty-one, blackjack, seven and a half, big injun, klondike, craps, poker, chuck-a-luck (dai shu), wheel of fortune, chemin de fer, baccarat, pai gow, beat the banker, panguingui, slot machine, or any other game or device approved by the commission. Game or gambling game shall not include bingo games or raffles or related games which are held pursuant to the Charitable Bingo Law of the State of Mississippi as provided by provisions of Mississippi Code Annotated § 97-33-50, et seq. Gaming device means any mechanical, electromechanical or electronic contrivance, component or machine used in connection with gaming or any game which affects the result of a wager by determining win or loss. The term includes a system for processing information which can alter the normal criteria of random selection, which affects the operation of any game, or which determines the outcome of a game. The term does not include a system or device which affects a game solely by stopping its operation so that the outcome remains undetermined, and does not include any antique coin machine as defined in Mississippi Code Annotated, Section 27-27-12. Gaming license means any license issued by the state which authorizes the person named therein to engage in gaming. Gross revenue means the total of all of the following, less the total of all cash paid out as losses to patrons and those amounts paid to purchase annuities to fund losses paid to patrons over several years by independent financial institutions: (1) Cash received as winnings; (2) Cash received in payment for credit extended by a licensee to a patron for purposes of gaming; and (3) Compensation received for conducting any game in which the licensee is not party to a wager. For the purposes of this definition, cash or the value of non-cash prizes awarded to patrons in a contest or tournament are not losses. The term does not include: (1) Counterfeit money or tokens; (2) Coins of other countries which are received in gaming devices; (3) Cash taken in fraudulent acts perpetrated against a licensee for which the licensee is not reimbursed; or (4) Cash received as entry fees for contests or tournaments in which the patrons compete for prizes. License means a gaming license or a manufacturer's, seller's or distributor's license. Licensee means any person to whom a valid license has been issued. Operation means the conduct of gaming. Person means any association, corporation, firm, partnership, trust or other form of business association as well as a natural person. Premises means land, together with all buildings, improvements, and personal property thereon, and includes all parts of any vessel or cruise vessel. Slot machine means any mechanical, electrical, or other device, contrivance, or machine which, upon insertion of a coin, token, or similar object, or upon payment of any consideration, is available to play or operate, the play or operation of which, whether by reason of the skill of the operator or application of the element of chance, or both, may deliver or entitle the person playing or operating the machine to receive cash, premiums, merchandise, tokens, or anything of value, whether the payoff is made automatically from the machine or in any other manner. This term does not include any antique coin machine as defined in Mississippi Code Annotated, § 27-27-12. Vessel or cruise vessel shall have the meaning ascribed under Mississippi Code Annotated section 27-109-1.

(Ord. No. 1903, § 1, 11-21-91; Ord. No. 1913, § 1, 9-23-92)