Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4834 – List of persons self-excluded from gaming activity
(a) The Director shall provide by regulation for the establishment of a list of persons self-excluded from gaming activity at video lottery facilities or through the Internet lottery. A person may request placement on the list of self-excluded persons by acknowledging in a manner to be established by the Director that the person is a problem gambler and by agreeing that, during the period of voluntary exclusion, the person may not collect any winnings or recover any losses resulting from any gaming activity at a video lottery facility or through the Internet lottery.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4834
- Director: as used in this subchapter , shall mean the Director of the State Lottery Office. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
- Internet lottery: shall mean all lottery games in which the player's interaction with the game operated by the Office occurs over the Internet (which, for purposes of this chapter, shall include any public or private computer or terminal network, whether linked electronically, wirelessly, through optical networking technology or other means), including Internet ticket games, the Internet video lottery and Internet table games. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
- Video lottery: shall mean any lottery conducted in a video lottery facility with a video lottery machine or a network of linked video lottery machines with an aggregate progression prize or prizes (excluding keno, table games, and the Internet lottery). See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
- Video lottery agent: means a person whom the Director has licensed to conduct table games, video lottery games, sports lottery games, and Internet lottery games and who possesses either a horse racing meet license pursuant to Title 3 or Title 28 of the Delaware Code, a harness racing meet license pursuant to Title 3 of the Delaware Code, or both. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
- Video lottery facility: shall mean a building containing a gaming area. See Delaware Code Title 29 Sec. 4803
- Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) A person may request placement on the list of self-excluded persons for any of the following periods:
(1) Lifetime;
(2) Five years;
(3) One year.
(c) The Director shall establish procedures for placements on and removals from the list of self-excluded persons and procedures for the transmittal to operators of a video lottery facility of identifying information concerning self-excluded persons.
(d) The Director shall require licensed agents of video lottery facilities to establish procedures designed to:
(1) Prevent self-excluded persons from engaging in any gaming activity;
(2) Remove them from any forms of advertising or promotions; and
(3) Deny self-excluded persons access to credit, complimentaries, check cashing privileges, and similar benefits.
(e) The list of self-excluded persons shall be confidential and not open to public inspection under Chapter 100 of this title.
(f) A licensed video lottery agent and the directors, officers and employees of a video lottery agent shall not be liable to any self-excluded person or any other party in any judicial proceeding for any harm, monetary or otherwise, that may arise as a result of the failure of the video lottery facility to withhold gaming privileges to a self-excluded person.
(g) A licensed video lottery agent and the directors, officers and employees of a licensed video lottery agent shall not be liable to any self-excluded person or any other party in any judicial proceeding for any harm, monetary or otherwise, which may arise as a result of disclosure in any manner, other than a wilfully unlawful disclosure, of the identity of any self-excluded person.