LD 1370
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5.__Investigation of nongaming employees.__The state law
enforcement agency may investigate misconduct of employees of
the tribal gaming operator or any other entity who are not
gaming employees but who are employed in ancillary facilities
located within the same building as any gaming facility; and
such employees must be dismissed from such employment upon
notification by the state law enforcement agency that their
conduct in the course of their employment in such ancillary
facilitates poses a threat to the effective regulation of gaming
or creates or enhances the dangers of unfair or illegal
practices, methods and activities in the conduct of gaming,
subject to the same rights of appeal as are provided in the
Maine Administrative Procedure Act.

 
§6306.__Registration of gaming services enterprises

 
1.__Requirement for registration.__An enterprise may not
provide gaming services or gaming equipment to the tribal
gaming operator unless it is the holder of a valid current
gaming services registration issued by the state gaming agency
in accordance with rules adopted by the state gaming agency
pursuant to section 6308.

 
2.__Denial of registration.__The state gaming agency may
deny a gaming services registration to any applicant upon its
determination that the applicant or any principal identified
with such applicant:

 
A.__Is a person or entity whose prior activities, criminal
record, if any, or reputation, habits and associations
pose a threat to the effective regulation of gaming or
create or increase the danger of unfair or illegal
practices, methods and activities in the conduct of the
gaming activities permitted under this subchapter;
provided that the State may not apply standards for
approval of registrations pursuant to this section more
rigorously than those actually applied in the approval of
similar licenses in gaming enterprises operated or
regulated exclusively by the State; or

 
B.__Has failed to provide any information reasonably
required to investigate the application for a gaming
services registration or to reveal any fact material to
such application or has furnished any information that is
untrue or misleading in connection with such application.

 
3.__Revocation or suspension of registration.__The state
gaming agency or the state law enforcement agency may
investigate any enterprise or principal of such enterprise
that holds a gaming services registration license at any time
and the state


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