9.01.220 Granting Gaming Licenses

(a) All primary management officials and key employees of the gaming operation must have a gaming license issued by the Commission.

(b) The Commission is responsible for granting and issuing gaming licenses to primary management officials and key employees.

(c) The Commission may license a primary management official or key employee applicant after submitting a notice of results of the applicant's background investigation to the NIGC, as required by this section.

(d) The Commission shall notify the NIGC of the issuance of a license to a primary management official or key employee within 30 days of its issuance.

(e) The Commission shall not employ an individual in a primary management official or key employee position who does not have a license after 90 days of beginning work at the gaming operation.

(f) The Commission must reconsider a license application for a primary management official or key employee if it receives a statement of itemized objections to issuing such a license from the NIGC, and those objections are received within 30 days of the NIGC receiving a notice of results of the applicant's background investigation.

(g) The Commission shall take the NIGC's objections into account when reconsidering a license application.

(h) The Commission will make the final decision whether to issue a license to an applicant for a primary management official or key employee position.

(i) If the Commission has issued a license to a primary management official or key employee before receiving the NIGC's statement of objections, notice and a hearing shall be provided to the licensee, as required by Section 9.01.280 of this chapter.