New Mexico Register / Volume XXXVI,
Issue 5 / March 11, 2025
NOTICE
OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING
The Gaming Control
Board hereby gives notice that the Board, at a Regular Board Meeting open to
the public, will consider public comments received and determine whether to
adopt the described rules below.
The Regular Board
Meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 16, 2025
beginning at 9:00 am at the Gaming Control Board, 4900 Alameda Blvd. NE,
Albuquerque, NM 87113. Interested
individuals may also attend via Zoom as follows:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85909302122?pwd=UKa28nW0AZurFQDYYssCfGVWbDmoxf.1
Meeting ID: 859
0930 2122
Passcode: 8Bh6th
The public comment
period for this rulemaking closed with the public comment hearing which
occurred on January 13, 2025.
Subsections D and
E of 15.1.5.15 NMAC Compulsive Gambling Assistance Plan:
Purpose: Amend rule to make
it more current and applicable.
Summary of Full
Text: Changing mandate for board to
establish minimum standards for a compulsive gambling assistance plan, because
it has already been done, to requiring applicants for
gaming operator licenses to comply with those requirements. Reference to 15.1.18.9 NMAC added as
requested at the public comment hearing and recommended by the hearing
officer. Also capitalizes “Department of
Health”
15.1.5.23 NMAC - Application
Fees:
Purpose: Amends rule to update requirements concerning
applications and application fees.
Summary of Full
Text: Updates application fee amounts
that have not been changed since the inception of the agency and removes the
requirement that the board must immediately issue an order denying an applicant
for a gaming license at any time in the application process should they be
deemed not qualified.
Subsection D of 15.1.6.7
NMAC - Definitions
Purpose: Repeal current Rule and replace with
corrections of spelling/grammatical errors.
Summary: Changing “building’s” to “buildings” in
definition of “premises”.
Subsection B of 15.1.18.9 NMAC - Minimum Standards for Compulsive Gambling Assistance
Purpose: Repeal
and replace current rule to update it.
Summary: Capitalizes
“Department of Health” and makes it the responsibility of the Gaming Control
Board’s Responsible Gaming Coordinator to evaluate and made a recommendation to
the Board as to a Compulsive Gambling Assistance Plan.
Authority: Section 60-2E-7 NMSA 1978 and Section 60-2E-8
NMSA 1978.
All written public
comments are posted on the website throughout the written comment period at: https://www.gcb.nm.gov/rulemaking/.
Any person with a
disability who needs a reader, amplifier, qualified sign language interpreter,
or auxiliary aid or service to attend or participate in the hearing should
contact (505) 841-9700.