§ 1342. Required exclusion of certain persons. 1. The commission shall, by regulation, provide for the establishment of a list of persons who are to be excluded or ejected from any licensed gaming facility. Such provisions shall define the standards for exclusion, and shall include standards relating to persons:(a) Who are career or professional offenders as defined by regulations promulgated hereunder; or
(b) Who have been convicted of a criminal offense under the laws of any state or of the United States, which is punishable by more than twelve months in prison, or any crime or offense involving moral turpitude. The commission shall promulgate definitions establishing those categories of persons who shall be excluded pursuant to this section, including cheats and persons whose privileges for licensure or registration have been revoked. 2. Any enumerated class listed in subdivision one of section two hundred ninety-six of the human rights law shall not be a reason for placing the name of any person upon such list. 3. The commission may impose sanctions upon a licensed gaming facility or individual licensee or registrant in accordance with the provisions of this article if such gaming facility or individual licensee or registrant knowingly fails to exclude or eject from the premises of any licensed gaming facility any person placed by the commission on the list of persons to be excluded or ejected. 4. Any list compiled by the commission of persons to be excluded or ejected shall not be deemed an all-inclusive list, and licensed gaming facilities shall have a duty to keep from their premises persons known to them to be within the classifications declared in subdivisions one and two of this section and the regulations promulgated thereunder, or known to them to be persons whose presence in a licensed gaming facility would be inimical to the interest of the state or of licensed gaming therein, or both, as defined in standards established by the commission. 5. Prior to placing the name of any person on a list pursuant to this section, the commission shall serve notice of such fact and of the opportunity for a hearing to such person by personal service or by certified mail at the last known address of such person. 6. Within thirty days after service of the petition in accordance with subdivision five of this section, the person named for exclusion or ejection may demand a hearing before the executive director or the executive director's designee, at which hearing the executive director or the executive director's designee shall have the affirmative obligation to demonstrate by substantial evidence that the person named for exclusion or ejection satisfies the criteria for exclusion established by this section and the applicable regulations. Failure to demand such a hearing within thirty days after service shall preclude a person from having an administrative hearing, but shall in no way affect his or her right to judicial review as provided herein. 7. The commission may make a preliminary placement on the list of a person named in a petition for exclusion or ejection pending completion of a hearing on the petition. The hearing on the application for preliminary placement shall be a limited proceeding at which the commission shall have the affirmative obligation to demonstrate by substantial evidence that the person satisfies the criteria for exclusion established by this section and the applicable regulations. If a person has been placed on the list as a result of an application for preliminary placement, unless otherwise agreed by the executive director and the named person, a hearing on the petition for exclusion or ejection shall be initiated within thirty days after the receipt of a demand for such hearing or the date of preliminary placement on the list, whichever is later. 8. If, upon completion of the hearing on the petition for exclusion or ejection, the executive director determines that the person named therein does not satisfy the criteria for exclusion established by this section and the applicable regulations, the executive director shall issue an order denying the petition. If the person named in the petition for exclusion or ejection had been placed on the list as a result of an application for preliminary placement, the executive director shall notify all gaming facility licensees of the person's removal from the list. 9. If, upon completion of a hearing on the petition for exclusion or ejection, the executive director determines that placement of the name of the person on the exclusion list is appropriate, the executive director shall make and enter an order to that effect, which order shall be served on all gaming facility licensees. Such order shall be subject to review by the commission in accordance with regulations promulgated thereunder, which final decision shall be subject to review pursuant to article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules.
