Colorado § 44-30-504 - Operator, slot machine manufacturer or distributor, associated equipment supplier, key employee, support licensee, or retailer - qualifications for licensure.

§ 44-30-504. Operator, slot machine manufacturer or distributor, associated equipment supplier, key employee, support licensee, or retailer - qualifications for licensure.

Before obtaining a license as an operator, slot machine manufacturer or distributor, associated equipment supplier, key employee, support licensee, or retailer, in addition to meeting other requirements of this article 30 or rules of the commission, an applicant must show that he or she is of good moral character. An applicant has the burden of proving his or her qualifications to the satisfaction of the commission. The applicant must submit to and pay for background investigations the commission may order. All payments shall be deposited into the limited gaming fund created in section 44-30-701.

Source: L. 2018: Entire article added with relocations, (SB 18-034), ch. 14, p. 186, § 2, effective October 1.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 12-47.1-505 as it existed prior to 2018.

ANNOTATION

Commission has statutory authority to consider any criminal history of an applicant that could be inimical to the purposes of the Limited Gaming Act, including an examination of a criminal record of seven arrests, conviction of three misdemeanors, and deferred sentences on two other misdemeanors. Moya v. Colo. Gaming Comm'n, 870 P.2d 620 (Colo. App. 1994) (decided under former § 12-47.1-505).