Regulation of the Government of the Russian Federation of 15 July 2002 # 525
DECISION
OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
NO. 525 OF JULY 15, 2002
ON LICENSING THE ACTIVITIES ON ORGANISATION AND RUNNING OF
TOTALIZATORS AND GAMBLING FACILITIES
See the Reference on the Rules of Licensing the Specific Kinds of
Activities
Government of the Russian Federation hereby resolves:
To approve the attached Regulations on Licensing of Activities
on Organisation and Running of Totalizators and Gambling
Facilities.
Chairman of the Government
of the Russian Federation M. Kasyanov
Regulations
on Licensing the Activities on Organisation and Running
of Totalizators and Gambling Facilities
(approved by Decision of the Government of the Russian
Federation
No. 525 of January 15, 2002)
1. The present Regulations define the procedure of licensing
the activities on organisation and running of totalizators
(intermediary activities of legal entities and individual
entrepreneurs on organization of acceptation of bets from
participants of mutual bets and paying off the prizes) and gambling
facilities, including the bookmaking organizations (bookmakers),
being the organizers - participants of risk-based gambling games.
2. The State Committee for Physical Culture and Sports of the
Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as "licensing body")
shall carry out the licensing the activities on organisation and
running of totalizators and gambling facilities shall be carried
out.
3. Validity of the license on conducting activities on
organisation and running of totalizators and gambling facilities
(hereinafter referred to as "the license") is 5 years.
4. License requirements and conditions while conducting
activities on organisation and running of totalizators and gambling
facilities are the following:
a) completing the staffs of totalizators and gambling
facilities with employees not younger than 18 years old;
b) Totalizators and gambling facilities may not be placed in
the living premises, in the buildings of functioning educational
and medical institutions, and also in the buildings and premises of
the organizations which are engaged in the activities of worship
and other religious activities;
c) at least a three-year work record in the sphere of gambling
business at the chief (one of the chiefs) of the totalizator or
gambling facility
d) availability at a gambling facility a document confirming
conformity of the gaming slot machines with monetary or other prize
used by the gambling facility with the authorized type of gaming
slot machines;
e) creating conditions for personal safety of mutual betting
participants, players and visitors of the totalizator and gambling
facility;
f) observance of rules of the organization of mutual bets and
risk-based gambling games, approved in a statutory manner by a
licensor.
5. To obtain a license the contender for license shall submit
to a licensor the following documents:
a) an application for issuing the license with the indication
of:
the name and a legal-organizational form of the legal entity,
the place of location for the legal entity;
surname, name, a patronymic name, place of residence, data of
the document certifying the person - for an individual
entrepreneur;
licensed activities, which the legal entity or the individual
entrepreneur are going to exercise, and the place of location of
the totalizator and/or the gambling facility;
b) the copies of constituent documents and certificate on the
state registration of the contender for license as a legal entity
(with the presentation of the originals if they are not certified
by a notary) - for a legal entity;
c) a copy of the certificate of state registration of a citizen
as an individual entrepreneur (with presentation of the original if
the copy is not verified by a notary) - for an individual
entrepreneur;
d) a copy of the certificate verifying the delivery of the
licensee's accounts to the tax authority (with presentation of the
original if the copy is not verified by a notary);
e) a document confirming payment of the license fee by the
licensor for consideration of the application for granting the
license;
f) an information on qualification of the employees of the
contender for license.
6. The licensor shall decide to issue or refuse to issue a
license within 60 days from the date of receiving the application
for granting the license with all the necessary documents. The
licensor while issuing the license shall have the right to
scrutinize the conformity of the contender for license to the
license requirements and terms.
7. Checks of the fulfillment by the licensee of the licensing
requirements and terms shall be carried out on the grounds of the
licensing body's instruction, which shall define the licensee, the
time period of the check and the composition of the commission,
conducting the check. An act with indication of concrete
infringements shall be drawn up by results of the check, to be
signed by all members of the commission. The licensee shall be
familiarized with results of the check, And a corresponding note
about the fact of his familiarizing shall be made in the act If the
licensee disagrees with results of the check, he has the right to
state his opinion, which shall be appended to the act of the check.
If the event the licensee refuses to familiarize him with results
of the check the members of the commission shall reflect the fact
in the act and certify it with their signatures.
The time period for conducting the check on removal of the
infringements by the licensee, which led to suspension of the
license validity, shall not exceed 15 days from the date of
receiving from the licensee a notice on elimination of the said
infringements.
8. The licensor shall conducts a register of licenses, which
specifies the following:
a) the licensor's name;
b) licensed activities;
c) an information about the licensee with the indication of his
code in the All-Russian Classification of Enterprises and
Organizations and the taxpayer's identification number:
the name, the location (with the indication of detached
divisions locations), location of the premise used for exercising
the licensed activities, - for a legal entity;
surname, name, patronymic name, place of residence, data of the
personal identification document, location of premise, which will
be used for exercising the licensed activities - for an individual
entrepreneur;
d) a list of game equipment established in the gambling
facility with the indication of its number and the manufacturer;
e) the number of the license and the date when the decision was
taken on issuing the license;
f) term of validity of the license;
g) data on registration of the license in the register of
licenses;
h) the grounds and the dates of the license suspension and
renewal;
i) the grounds and the date of the license cancellation.
9. The licensor shall take decisions on issuing,
reregistration, suspension and renewal of the validity,
cancellation of the license, issuance of duplicates of the license,
and also collection of license fees as defined by the Federal Law
on Licensing Specific Types of Activity.
IS NOT VALID SINCE 22.12.2004