Compensation Restrictions for Lessor, Immediate Family, and Employees

Compensation may not be paid to a lessor, lessor’s immediate family, or lessor’s employees for the conduct of lawful gambling.

EXCEPTIONS:

1. Compensation may be paid if the person is employed by an organization only for the sale of pull-tabs or tipboards from a booth operation at the premises.
2. An employee or a member of the lessor’s immediate family may be compensated for the conduct of gambling at other sites not owned by the lessor.

Compensation may not be paid to a lessor’s employee, such as a waiter or waitress, for gambling-related activities such as auditing closed games for the lessor’s site. An organization may compensate an employee of a lessor for gambling-related activities that are not related to the site owned by the lessor.

Q. May we compensate a member of the lessor’s immediate family (wife) who works off-site auditing games and doing bookkeeping for the premises for which we lease space from her husband?
A. No, because the duties are related to the premises being leased from the lessor (her husband).