Gaming Control Board to intensify mask mandate enforcement in casinos

The Nevada Gaming Control Board connected Wednesday said it would intensify enforcement of disguise mandates with COVID-19 cases connected the emergence and thousands of visitors expected successful the authorities for New Year’s Eve.

“As Nevada prepares for a important emergence successful visitation for the New Year’s holiday, the committee volition intensify its enforcement of Emergency Directive 045 astatine each licensed locations taxable to the disguise request to guarantee the information of Nevada’s residents and visitors,” reads a announcement issued by the Control Board to the state’s much than 1,000 gaming licensees.

Emergency Directive 045, issued May 3 by Gov. Steve Sisolak, adopts each recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and authorities wellness and information leaders related to wearing masks.

The Control Board said the directive “requires each person, including afloat vaccinated individuals, to deterioration a disguise successful nationalist indoor settings successful counties with important oregon precocious transmission of COVID-19.” Clark County is among those counties with precocious transmission of the virus.

“The committee reminds its licensees, gaming employees and the wide nationalist that a licensee successful usurpation of immoderate federal, authorities oregon section instrumentality oregon regularisation is simply a usurpation of Nevada Gaming Commission Regulation 5.011, and that the committee whitethorn question disciplinary enactment by the Nevada Gaming Commission for immoderate specified violation,” the announcement says.

Control Board agents routinely marque unannounced visits to casino licensees to cheque for imaginable regulatory violations.

In 2021, the Nevada Gaming Commission disciplined 2 licensees for failing to enforce disguise mandates.

Commissioners successful June ordered a $60,000 good of the Mohegan Sun Casino Las Vegas, the entity operating the casino astatine Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, for its nonaccomplishment to enforce disguise mandates astatine its March opening.

In November, the committee fined The Timbers, a tavern successful Carson City, $10,000, and ordered its owner, Bette Larsen, to surrender her gaming licence for nonaccomplishment to enforce mandates. An incidental successful May was the 2nd clip tavern employees were recovered ignoring disguise mandates.

Contact Richard N. Velotta astatine rvelotta@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-477-3893. Follow @RickVelotta connected Twitter.