Section 188-A. Powers and duties of the board

The board shall have the
  power and it shall be its duty to:
    1. Supervise the administration of the games of chance  licensing  law
  and  to  adopt,  amend  and  repeal  rules and regulations governing the
  issuance and amendment of licenses  thereunder  and  the  conducting  of
  games  under  such  licenses, which rules and regulations shall have the
  force and effect of law and shall be  binding  upon  all  municipalities
  issuing  licenses, and upon licensees of the board, to the end that such
  licenses shall be issued to qualified  licensees  only,  and  that  said
  games shall be fairly and properly conducted for the purposes and in the
  manner  of  the  said  games  of  chance licensing law prescribed and to
  prevent the games of chance thereby  authorized  to  be  conducted  from
  being  conducted  for  commercial  purposes or purposes other than those
  therein authorized, participated in by  criminal  or  other  undesirable
  elements  and  the  funds derived from the games being diverted from the
  purposes authorized, and to provide uniformity in the administration  of
  said  law  throughout  the  state,  the  board  shall prescribe forms of
  application for licenses, licensees, amendment of licenses,  reports  of
  the conduct of games and other matters incident to the administration of
  such law.
    2.   Conduct,   anywhere   in   the   state,   investigations  of  the
  administration, enforcement and potential or actual  violations  of  the
  games  of  chance  licensing law and of the rules and regulations of the
  board.
    3. Reveiw all determinations and actions of the clerk or department in
  issuing an initial license and it may review the issuance of  subsequent
  licenses  and,  after hearing, revoke those licenses which do not in all
  respects meet the  requirements  of  this  article  and  the  rules  and
  regulations of the board.
    4.  Suspend  or  revoke a license, after hearing, for any violation of
  the provisions of this article or  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the
  board.
    5.  Hear  appeals  from  the  determinations  and action of the clerk,
  department or officer in connection with the refusing to issue licenses,
  the suspension and revocation of licenses and the imposition of fines in
  the manner prescribed by law and the action  and  determination  of  the
  board  upon  any such appeal shall be binding upon the clerk, department
  or officer and all parties thereto.
    6. Carry on continuous study of the operation of the games  of  chance
  licensing   law   to   ascertain  from  time  to  time  defects  therein
  jeopardizing or threatening to jeopardize the purposes of this  article,
  and  to formulate and recommend changes in such law and in other laws of
  the state which  the  board  may  determine  to  be  necessary  for  the
  realization  of  such purposes, and to the same end to make a continuous
  study of the operation and administration of similar laws which  may  be
  in effect in other states of the United States.
    7.  Supervise the disposition of all funds derived from the conduct of
  games of chance by authorized organizations not  currently  licensed  to
  conduct such games.
    8.   Issue   an  identification  number  to  an  applicant  authorized
  organization if it shall determine  that  the  applicant  satisfies  the
  requirements  of  the  games  of  chance licensing law and the rules and
  regulations of the board.
    9. The board shall have the power to approve and establish a  standard
  set  of games of chance equipment and shall by its rules and regulations
  prescribe the manner in which such equipment is  to  be  reproduced  and
  distributed   to   licensed   authorized   organizations.  The  sale  or
  distribution to a licensed  authorized  organization  of  any  equipment

  other  than  that  contained  in  the  standard  set  of games of chance
  equipment shall constitute a violation of this section.