(a) The Bureau will provide each cardroom business licensee an invoice, pursuant to Section 12006, by October 1, 2022, and each October 1 thereafter, of their annual fee, as provided in Section 12368.2.

(b) The annual fee may be paid in installments. The cardroom business licensee must submit a written request to the Bureau to make installment payments within 30 calendar days from the date the invoice was served.

(c) A request for installment payments will be considered approved, unless within 14 calendar days of the request being received, the Bureau provides notification, pursuant to Section 12006, that the request has been disapproved. The Bureau will disapprove the request if the cardroom business licensee has a history of failing to make installment payments as required or has not submitted the request pursuant to subsection (b). Installment payments must be made in the year following the request pursuant to subsection (b) as follows: one-third of the annual fee to be submitted no later than January 1, one-third no later than April 1, and the balance no later than June 30. If installment payments were not requested or a request for installment payments was disapproved, the entire amount of the annual fee must be submitted no later than January 1.

(d) The cardroom business license certificate will not be issued until the Bureau has received the annual fee or has approved the cardroom business licensee for installment payments.

(e) Any application for a renewal cardroom business license will not be approved by the Commission until any delinquent annual fees have been paid in full.

(f) No application for a TPPPS contract with a cardroom business licensee may be approved by the Bureau until any delinquent annual fees owed by that cardroom business licensee have been paid in full.