(1) Except as provided in Business and Professions Code sections 19844, 19845, 19861 and 19921, all areas of the gambling establishment in which controlled games and gaming activity are being conducted must be open to the public.

(2) No cardroom category licensee may, as a consequence of an employee's refusal to play a controlled game, coerce that employee, or take or threaten to take any action adversely affecting the terms and conditions of employment for that employee. Notwithstanding the forgoing, where an employee's duties or scope of employment includes the play of controlled games, a cardroom category licensee may take action adversely affecting the terms and conditions of employment against that employee for his or her refusal to play a controlled game. This paragraph does not create any new civil liability.

(3) A cardroom business licensee may not have in any room or combination of rooms where controlled games or gaming activities are being conducted, more gaming tables than the total number of tables the cardroom business licensee is authorized to operate, unless all excess gaming tables are covered or prominently labeled as being non-operational and are under continuous recorded video surveillance, in accordance with paragraph (1), subsection (a) of Section 12396.

(4) The sale or redemption of chips must be transacted only by those designated gambling enterprise employee licensees who have received the training required by section 1021.210 (revised as of July 1, 2011) of Chapter X of Title 31 of the Code of Federal Regulations. A cardroom business licensee must have policies and procedures in place to ensure compliance with Section 12315.