2016 New York Laws
PML - Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law
Article 13 - DESTINATION RESORT GAMING
Title 5 - (1331 - 1346) REQUIREMENTS FOR CONDUCT AND OPERATION OF GAMING
1337 - Gratuities.

  1337.  Gratuities.  1.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for any casino key
  employee or boxman, floorman, or any other  gaming  employee  who  shall
  serve  in a supervisory position to solicit or accept, and for any other
  gaming employee to solicit, any tip  or  gratuity  from  any  player  or
  patron at the gaming facility where he is employed.
2.  A  dealer may accept tips or gratuities from a patron at the table
  at which such dealer is conducting play, subject to  the  provisions  of
  this section. All such tips or gratuities shall be immediately deposited
  in  a  lockbox  reserved for that purpose, unless the tip or gratuity is
  authorized by a patron utilizing an automated wagering  system  approved
  by  the  commission.  All tips or gratuities shall be accounted for, and
  placed in a pool for distribution pro rata among the dealers,  with  the
  distribution  based  upon  the  number  of hours each dealer has worked,
  except that the commission may, by regulation, permit a separate pool to
  be established for dealers in the game of poker, or may permit  tips  or
  gratuities to be retained by individual dealers in the game of poker.
3.  Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision one of this section,
  a gaming facility licensee may require that a percentage  of  the  prize
  pool  offered to participants pursuant to an authorized poker tournament
  be withheld for distribution  to  the  tournament  dealers  as  tips  or
  gratuities as the commission by regulation may approve.