Dia Gambling
Licensing & Registration
DIA handles licensing, certification, and registration for food businesses, hotels, nursing assistants, health facilities, amusement devices, and social and charitable gambling.
And regulate gambling practices in India that the Imperial Legislative Council enacted The Pubic Gambling Act of In-dia in 1867.5 It restricted most forms of gambling and, crucially, discriminated games of “pure chance” (e.g., betting on the day-to-day price of opium or cotton, amount of rainfall, etc.), which it made.
Complaints
Submit a complaint for DIA to review about:
- Gambling expenditure. Dataset for Class 4 expenditure by district, as well as annual figures for the four main types of gambling activity – TAB racing and sports betting, NZ Lotteries products, gaming machines (outside casinos) and casino gambling. Key performance indicators.
- Gaming machines in pubs and clubs (i.e. Outside a casino) represent 'Class 4' gambling, which the Gambling Act 2003 classifies as high-risk, high-turnover gambling. Class 4 gambling may only be conducted by a corporate society and only to raise money for an authorised (e.g. Community and non-commercial) purpose.
- DIA staff is responsible for inspecting and licensing or certifying health care providers and suppliers, restaurants and grocery stores, social and charitable gambling operations, and hotels and motels.
- DIA suggests that 'gamblers could self-exclude themselves from using particular gambling operators or products (if this function was offered by the operator)'. Alternately, DIA has proposed geo-blocking, which is the technology that companies like Netflix use to restrict content to different countries.
- Restaurants, bars, convenience and grocery stores, home bakeries, food processing plants
- Hotels, motels, or bed-and-breakfast inns
- Nursing homes, assisted living facilities, residential care facilities, hospitals, hospices, elder group homes
- Dependent adult abuse
- Administrative law judges who work for DIA
Records
Dia Gambling Statistics
Diana Gamble
Records requests can be made by filling out DIA's online form, by phone, fax or mail, or in person.
Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals
321 E. 12th Street
Des Moines, Iowa 50319-0083
T: 515.281.7102
F: 515.281.6863
Some records you can access online via DIA's online databases:
If you are a member of the news media and have questions for DIA regarding department operations, please complete our media inquiry form to reach Stefanie Bond, DIA communications director.
Registration for consumable hemp products with DIA is not yet available. We do not have an estimate at this time of when registration will be available or what it will look like. Please check back for updates.
Consumable hemp products include, but are not limited to: food, chew or snuff, or topical application (e.g., lotions, tinctures).
If you have an inquiry about growing hemp or applying for a hemp license or seed permit, please contact the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship at hemp@iowaagriculture.gov 515.725.1470.