New Jersey’s gambling regulator has clarified its position on just how dirty its licensed online gambling operators are allowed to get via their dealings in legally ‘grey’ markets.

On Monday, David Rebuck, director of the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE), published an advisory bulletin on the “impact of operations in grey markets on suitability re licensure,” in which the DGE attempts to clarify what level of grey market operations it will tolerate among its online gambling licensees.

Rebuck says the DGE defines ‘grey’ markets as “jurisdictions where the legality of internet gaming operations is an open question,” while ‘black’ markets are those where governments have “taken affirmative, concrete actions to actively enforce laws that prohibit online gaming, or have issued unequivocal official pronouncements that online gaming is not legal.”

The DGE maintains that operators who do business in black markets “will not be able to establish the ‘good character, honesty and integrity’ required for licensure in New Jersey.”