North Dakota Administrative Code

tax return for the quarter was filed with the attorney general. Percent-of-accuracy is computed as cash profit divided by adjusted gross proceeds. 13. An employee shall award the last sale cash or merchandise prize to the player who actually buys the last pull tab or punch. 14. A…

This chapter applies to a licensed organization that conducts pull tabs, club specials, tip boards, seal boards, prize boards. The maximum price per chance is two dollars. A prize board, club special, punchboard, seal board, and tip board are conducted as a single game which may …

1. Deals of pull tabs must be commingled for a game as follows: a. Two or more deals must be placed in a receptacle and be thoroughly intermixed. When an organization's predetermined number or range of numbers of winning pull tabs remain in a game as unredeemed, an additional dea…

Records must include and be retained for three years from the end of the quarter in which the activity was reported, unless otherwise provided by rule: 1. All redeemed and unsold pull tabs or punches for a game must be retained as documentation for gross proceeds and prizes for o…

"Electronic pull-tab device" means a device, approved by the attorney general, which electronically displays pull tabs. The device is part of an electronic pull-tab device operating system used in the conduct of electronic pull tabs. After the insertion of cash or the manufacture…

1. An organization may not install more than ten electronic pull-tab devices in a site. A site must be a permanent location and may not be a temporary location, such as a fairground or special event. A device must be clearly labeled so as to inform the public that no one under tw…

1. A bar shall: a. Place an electronic pull-tab device in a location where alcoholic beverages are dispensed and consumed and where a bar employee will regularly observe the device. A device may not be placed outside or in a patio area; b. Prohibit a person from tampering or inte…

1. A bar employee or an organization employee shall ensure that a credit ticket voucher presented for redemption is valid. This includes ensuring the voucher was issued by an electronic pull-tab device at the site and on the date it is presented for redemption. A valid credit tic…

Records must include and be retained for three years from the end of the quarter in which the activity was reported, unless otherwise provided by rule: 1. An interim period electronic pull-tab device activity report according to subdivision a of subsection 22 of section 99-01.3-1…

History: Effective May 1, 1998; amended effective July 1, 2000; July 1, 2002; July 1, 2004; October 1, 2006; April 1, 2016; January 1, 2023. General Authority: NDCC 53-06.1-01.1 Law Implemented: NDCC 53-06.1-01.1, 53-06.1-09

A "sports pool" is comprised of wagers paid by players for a line or square that will determine which player wins. The maximum cost per line or square is twenty-five dollars. The conduct of a sports pool is the selling of chances on the board and awarding of a prize. Only cash pr…

Records must include and be retained for three years from the end of the quarter in which the activity was reported: 1. For each sports-pool board: a. The sold board with the state gaming stamp affixed which must indicate the winning square or line; b. The daily starting and endi…

1. "Twenty-one" is a card game in which a player tries to obtain a higher total card count than a dealer without exceeding twenty-one. An ace counts either one or eleven. A king, queen, and jack have a count of ten. Cards two through ten are counted at their face value. 2. A maxi…

1. If there is more than one table at a site, a table must have a number. A table playing surface must be green and may not contain imprinted graphics, excluding the tip betting spaces, unless authorized by the attorney general. A table playing surface must display no more than s…

1. A wager and tip must be made with chips. If an organization accepts a twenty-five dollar wager, it shall provide twenty-five dollar chips to players for their optional use. Chips may be issued in values of fifty cents, one dollar, two dollars, five dollars, twenty-five dollars…

If a site had twenty-one gross proceeds averaging ten thousand dollars or more per quarter for two entire consecutive quarters, this level of activity is expected to continue, and wagers exceed two dollars, an organization shall have a video surveillance system operational at the…

1. A fill slip must be used to distribute casino and betting chips from a chip bank to a table and a credit slip to return chips from the table to the chip bank. An organization may not transfer or exchange chips directly between two tables. An organization shall use a fill and c…

1. An organization shall sell casino chips at a table only for cash, no checks. A chip may be exchanged for a paddlewheel betting chip at a paddlewheel table. Checks may be cashed by a cashier. Cash for chips sold must be kept separate from all other cash until it has been counte…

1. When playing cards are brought to a table, a dealer shall first approve all decks of cards. Decks must be sorted into sequence, by suit and the back of each card inspected to assure that all cards are present and none are marked, taped, bent, crimped, cut, or shaved. After app…

1. Before starting play, and after each shoe of cards is dealt, a dealer shall, in front of the players, thoroughly shuffle all the cards. As an alternative to a dealer hand shuffling the cards, an organization may use an automatic card shuffling device which complies with sectio…

1. An original wager must be an even dollar amount and may range from one dollar to twenty-five dollars. The organization may establish a minimum wager at not more than three dollars on one active table. If there is more than one active table at a site, the organization may set a…

1. Only one of three dealing methods may be used at a site: a. Hole-card-no-peek method. A dealer may not look at the face of a hole card until after all cards requested by players are dealt. The cards must be dealt in this order: (1) One card face upwards to each betting space w…

1. A dealer shall announce the dealer's faceup card one time to all the players at a table. As a prompt for optional wagers (splitting pairs or doubling-down), a dealer may announce the point total of each player's hand. 2. A dealer may not allow a player to touch any cards and m…

These procedures must be applied for dealing mistakes, unless an organization has an alternative written policy: 1. A card found turned face upwards in a dealing shoe must be burned. 2. If no cards are dealt to a player's betting space containing a wager, the betting space is ina…

The following rules and notice must be posted or made available to players in the area where twenty-one activity is conducted. If made available to players, the rules and notice must be in the form of a handout that is easily visible to the players and may not be a copy of the ga…

1. A drop box that has been used must be removed from a table by the end of the day's activity. If a drop box is removed from a table and the cash is not counted immediately, the drop box must be transported by the shift manager and, if there is more than one employee on duty, es…

Except as provided by this section, an organization shall conduct a twenty-one tournament according to this chapter. These rules must be disclosed to players: 1. An organization shall charge a player an entry fee and provide the player a fixed number of no-value chips. The cumula…

Records must include and be retained for three years from the end of the quarter in which the activity was reported, unless otherwise provided by rule: 1. For each day's activity: a. The starting and ending cash and chip banks and IOU records according to section 99-01.3-03-06; b…

An organization with a restricted event permit may conduct poker during one event per year. Poker may only be conducted by a licensed organization on two occasions per fiscal year, July first through June thirtieth. Each of the two poker occasions are limited to a seventy-two-hou…

1. "Action" is a binding verbal statement or physical gesture of intention. 2. "Add-on" is the last opportunity a player has to buy additional chips in an attempt to better the player's chances to win in a tournament that allows the additional purchase of chips. The amount and ti…

1. An organization may only conduct poker on two occasions per fiscal year. An occasion may include more than one authorized site. A nontournament occasion and a side game are restricted to a twenty-four-hour period of play. Tournament activity, including any satellite activity, …

1. The cards are ranked ace, king, queen, jack, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, and two. A poker hand in a showdown consists of five cards, usually the best five selected from a greater number, ranked according to the following from highest to lowest: a. Royal fl…

Except as provided by this section, an organization shall conduct a poker tournament according to this chapter. 1. An organization shall post tournament rules and a written schedule for each tournament and satellite tournament. A schedule must contain: a. Name of the site and org…

The following rules must be posted or made available to players in the area where poker activity is conducted. If made available to players, the rules must be in the form of a handout that is easily visible to the players and may not be a copy of the gaming law and rules: 1. Hous…

Records must include and be retained for three years from the end of the quarter in which the activity was reported: 1. For each poker occasion: a. The starting and ending cash on hand and chips according to section 99-01.3-03-06; b. For nontournament play and a side game, the fe…

A "calcutta" is a sporting event in which players wager at an auction on the competitors. A sporting event is a competitive sport involving physical skill or endurance and scores a person's physical ability. The conduct of a calcutta is the auction process. An auction pool is com…

Records must include and be retained for three years from the end of the quarter in which the activity was reported: 1. For each calcutta: a. A calcutta board with the state gaming stamp affixed indicating the winning competitor and player; b. The starting and ending cash on hand…

Paddlewheels must be conducted and played according to these two methods: 1. Paddlewheels may be a game in which a prize cannot be a variable multiple of the amount bet. The ticket must contain one or more numbers or symbols corresponding to a paddlewheel. The number or symbol on…

This section applies to the method of paddlewheels described by subsection 1 of section 99-01.3-11-01. 1. All paddlewheel tickets of a card must be preprinted and contain one or more numbers or symbols corresponding to a paddlewheel. A number or symbol cannot be repeated on any o…

1. A paddlewheel is a round mechanical vertical wheel, at least thirty inches in diameter, and may be divided into a maximum of five concentric circles. The outer circle must contain at least forty numbers or symbols. A paddlewheel may have house numbers or symbols for an optiona…

procedure for accepting currency and chips, and drop box. 1. To open a paddlewheel table, an employee shall inspect each peg and the pointer of a paddlewheel for uneven wear, immediately replace any worn peg or pointer, and evaluate the balance of a paddlewheel. 2. An organizatio…

1. An organization may limit the number of players and may require a minimum number of players to open a table. 2. A player shall buy a betting chip with currency or may exchange a casino chip for a betting chip. Only a betting chip can be used to place a bet. 3. The maximum bett…

1. The following rules and notice must be posted or made available to players in the area where paddlewheel activity is conducted. If made available to players, the rules and notice must be in the form of a handout that is easily visible to the players and may not be a copy of th…

Records must include and be retained for three years from the end of the quarter in which the activity was reported, unless otherwise provided by rule: 1. For paddlewheel activity described by subsection 1 of section 99-01.3-11-01: a. For each day's activity, the starting and end…

Repealed effective July 1, 2000.

1. A licensed organization may operate a pull-tab dispensing device when the organization's employee is on duty and may have a bar employee redeem a winning pull tab when the organization's employee is or is not on duty. 2. If a distributor's or manufacturer's security seal is br…

1. A bar shall: 3 a. Place a device in a location where alcoholic beverages are dispensed and consumed and where a bar employee will regularly observe the device; b. Prohibit a person from tampering or interfering with the operation or play of a device; c. Have the electrical cur…

1. A bar employee or an employee shall deface a winning number or symbol of a pull tab when it is redeemed. Tickets redeemed for credit through a dispensing device must be defaced by an employee of the organization at the time of the interim period site visit. All winning pull ta…

Records must include and be retained for three years from the end of the quarter in which the activity was reported, unless otherwise provided by rule: 1. All redeemed and unsold pull tabs for a game and be retained as documentation for gross proceeds and prizes for one year from…

This chapter applies to a licensed organization that conducts prize boards involving a dispensing device. The maximum price per chance is two dollars. The value of a seal prize or a column sold out indicator may exceed the value of the top tier prize. For purposes of this chapter…