North Dakota Administrative Code

An organization or a closely related organization may be ineligible for a license or permit if either organization has failed to resolve an imbalance involving its gaming or trust account according to section 99-01.3-03-05, has deals or games with state gaming stamps that are not…

1. An eligible organization shall obtain an approved site authorization for a site within a city or county from the governing body of the appropriate jurisdiction. The attorney general shall have final approval of a site authorization. A separate site authorization is required fo…

1. An organization may not conduct games at a site unless the attorney general first approves a site authorization and license for that city or county. A separate license is required for each city or county. For the initial and renewal applications for a license for an organizati…

If the following information on a site authorization or license application changes, the organization shall provide the attorney general, in writing through the gaming licensing system, updated information within fourteen days following the change: 1. An organization's primary pu…

1. A permit is issued by a city or county governing body and may be for a site located on public or private property. It may be restricted, including types of games, days of the week, and designation of an area at a site where games may be conducted. A governing body may revoke o…

As used in this article: 1. "Alcoholic beverage establishment" means an establishment licensed under North Dakota Century Code section 5-01-21 or chapter 5-02 where alcoholic beverages are sold, dispensed, and consumed by guests on the premises. The term does not include a liquor…

1. An organization or distributor may not employ a person as a temporary or permanent employee until the organization or distributor has initiated a record check on the person, the person has independently requested a record check from the bureau of criminal investigation within …

1. An employee shall wear an identification tag while working in the gaming area of a site. The tag must display a person's name, which may be the employee's middle name or a shortened form of a proper name, and first initial of the last name or the person's identification number…

1. An organization shall procure gaming equipment only from a licensed distributor. However, an organization may: a. Buy raffle tickets with a detachable stub from a printer, buy double roll tickets from any vendor, or construct a raffle board; b. Buy, lease, or sell a used pull-…

1. A lessor's employee who is not the lessor's spouse, lessor's common household member, management, management's spouse, or lessor's employee or agent who approved the lease, may conduct games at a site, including accessing a pull-tab dispensing device or electronic pull-tab dev…

1. A rental agreement must be signed and dated by a lessor and organization. 2. An agreement must contain: a. Term of the agreement which must be on a fiscal year basis from July first to June thirtieth or, if a site authorization is for a shorter period, the term is for the shor…

1. An organization shall designate one person as the gaming manager. A gaming manager may not be an employee of a temporary employment agency. A gaming manager is the person who is responsible and held accountable for managing and controlling the overall gaming operation. A perso…

1. Play of a game must be in United States currency. Play of a game must be on a cash basis. An organization may, by policy, accept checks and allow the use of debit cards. No credit may be extended to a player. Payment by credit card may be accepted only for online raffle ticket…

1. An employee who is a shift or gaming manager may not play any game at any of the organization's sites. An employee who services a pull tab or prize board dispensing device or electronic pull-tab device may not play the device at that site. 11 2. An employee may not play any ga…

1. An employee shall read and acknowledge in writing, within sixty days of employment and the effective date of new gaming laws or rules, the person has read and understands the provisions that relate to the person's job duties. The organization shall designate the provisions to …

Only an organization member, employee, including an employee of a temporary employment agency, or member of an auxiliary to an organization may manage, control, conduct games, or have sole direct access to gaming assets. An organization may have an outside service provider, inclu…

Repealed effective July 1, 2000.

1. The attorney general may deny, suspend, or revoke a license or a permit of an organization, distributor, or manufacturer: a. When the applicant or licensed organization, distributor, or manufacturer through its employees, officers, board of directors, or outside service provid…

1. An organization shall retain purchase invoices, receipts, accounting and bank records, including receipts documenting eligible uses and solicitations for net proceeds, for three years from the end of the quarter in which the activity was reported on a tax return, unless otherw…

1. An organization shall maintain all gaming accounts at financial institutions located in North Dakota. These accounts must be used for depositing gaming funds and transferring net proceeds to a trust account, except as provided by subsection 3. All gaming prizes paid for by che…

1. An organization shall maintain all trust accounts at financial institutions located in North Dakota. If an organization only conducts a calcutta, raffle, sports pool, paddlewheel described by subsection 1 of section 99-01.3-11-01, or poker or a combination of these games, or i…

1. An organization is allowed an expense limit according to subsection 2 of North Dakota Century Code section 53-06.1-11. The allowable expense amount may be used for any purpose that does not violate the gaming law or rules. 2. An organization may not base an employee's compensa…

If an organization's gaming account check register balance is less than its net proceeds carryover balance or its trust account check register balance is less than its trust account carryover balance, or both, as reported on the tax return for the quarter ended December thirty-fi…

1. Gross proceeds for a game must be separately maintained while the game is conducted. An organization shall use a separate cash bank for each game. However, for electronic pull-tab device activity, the organization shall use one cash bank for all electronic pull-tab games condu…

1. An employee shall prepare a record of win if a player wins a last sale prize, a seal prize, a cash prize greater than five hundred dollars, a merchandise prize that has a retail price exceeding five hundred dollars, or a donated merchandise prize with a fair market value excee…

chips and reconciliation. 1. An organization shall maintain master and site inventory records of all deals and games that have a state gaming stamp affixed to their flares. The master records must include the sales invoice number, date received, name of game, dates of issuance to…

Repealed effective July 1, 2000.

1. An organization that has an active license shall file a tax return each quarter. Closely connected organizations shall file a consolidated tax return. A tax return and payment of tax for a quarter must be postmarked or hand-delivered by the last day of the month following the …

"Bingo" is when a player buys a card or uses a bingo card marking device and marks squares, or a radio frequency signal or Wi-Fi transmission marks squares on a marking device, as a caller announces a letter and number or only a number for speedball bingo. Speedball bingo is a ga…

An organization shall use this equipment: 1. A device from which balls are withdrawn or a certified and approved random number generator. If a random number generator is not used, a set of either seventy-five or ninety balls bearing the letters and numbers corresponding to the bi…

1. The following rules, information, and policies must be posted or made available to players in the area where bingo activity is conducted. If made available to players, the rules, information, and policies must be in the form of a handout that is easily visible to the players a…

This receipting method may be used to record gross proceeds of packages, hard cards, and paper cards, excluding floorworker sales, by issuing consecutively numbered receipts. 1. A receipt must contain: a. Name of a site and organization; b. Date of the session; c. Receipt number;…

The ticket receipting method may be used to record gross proceeds of packages, hard cards, and paper cards, including floorworker sales, by issuing consecutively numbered tickets. These rules apply: 1. All tickets must have a preprinted consecutive number and must be issued conse…

The paper card count receipting method may be used to record gross proceeds of paper bingo cards, including floorworker sales. The daily records must include the total number of cards, collated sets, or packages taken from inventory and returned to inventory. A count of the cards…

The paper card tracking number receipting method may be used to record gross proceeds of paper bingo cards, including floorworker sales if the series of paper bingo cards used includes consecutive card tracking numbers and are used and sold in consecutive order. The daily records…

begun; 7 d. If a player bingos before the next continuous number is called, the player wins. Otherwise, an additional bingo ball is drawn until a player bingos. This rule does not apply to a game that has all of its numbers predrawn; e. A game may not extend beyond a session; f. …

Records must be retained for three years from the end of the quarter in which the activity was reported, unless otherwise provided by rule, and include: 1. For each session: a. The gross proceeds for each type of sale or game. If a site system involving bingo card marking devices…

"Electronic quick shot bingo" means a bingo game played on portable hand-held bingo devices utilizing electronic bingo card images. The bingo game is played using twenty-four predrawn letters and numbers and may use up to six bonus numbers to achieve predetermined patterns. If a …

An organization shall use this equipment: 1. A device from which bingo balls are drawn or a random number generator. The device or random number generator must draw from a set of seventy-five balls or numbers used to determine the original twenty-four balls or numbers for play of…

1. Only one set of numbers may be drawn for a business day. The predrawn numbers for the current session must be posted at the site. The use of a flashboard is optional. Unless there is only one employee on duty, two persons shall verify and attest to the numbers drawn or selecte…

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 session: a. The electronic quick shot bingo site operating system involving a bingo card-marking device must include…

1. A raffle is a game in which a prize is won by a player who bought a raffle ticket or square on a raffle board. A winning player is determined by drawing a ticket stub or number of a square on a raffle board from a receptacle or by an alternate fair method approved by the attor…

1. A licensed organization may sell raffle tickets online over the internet and may accept an electronic payment, including payment by a debit or credit card, for the purchase of a raffle ticket. Any fees related to the use of an electronic payment is a gaming expense to the orga…

1. Each raffle ticket is a separate and equal chance to win with all other tickets sold. A person may not be required to buy more than one ticket, or to pay for anything other than the ticket, to enter a raffle. An organization may sell several tickets or sell tickets in advance …

1. No prize may be real estate, ticket for entry into another raffle, or live animal except for beef or dairy cattle, horse, bison, sheep, or pig. A prize must be an item that may be legally owned and possessed and has a value or a right to a free service. A winning player may no…

Each raffle ticket must contain this preprinted information, except for double roll tickets: 1. Name of organization; 2. Ticket number; 3. Price of the ticket, including any discounted price; 4. Prize, description of an optional prize selectable by a winning player, or option to …

An organization may use double roll tickets provided: 1. Two single tickets must be printed side by side on a roll with a consecutive number. Both tickets must have the same number; 2. A list of the prizes must be disclosed or made available to players or the prize must be presen…