North Dakota Administrative Code

1. An organization may operate a prize board dispensing device when the organization's employee is on duty and may have an authorized bar employee redeem a winning pull tab and pay a cash or merchandise prize when the organization's employee is or is not on duty. 2. If a distribu…

1. A bar shall: 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 curre…

1. A bar or organization employee may pay a winning player a cash or merchandise prize won on a prize board. 2. A bar employee or an employee shall deface a winning number or symbol of a pull tab when it is redeemed. 3. A bar or organization employee shall display the prize board…

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, including column sold out indicators, must be retained as documentation for gro…

1. An organization may not accept, and a recipient or potential recipient of net proceeds may not give or offer to give, a payment, gift, service, loan, personal or real property, or other thing of material value, for disbursing or receiving net proceeds. However, a recipient or …

1. A use of net proceeds for erecting, acquiring, improving, maintaining, or repairing real or personal qualifying property owned by an organization is an eligible use provided the organization agrees that, upon abandoning the exclusive use of the property for an eligible use, it…

A person may not sell, lease, solicit business, or provide gaming equipment to a licensed organization, distributor, or organization that has a permit without a license, except as provided by subsection 1 of section 99-01.3-02-04. A license is not transferable. The annual licensi…

1. A licensed organization, organization that has a permit, or licensed manufacturer may not be a distributor. A person who is an officer, manager, gaming manager, or member of a governing board of a licensed organization or organization that has a permit may not be an officer, d…

1. A distributor shall maintain a quantity-based perpetual inventory system for deals of pull tabs, club specials, tip boards, prize boards, and punchboards that are bought or received from any source. A system must account for the sale or disposition of each item. The system mus…

Repealed effective July 1, 2000. 6

Repealed effective July 1, 2000.

1. A manufacturer's game serial number must be on a paddlewheel ticket described by subsection 1 of section 99-01.3-11-01, all pull tabs, including pull tabs used with prize boards, club specials, and tip boards and punches in a punchboard. No game serial number may be special or…

organization that conducts games on tribal land. A distributor may not sell gaming equipment to any individual. Gaming equipment sold or provided to an Indian tribe, United States military, out-of-state purchaser, organization that is not licensed that conducts games on tribal la…

A distributor may not sell or provide promotional paper bingo cards, jar tickets, or pull tabs to an organization or any person unless the face of each paper bingo card, the outside of a jar ticket, or the game information side of each pull tab or bingo card contains the phrase "…

1. A distributor shall maintain gaming stamps at its North Dakota office. A distributor may not provide a stamp to another distributor. If a distributor voids or does not use a stamp, it shall return the stamp to, or for electronic gaming stamps, notify the attorney general. Ther…

A distributor shall maintain complete, accurate, and legible accounting records in North Dakota. The records must be retained for three years and include, by month: 1. Purchase invoices for gaming equipment. 2. Sales of gaming and nongaming equipment, supplies, and services sold …

1. A manufacturer of deals of pull tabs, electronic deals of pull tabs, paper bingo cards, site systems with bingo card-marking devices, electronic quick shot bingo site operating systems with card-marking devices, pull tab dispensing devices, fifty-fifty raffle systems, electron…

1. The attorney general may conduct a background investigation of a manufacturer and request information on each partner of a partnership, and each stockholder owning ten percent or more of the outstanding voting common stock of a corporation, including the corporation's parent o…

1. A manufacturer that sells, or provides, paper bingo cards to a distributor shall print its name or distinctive logo and the assigned serial number and series number (card number) on each card. A manufacturer shall have available for sale or provide to a distributor a master ch…

A manufacturer shall manufacture paper pull tabs according to these standards: 1. Construction. a. A deal must be designed, constructed, glued, and assembled to prevent the determination of a winning pull tab or numbers or symbols without first removing the tabs or other covering…

A manufacturer of punchboards shall print a game serial number on all punches and manufacture, assemble, and package a punchboard so that winning punches, or approximate location of winning punches, cannot be determined in advance of punching the punchboard, including any pattern…

Repealed effective July 1, 2010.

1. If the attorney general determines that deals of pull tabs, electronic pull tabs, or punchboards for sale in North Dakota do not meet the quality standards, the attorney general may order all defective deals and all similarly constructed or printed deals in North Dakota to be …

A pull tab dispensing device must meet these specifications: 1. If a device is designed to accommodate two or more different games of pull tabs, each compartment must independently meet the specifications of this section; 6 2. Electrical and mechanical components and design princ…

A currency validator must: 1. Validate only United States currency up to values of one hundred dollars; 2. Have an antipullback mechanism and other anticheat devices that prevent cheating of the bill acceptor by mechanical means; 9 3. Reject invalid and all known manipulations of…

devices. A site system with bingo card marking devices which display a facsimile of a bingo card and allows a player to electronically mark the card in the conduct of bingo according to chapter 99-01.3-04, must meet these specifications: 1. A site system is computer hardware and …

A bar code credit device must: 1. Limit redemption of winning pull tabs for credit to only pull tabs that have a prize value equal to or less than ten dollars; 2. Reject a winning pull tab that is not coded with the same game serial number or other protective code related to the …

A card shuffling device must: 1. Provide a completely random shuffle of the cards; and 2. Have been tested by an independent testing laboratory indicating that a prototype was tested with satisfactory random shuffling results. History: Effective October 1, 2006. General Authority…

systems with card-marking devices. An electronic quick shot bingo site operating system with card-marking devices and related equipment used in the conduct of electronic quick shot bingo according to chapter 99-01.3-04.1 must meet these specifications: 1. The card-marking device …

An electronic raffle system and related equipment used in the conduct of raffles according to chapter 99-01.3-05.1 for electronic fifty-fifty raffles and chapter 99-01.3-05-01.1 for online raffle ticket sales, must meet the specifications of the most current version of gaming lab…

system. An electronic pull-tab device is part of an electronic pull-tab device operating system approved by the attorney general. An electronic pull-tab device operating system must be dedicated primarily to electronic accounting, reporting, and the presentation, randomization, a…

1. A manufacturer of a pull tab dispensing device, fifty-fifty raffle system, site system with bingo card-marking devices, electronic quick shot bingo site operating system with card-marking devices, or electronic pull tab device with operating system, and related equipment shall…

1. A manufacturer may not sell or provide to or accept from a distributor deals of pull tabs, paper bingo cards, fifty-fifty raffle system, site system with bingo card-marking devices, electronic quick shot bingo site operating system with card-marking devices and related equipme…

1. History and function. The state seed arbitration board was established by the legislative assembly in 1989 as a state seed mediation board. It was reestablished as a state seed arbitration board by the legislative assembly in 1991. Its function is to arbitrate disputes among s…

Repealed effective April 1, 2002.

The terms used throughout this chapter have the same meaning as in North Dakota Century Code chapter 4.1-53, except: 1. "Board" means the state seed arbitration board established under North Dakota Century Code section 4.1-54. 2. "Dispute involving a seed transaction" means an in…

1. In the event of a dispute involving a seed transaction, a seed labeler, seed dealer, or seed customer may petition for seed arbitration by filing a written complaint with the agriculture commissioner. The complaint must be filed at the address listed in section 100-01-01-01. T…

The complaint shall be legibly typed or printed and, if available to the complainant, must contain the following information or attachments: 1. Any factual information relevant to the dispute such as purchase dates, planting dates, field location, seeding rates, mechanical planti…

Within twenty days after receiving a copy of the complaint, each party to which the complaint is directed may file with the commissioner an answer to the complaint and serve a copy of the answer on the complainant. History: Effective April 1, 2002. General Authority: NDCC 4.1-54-…

Upon receipt of the complaint and filing fee and after the time allowed for the filing and service of an answer, the commissioner shall submit a dispute involving a seed transaction to the chair of the board along with all documents received from the parties. The chair shall conv…

The board shall issue a final report to the disputing parties within thirty days after the final hearing, unless otherwise determined by the board. The final report shall contain a nonbinding recommendation for the resolution of the dispute. History: Effective April 1, 2002. Gene…

The North Dakota rules of evidence and North Dakota rules of civil procedure do not apply in seed arbitration hearings. The board shall mail to all parties to the dispute, at least thirty days before the hearing on the complaint, a copy of the arbitration hearing format and guide…

The board may, at its discretion, call any witnesses. When so called, any fees, if charged, must be shared equally among the parties to the dispute. Each party is responsible for all costs associated with presenting its case. If the cost of arbitration to the board exceeds the in…

1. History and functions. The 1991 legislative assembly passed real estate appraiser legislation codified as North Dakota Century Code chapter 43-23.3. This legislation requires the governor to appoint a board identified as the North Dakota real estate appraiser qualifications an…

Any person who wishes to file an application to take the examination to qualify as a licensed or certified appraiser may contact the board office. History: Effective October 1, 1992; amended effective January 1, 2008; July 1, 2019. General Authority: NDCC 43-23.3-03 Law Implement…

A person who wishes to file an application for a permit to be an apprentice appraiser, a licensed appraiser, or a certified appraiser may contact the board office. History: Effective October 1, 1992; amended effective October 1, 1998; January 1, 2008; July 1, 2019. General Author…

If an application is denied, the board will notify the applicant of the denial and specify the basis for the denial. History: Effective July 1, 2012. General Authority: NDCC 43-23.3-03 Law Implemented: NDCC 43-23.3-03

Fees will not be prorated. 1. The following application fees will be charged: a. Apprentice appraiser permit $300 b. Licensed appraiser permit $400 1 c. Certified residential appraiser permit $400 d. Certified general appraiser permit $400 2. The following annual renewal fees wil…

Unpaid fees may be considered cause for denial, suspension, or revocation. History: Effective October 1, 1992; amended effective January 1, 2008; July 1, 2019. General Authority: NDCC 43-23.3-03 Law Implemented: NDCC 43-23.3-03, 43-23.3-20

Repealed effective February 1, 2003. 2