23 CAR § 355-1358 – Ticketing requirements

(a) EGS containing ticket printers must be communicating to a ticket validation system, which records the ticket information.
(b) Validation approval or information shall come from the ticket validation system in order to validate tickets.
(c) Provisions must be made if communication is lost, and validation information cannot be sent to the ticket validation system, thereby requiring the EGS or the franchise holder’s operations to have an alternate method of payment.
(d) The ticket printer shall print on a ticket and must provide the ticket data to a ticket validation system that records the following information regarding each payout ticket printed:
1. (1) Value of credits in local monetary units in numerical form;
2. (2)
  1. (A) Time of day the ticket was printed in twenty-four-hour format showing hours and minutes.
  2. (B) Printing of this information is not required, provided that storage of this information is in the database;
3. (3) Date, in any recognized format, indicating the day, month, and year;
4. (4) EGS number or machine number; and
5. (5) Unique validation number or barcode.
6. (6) If communications between a gaming device or a gaming device interface component may continue to issue tickets/vouchers provide that, printed on the instrument, there is an authentication code derived by a hash, or other secure encryption method of at least one hundred twenty-eight (128) bits, that will:
  1. (A) Uniquely identify the wagering instrument;
  2. (B) Verify that the redeeming system was also the issuing system; and
  3. (C) Validate the amount of the voucher.
7. (7) For cases where a suitable authentication code is not printed on the voucher, the system must print at most one (1) wagering instrument after the gaming device interface component to system communications have been lost.