As used in this article:

1. 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 store, gas station, grocery store, or convenience store.

2. 2. 'Alcoholic beverage establishment employee' is a person, employed by an alcoholic beverage establishment that is not operated by an organization, who redeems winning pull tabs or prize boards or both involving a dispensing device, redeems credit ticket vouchers involving an electronic pull-tab device, or sells raffle tickets or sports pool chances on a board for an organization.

3. 3. 'Application software' means those computer programs that direct an electronic game system to perform those specific information-processing activities that permit the operation of the electronic game, permit the collection and recording of game information, and permit the reporting of that information to the attorney general. The application software overlays the operating system software and is unable to function without the operating system software.

4. 4. 'Attorney general' includes an agent of the attorney general.

5. 5. 'Bingo session' means a program of predetermined number of bingo games that are successively played. Intermissions may be included in the program. A session may not extend beyond a business day. However, any session in progress which continues past midnight must be considered played on the day the session began.

6. 6. 'Business day' relates to the typical hours in a day when normal business operations take place. For games of chance, this includes a site's start of business until the close of business for a day, which may continue past midnight.

7. 7. 'Cash on hand' means coin, currency, and checks, plus an IOU due from another source of cash or nongaming funds, less an IOU owed to another source of cash or nongaming funds.

8. 8. 'Cash prize' means coin, currency, marketable security, and a similar item that can be readily redeemed or converted into legal tender. Cash prize does not include precious metal bullion, a

coin of precious metal or antique coin that has a market value greater than its face value, or a merchandise gift certificate. The value of a marketable security is its cost.

9. 'Cash profit' means:

1. a. For bingo and electronic quick shot bingo, total ending cash on hand, less starting cash on hand and prizes paid by check, for a bingo session.
2. b. For a raffle, total receipts less prizes paid by cash and check.
3. c. For a commingled game of pull tabs, total ending cash on hand, less starting cash on hand and cash prizes paid by check, for a day's activity.
4. d. For a commingled game of pull tabs involving a dispensing device, total currency withdrawn from a dispensing device, less credit paid on a credit redemption register, cash long or short from an employee bank, and prizes paid, for an interim period.
5. e. For each manufacturer's system of commingled electronic pull-tab games at a site, total currency and total dollar value of credit ticket vouchers in the devices, less total dollar value of credit ticket vouchers in devices and paid by an alcoholic beverage establishment or organization employee, actual credit ticket vouchers redeemed by a kiosk less reissued credit ticket vouchers, credits paid on a credit redemption register, and cash long or short from an employee bank or kiosk, for an interim period.
6. f. For a club special, tip board, seal board, and punchboard, the total daily difference between ending cash on hand and starting cash on hand and less prizes paid by check, for the game.
7. g. For a prize board, the total daily difference between ending cash on hand and starting cash on hand, less prizes paid by check and cost of coins, for the game.
8. h. For a prize board involving a dispensing device, total currency withdrawn from a dispensing device, less total cash prizes paid, prizes paid by check, cost of coins, credit paid on a credit redemption register, and cash long or short from an employee bank, for the game.
9. i. For a sports pool, the total daily difference between ending cash on hand and starting cash on hand, less prizes paid by check.
10. j. For twenty-one, and paddlewheels described by subsection 2 of section 99-01.3-11-01, total ending cash on hand, plus drop box cash, less total starting cash on hand, for a day's activity.
11. k. For poker, total ending cash on hand, less starting cash on hand, less prizes paid by check, for a day's activity.
12. l. For calcuttas, total ending cash on hand, less starting cash on hand, prizes paid by check, and refunds to players, for the event.
13. m. For paddlewheels described by subsection 1 of section 99-01.3-11-01, total ending cash on hand, less starting cash on hand and prizes paid by check, for a paddlewheel ticket card.

10. 'Conduct of games' means the direct operation of a game on a site, including placing pull tabs in, withdrawing currency from, and buying back redeemed winning pull tabs dispensed from a dispensing device; and withdrawing currency from and buying back redeemed credit ticket vouchers dispensed from an electronic pull-tab device.

11. "Credit ticket voucher redemption kiosk" or "kiosk" means a device that only accepts a credit ticket voucher from a manufacturer's own electronic pull-tab device and only dispenses United States currency, coin, or a reissued credit ticket voucher for a credit balance remaining from a redeemed credit ticket voucher, and accepts a charity donation for any remaining balance not dispensed as currency, coin, or a reissued credit ticket voucher.

12. "Deal" in pull tabs, including electronic deals means each individual game or series of pull-tab packages which makes up a game with a specific form number and a unique serial number.

13. "Electronic pull-tab game" means a game family with a common game name, theme, symbols, and ticket count which allows for a variety of price per play denominations and prize payouts under different form numbers.

14. "Employee" includes a person employed by an organization, an employee of a temporary employment agency who provides gaming-related services to an organization, and a volunteer of an organization.

15. "Flare" refers to a flare or master flare as follows:

a. A flare is a display with the state gaming stamp affixed which describes a punchboard, sports-pool board, calcutta board, deal of pull tabs, club special, tip board, prize board, seal board, and raffle board. The flare for a punchboard is its face sheet. A flare for a sports-pool board, calcutta board, prize board, club special, tip board, seal board, and raffle board is the game board.

b. A master flare for a game of pull tabs is the same as a "flare" but it does not have a state gaming stamp affixed. A master flare for paddlewheels is described by subsection 1 of section 99-01.3-11-02.

16. "Gaming equipment" means a game piece or device specifically designed for use in conducting games, including integral components of a dispensing device such as a currency validator, processing board, EPROM microchip or other data storage device, attached bar code credit devices, and card shuffling devices. This includes all electronic pull-tab operating systems and devices, credit ticket voucher redemption kiosks, electronic quick shot bingo operating systems and devices, electronic fifty-fifty raffle systems and devices, and their related hardware and software. The term excludes fill and credit slips, promotional paper bingo cards, bingo daubers, video surveillance equipment, jar bars, jar containers, poker tables, raffle drums, double admission tickets, table covers, dealing shoes, discard holders, plungers, shoe and card covers, chip spacers, and weight scales.

17. "Inside information" is any information about the status of a game when that game is conducted that may give a person an advantage over another person who does not have that information, regardless if the person uses or does not use the information, when providing that information is prohibited by the gaming law or rules. It includes information provided through written, verbal, or nonverbal communications that implies or expresses the number of unsold chances; relationship of a game's cash on hand to its ideal adjusted gross proceeds; number of unredeemed top tier or minor winning game pieces that is not posted, value of a hole card in twenty-one, number under the tape of a sports-pool board, or number under a seal.

18. "License" or "gaming license" or "state gaming license" means an official authorization issued by the attorney general allowing an organization, distributor, or manufacturer to conduct activities specific to the license type.

19. "Organization" means a group that meets the requirements to hold a license to conduct charitable gaming or in reference to a local permit includes a "group of people" working together for a public-spirited cause.

20. "Player" is an individual who purchases a game piece or places a wager in a game of chance. An organization may not be a player in any games of chance the organization is conducting. A business that is not an organization with a gaming license or permit for the event, may purchase raffle tickets; however, an individual's name representing the business that bought the tickets must be recorded on the raffle ticket.

21. "Political party" means any association, committee, or organization which nominates a candidate for election to any office which may be filled by a vote of the electors of this state or any of its political subdivisions and whose name appears on the election ballot as the candidate of such association, committee, or organization.

22. "Primary game" is the principal game conducted on a site. Determining factors include frequency of conduct, square footage used, duration of time conducted, and volume of activity.

23. "Retail price" means the purchase price paid by an organization, excluding sales tax.

24. "Volunteer" means a person who conducts games for no compensation. A volunteer may receive a gift not exceeding a total retail price of thirty dollars for a consecutive twenty-four-hour period which may not be cash or convertible into cash; cash tips; and reimbursement for documented business expenses. See definition of employee.

History: Effective May 1, 1998; amended effective July 1, 2000; July 1, 2002; July 1, 2004; October 1, 2006; July 1, 2010; July 1, 2012; April 1, 2016; July 1, 2018; January 1, 2023; July 1, 2026.

General Authority: NDCC 53-06.1-01.1

Law Implemented: NDCC 53-06.1-01.1, 53-06.1-06