99-01.3-06.1-04. Requirements of an alcoholic beverage establishment and an organization.

1. An alcoholic beverage establishment 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 ticket voucher must be paid with cash and must have the date and initials of the person who redeemed the credit ticket voucher printed on it. A credit ticket voucher redeemed for credit through an electronic pull-tab device or credit ticket voucher redemption kiosk must have the bar code defaced by an employee of the organization at the time of the interim period site visit.

2. An alcoholic beverage establishment employee or an organization employee may not:

a. Knowingly redeem a credit ticket voucher that has been defaced, tampered with, or counterfeited. If a player attempts to redeem a voucher that has been defaced, tampered with, or counterfeited, an alcoholic beverage establishment employee or an organization employee, if possible, shall retain and void the credit ticket voucher;

b. Knowingly redeem a credit ticket voucher that was issued at another site or a voucher that was issued prior to the business day presented for redemption. If a player attempts to redeem a voucher that was issued prior to the business day presented for redemption, an alcoholic beverage establishment employee or an organization employee, if possible, shall retain and void the credit ticket voucher; and

c. Pay, from gaming funds or any other source, moneys to a player unless the player redeems an actual valid credit ticket voucher issued by an electronic pull-tab device at the site and on the business day it is presented for redemption.

3. If an electronic pull-tab device malfunctions, is inoperable, and a player has credit on the device, an alcoholic beverage establishment employee or an organization employee shall pay the player for the player's unplayed credits and record the refund on a credit redemption register. If a player has valid credits and does not receive a printed credit ticket voucher from a device, and a duplicate voucher is not able to be printed, the reimbursement must be recorded on a credit redemption register. An alcoholic beverage establishment shall provide this form to an organization to claim a reimbursement. If a player's currency jams in a currency validator and a device does not show a credit, an alcoholic beverage establishment employee may not reimburse a player, and shall record the jam on a credit redemption register and notify an organization. If an organization determines that a device is cash long, the organization shall reimburse a player by cash or check.

4. An alcoholic beverage establishment employee and an organization employee shall document and attest to the number of and total dollar value of redeemed credit ticket vouchers that are exchanged for cash or check. These credit ticket vouchers must be grouped, banded, dated, and retained separate from other credit ticket vouchers redeemed for credit through an electronic pull-tab device, redeemed through a credit ticket voucher redemption kiosk, and that an organization employee redeemed, by interim period and by the manufacturer.

5. An organization shall provide an alcoholic beverage establishment employee, and an alcoholic beverage establishment shall maintain, a current copy of subsection 8 of section 99-01.3-02-03 and sections 99-01.3-02-05, 99-01.3-02-09, 99-01.3-06.1-03, and 99-01.3-06.1-04 regarding the alcoholic beverage establishment employee's and alcoholic beverage establishment's duties and restrictions.

History: Effective July 1, 2018; amended effective January 1, 2023; July 1, 2026.

General Authority: NDCC 53-06.1-01.1

Law Implemented: NDCC 53-06.1-01.1