1. An alcoholic beverage establishment employee or an employee shall deface a winning number or symbol of a pull tab when it is redeemed. Tickets redeemed for credit through a dispensing device must be defaced by an employee of the organization at the time of the

interim period site visit. All winning pull tab tickets with a bar code also must have the bar code defaced. If a pull tab has two or more winning prize patterns, a winning number or symbol of at least one pattern must be defaced.

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

1. a. Assist a player in opening a pull tab except to assist a disabled player;

2. b. Knowingly pay a prize to a player who is redeeming a pull tab that has been defaced, tampered with, counterfeited, or has a game serial number different from the serial numbers of the deals in the game;

3. c. Knowingly pay a prize to a player who is redeeming a pull tab when the player with the pull tab has left the gaming area of a site;

4. d. Publicly display a redeemed pull tab;

5. e. Knowingly pay a prize for a pull tab after fifteen minutes has elapsed since it was bought. If a player attempts to redeem a pull tab after the allowed time limit, an alcoholic beverage establishment employee or an employee shall, if possible, retain and void the pull tab;

6. f. Pay, from gaming funds or any other source, a prize to a player unless the player redeems an actual winning pull tab that has a game serial number from a game conducted at the site; or

7. g. Reimburse, from any source of funds, an amount to a player for play of a game that has a manufacturing defect or has an incorrect posting of information described by subsection 7, unless the attorney general approves.

2. 3. A prize must be cash. There may be no last sale prize.

3. 4. If a device malfunctions, is inoperable, and a player has a credit, an alcoholic beverage establishment employee or an employee shall pay the player for the player's unplayed credits and record the refund 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. 5. An alcoholic beverage establishment employee and an employee shall document and attest to the number and value of redeemed winning pull tabs, by value and in total, that are exchanged for cash or check. These pull tabs must be grouped, banded, dated, and retained separate from other pull tabs that an organization employee may have redeemed, and separate from those redeemed through a credit redemption device, by interim period.

5. 6. 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, 99-01.3-12-03, and 99-01.3-12-04 regarding the alcoholic beverage establishment employee's and alcoholic beverage establishment's duties and restrictions.

6. 7. An alcoholic beverage establishment employee or an employee may post the information referenced by subdivision a or b, or both, provided that an organization does not have a partial deal that is to be added to a device. An organization shall post a statement that the information is correct to the best of the organization's knowledge and that the information is

not guaranteed to be accurate. If an organization does not have a policy on when to stop posting this information when a game is being closed, it shall stop posting the information when there are less than six winning pull tabs, through a level of prize value determined by the organization, that remain unredeemed. Posted information may be the information described in subdivision a or b, or both:

a. The minimum number of unredeemed winning pull tabs or a range of numbers of unredeemed winning pull tabs, through a level of prize value determined by an organization, that will always be in a game unless the game is being closed. This information may be for each prize value or the total of several prize values. The level of prize value must be posted. If a pull tab has two or more winning prize patterns, the information must be based on the value of each prize pattern.

b. The number or unredeemed winning pull tabs, through a level of prize value determined by an organization, that remain in a game. This information may be for each prize value or the total of several prize values. The level of prize value must be posted. If a pull tab has two or more winning prize patterns, the information must be based on the value of each prize pattern. The information must be continually updated.

History: Effective May 1, 1998; amended effective July 1, 2000; July 1, 2002; July 1, 2004; July 1, 2010; 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