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Games of Chance > Distributors
Short Summary
The first document outlines the restrictions and requirements for distributors in the gaming industry in North Dakota. It prohibits licensed organizations, organizations with permits, and licensed manufacturers from acting as distributors. Distributors are required to have an office in North Dakota and are prohibited from offering incentives or inducements to licensed organizations or gaming locations. They are also prohibited from including discounts or incentives for non-gaming items or interfering with lessors’ relationships with organizations. Distributors are further restricted from playing or conducting certain games, providing bookkeeping services, and entering into agreements to restrict sales to specific areas or organizations. Additional requirements include the use of specific drop boxes, limitations on playing surfaces for twenty-one tables, restrictions on the sale of identical gaming chips, limitations on gifts or gratuities, and employee training and acknowledgment of gaming laws. Distributors are also required to report changes in ownership, maintain records, and comply with various regulations related to the sale, installation, and maintenance of gaming equipment. The document also specifies requirements for electronic pull-tab devices and related equipment. The second document governs the inventory records and reconciliation requirements for distributors of pull tabs, club specials, tip boards, prize boards, punchboards, and paper bingo cards. Distributors are required to maintain a quantity-based perpetual inventory system and reconcile their inventory semiannually. The document specifies the details that must be included in the inventory records and the documentation requirements for the reconciliation process. The third document governs the distribution of gaming equipment in North Dakota. It provides guidelines and requirements for various aspects of the distribution process, including the presence of manufacturer’s game serial numbers on certain types of gaming equipment, affixing state gaming stamps, resealing containers, assigning electronic gaming stamp numbers, providing flares, and printing required information on different types of gaming equipment. The document also mentions the need for compliance with procedures prescribed by the attorney general in case of discrepancies in game serial numbers or bans/recalls of defective gaming equipment. Exemptions to these rules include gaming equipment provided directly to Indian tribes, the United States military, out-of-state purchasers, or other licensed distributors. The fourth document, found in the North Dakota Administrative Code under the State Gaming Commission’s regulations for Games of Chance, pertains to distributors. It states that a distributor is prohibited from selling gaming equipment to individuals, with exceptions for specific entities such as Indian tribes, the United States military, out-of-state purchasers, and organizations that conduct games on tribal land. The document aims to regulate the sale of gaming equipment to ensure compliance with licensing requirements and appropriate distribution channels. The fifth document governs the sale or provision of promotional paper bingo cards, jar tickets, or pull tabs. It specifies that distributors may only sell or provide these items to organizations or individuals if they contain specific phrases or words indicating their promotional use or void status. Distributors are also allowed to sell other nongaming promotional items to any person. The sixth document outlines the recordkeeping requirements for distributors of gaming equipment and supplies in North Dakota. Distributors are required to maintain complete and accurate accounting records for a period of three years. The records must include purchase invoices, sales invoices, and various other details related to the items sold. The document also specifies the requirements for prenumbered consecutively issued sales invoices, credit memos, sales and cash receipts journals, inventory records, repair reports, and documentation of training sessions. Additionally, it mandates the maintenance of perpetual inventory records for certain devices and systems used in gaming operations. No specific penalties for non-compliance or violations are mentioned in this document.
Whom does it apply to?
Licensed organizations, organizations with permits, licensed manufacturers, distributors of pull tabs, club specials, tip boards, prize boards, punchboards, paper bingo cards, distributors of gaming equipment and supplies
What does it govern?
Restrictions and requirements for distributors in the gaming industry in North Dakota, inventory records and reconciliation requirements for distributors of pull tabs, club specials, tip boards, prize boards, punchboards, and paper bingo cards, distribution of gaming equipment in North Dakota, sale or provision of promotional paper bingo cards, jar tickets, or pull tabs to organizations or individuals
What are exemptions?
Gaming equipment provided directly to Indian tribes, the United States military, out-of-state purchasers, or other licensed distributors
What are the Penalties?
No specific penalties are mentioned in these documents.
Jurisdiction
North Dakota