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Minnesota Charitable Gaming Laws
Minnesota Legal Gambling Guide
349.11. Purpose
The purpose of sections 349.11 to 349.22 is to regulate lawful gambling to insure integrity of operations, and to provide for the use of net profits only for lawful purposes.
349.12. Definitions
Subdivision 1. Scope. As used in sections 349.11 to 349.23 the terms in this section have the meanings given them.
Subd. 2. Active member.
“Active member” means a member who has paid all dues to the organization, who is 18 years of age or older, who has equal voting rights with all other members, who has equal opportunity to be an elected officer, who has equal right and responsibilities of attendance at the regularly scheduled meetings of the organization, whose name and membership origination date appear with the member’s knowledge and consent on a list of members of the organization, and who has been a member of the organization for at least six months.
“Affiliate” is any person or entity directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control or ownership with a licensee of the board or any officer or director of a licensee of the board.
“Allowable expense” means the percentage of the total cost incurred by the organization in the purchase of any good, service, or other item which corresponds to the proportion of the total actual use of the good, service, or other item that is directly related to conduct of lawful gambling.
“Bar operation” means a method of selling and redeeming gambling equipment within a leased premises which is licensed for the on-sale of alcoholic beverages where such sales and redemptions are made by an employee of the lessor from a common area where food and beverages are also sold.
“Bar bingo” is a bingo occasion conducted at a permitted premises in an area where intoxicating liquor or 3.2 percent malt beverages are sold and where the licensed organization conducts another form of lawful gambling.
“Bingo” means a game where each player has a bingo hard card, bingo paper sheet, or facsimile of a bingo paper sheet when used in conjunction with an electronic bingo device, for which a consideration has been paid, and played in accordance with this chapter and with rules of the board for the conduct of bingo. “Bingo” also includes a linked bingo game.
“Bingo occasion” means a single gathering or session at which a series of one or more successive bingo games is played. There is no limit on the number of games conducted during a bingo occasion but a bingo occasion must not last longer than eight consecutive hours.
“Board” is the Gambling Control Board.
“Booth operation” means a method of selling and redeeming gambling equipment by an employee of a licensed organization in a premises the organization leases or owns where such sales and redemptions are made within a separate enclosure that is distinct from areas where food and beverages are sold.
“Capital assets” means property, real or personal, except gambling equipment, with an expected useful life of at least two years and a minimum value of $2,000.
“Charitable contribution” means one or more of the lawful purposes expenditures under subdivision 25, paragraph (a), clauses (1) to (7), (10) to (15), and (19).
“Checker” means a person who records the number of bingo hard cards purchased and played during each game and records the prizes awarded to the recorded hard cards, but does not collect the payment for the hard cards.
“Deal” means each separate package, or series of packages, consisting of one game of pull-tabs or tipboards with the same serial number.
“Director” is the director of the Gambling Control Board.
“Distributor” is a person who sells gambling equipment for use within the state to licensed organizations, or to organizations conducting excluded or exempt activities under section 349.166.
“Distributor salesperson” means a person who in any manner receives orders for gambling equipment or who solicits a licensed, exempt, or excluded organization to purchase gambling equipment from a licensed distributor.
“Electronic bingo device” means an electronic device used by a bingo player to monitor bingo paper sheets or a facsimile of a bingo paper sheet when purchased at the time and place of an organization’s bingo occasion and which (1) provides a means for bingo players to activate numbers announced by a bingo caller; (2) compares the numbers entered by the player to the bingo faces previously stored in the memory of the device; and (3) identifies a winning bingo pattern.
“Face value” means the price per ticket printed on the ticket or the flare.
“501(c)(3) organization” is an organization exempt from the payment of federal income taxes under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
“Festival organization” is an organization conducting a community festival that is exempt from the payment of federal income taxes under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code.
“Flare” is the posted display, with registration stamp affixed or bar code imprinted or affixed, that sets forth the rules of a particular game of pull-tabs or tipboards and that is associated with a specific deal of pull-tabs or grouping of tipboards.
“Fraternal organization” means a nonprofit organization which is a branch, lodge, or chapter of a national or state organization registered by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)8 or a 501(c)10 nonprofit organization and exists for the common business, fraternal, or other interests of its members. The term does not include college and high school fraternities and sororities.
“Free play” means a winning ticket that is labeled as a free play or its equivalent.
“Gambling equipment” means: bingo hard cards or paper sheets, linked bingo paper sheets, devices for selecting bingo numbers, electronic bingo devices, pull-tabs, jar tickets, paddle wheels, paddle wheel tables, paddle tickets, paddle ticket cards, tipboards, tipboard tickets, promotional tickets that mimic a pull-tab or tipboard, pull-tab dispensing devices, and programmable electronic devices that have no effect on the outcome of a game and are used to provide a visual or auditory enhancement of a game.
“Gambling manager” means a person who has been designated by the organization to supervise the lawful gambling conducted by it, has been an active member of the organization for at least the most recent six months at the time of the application for a gambling manager license, and meets other qualifications as prescribed by the board by rule.
“Gross profit” means the gross receipts collected from lawful gambling, less reasonable sums necessarily and actually expended for prizes.
“Gross receipts” means all receipts derived from lawful gambling activity including, but not limited to, the following items:
(1) gross sales of bingo hard cards, paper sheets, facsimiles of bingo paper sheets when used in conjunction with an electronic bingo device, and rental of electronic bingo devices before reduction for prizes, expenses, shortages, free plays, or any other charges or offsets; (2) the ideal gross of pull-tab and tipboard deals or games less the value of unsold and defective tickets and before reduction for prizes, expenses, shortages, free plays, or any other charges or offsets; (3) gross sales of raffle tickets and paddle tickets before reduction for prizes, expenses, shortages, free plays, or any other charges or offsets; (4) admission, commission, cover, or other charges imposed on participants in lawful gambling activity as a condition for or cost of participation; and (5) interest, dividends, annuities, profit from transactions, or other income derived from the accumulation or use of gambling proceeds.
“Ideal gross” means the total amount of receipts that would be received if every individual ticket in the pull-tab or tipboard deal was sold at its face value. In the calculation of ideal gross and prizes, a free play ticket shall be valued at face value.
“Ideal net” means the pull-tab or tipboard deal’s ideal gross, as defined under subdivision 22, less the total predetermined prize amounts available to be paid out. When the prize is not entirely a monetary one, the ideal net is 50 percent of the ideal gross.
“Lawful gambling” is the operation, conduct or sale of bingo, raffles, paddle wheels, tipboards, and pull-tabs.
(i) members of a military marching or color guard unit for activities conducted within the state; (ii) members of an organization solely for services performed by the members at funeral services; (iii) members of military marching, color guard, or honor guard units may be reimbursed for participating in color guard, honor guard, or marching unit events within the state or states contiguous to Minnesota at a per participant rate of up to $35 per diem; or (iv) active military personnel and their immediate family members in need of support services;
(i) wildlife management projects that benefit the public at large; (ii) grant-in-aid trail maintenance and grooming established under sections 84.83 and 84.927, and other trails open to public use, including purchase or lease of equipment for this purpose; and (iii) supplies and materials for safety training and educational programs coordinated by the Department of Natural Resources, including the Enforcement Division;
16) an expenditure by a licensed fraternal organization or a licensed veterans organization for payment of water, fuel for heating, electricity, and sewer costs for a building wholly owned or wholly leased by and used as the primary headquarters of the licensed veterans organization or fraternal organization;
(i) The expenditure must be related to the portion of the real property or capital asset that must be made available for use free of any charge to other nonprofit organizations, community groups, or service groups, or is used for the organization’s primary mission or headquarters.
“Linked bingo game” means a bingo game played at two or more locations where licensed organizations are authorized to conduct bingo, where there is a common prize pool and a common selection of numbers or symbols conducted at one location, and where the results of the selection are transmitted to all participating locations by satellite, telephone, or other means by a linked bingo game provider.
“Linked bingo game provider” means any person who provides the means to link bingo prizes in a linked bingo game, who provides linked bingo paper sheets to the participating organizations, who provides linked bingo prize management, and who provides the linked bingo game system.
“Linked bingo game system” means the equipment used by the linked bingo provider to conduct, transmit, and track a linked bingo game. The system must be approved by the board before its use in this state and it must have dial-up or other capability to permit the board to monitor its operation remotely.
“Linked bingo prize pool” means the total of all prize money that each participating organization has contributed to a linked bingo game prize and includes any portion of the prize pool that is carried over from one occasion to another in a progressive linked bingo game.
“Manufacturer” means a person or entity who assembles from raw materials or subparts a completed piece of gambling equipment, and who sells or furnishes the equipment for resale or for use in the state. The term includes a person who converts, modifies, adds to, or removes parts or a portion from an item, device, or assembly to further its promotion, sale, or use as gambling equipment in this state. A person only adding or modifying promotional flares to advise the public of the prizes available, the rules of play, and the consideration required is not a manufacturer.
“Master flare” is the posted display, with registration stamp affixed or bar code imprinted or affixed, that is used in conjunction with sealed groupings of 100 or fewer sequentially numbered paddle ticket cards.
“Net profit” means gross profit less reasonable sums actually expended for allowable expenses.
“Organization” means any fraternal, religious, veterans, or other nonprofit organization.
“Paddle ticket” means a preprinted ticket that can be used to place wagers on the spin of a paddle wheel.
“Paddle ticket card” means a card to which detachable paddle tickets are attached.
“Paddle ticket card number” means the unique serial number preprinted by the manufacturer on the stub of a paddle ticket card and the paddle tickets attached to the card.
“Paddle wheel” means a wheel marked off into sections containing one or more numbers, and which, after being turned or spun, uses a pointer or marker to indicate winning chances.
“Person” is an individual, organization, firm, association, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, trustee, or legal representative.
“Profit carryover” means cumulative net profit less cumulative lawful purpose expenditures.
Subd. 31. Promotional ticket.
A pull-tab or tipboard ticket created and printed by a licensed manufacturer with the words “no purchase necessary” and “for promotional use only” and for which no consideration is given is a promotional ticket.
“Pull-tab” means a single folded or banded ticket or a multi-ply card with perforated break-open tabs, the face of which is initially covered to conceal one or more numbers or symbols, where one or more of each set of tickets or cards has been designated in advance as a winner.
“Pull-tab dispensing device” means a mechanical device that dispenses paper pull-tabs and has no additional function as an amusement or gambling device. A pull-tab dispensing device may have as a component an auditory or visual enhancement to promote or provide information about a game being dispensed, provided the component does not affect the outcome of a game or display the results of a game or an individual ticket.
“Raffle” means a game in which a participant buys a ticket or other certificate of participation in an event where the prize determination is based on a method of random selection and all entries have an equal chance of selection.
“Tipboard” means a board, placard or other device containing a seal that conceals the winning number or symbol, and that serves as the game flare for a tipboard game.
“Tipboard ticket” is a single folded or banded ticket, or multi-ply card, the face of which is initially covered or otherwise hidden from view to conceal a number, symbol, or set of symbols, some of which have been designated in advance and at random as prize winners.
“Veterans post home” means a building, or portion of a building, that is leased or owned by one or more licensed veterans organizations, and that is considered the post home for all licensed veterans organizations at that site.
“Wholly leased building” means a building that is leased in its entirety by a licensed organization, and no part or portion of the building is subleased to any other entity or licensed organization.
“Wholly owned building” means a building that is owned in its entirety by a licensed organization, and no part or portion of the building is subleased to any other entity or licensed organization.
349.13. Lawful gambling
Lawful gambling is not a lottery or gambling within the meaning of sections 609.75 to 609.76 if it is conducted under this chapter. A pull-tab dispensing device permitted by board rule is not a gambling device within the meaning of sections 609.75 to 609.76 and chapter 299L.
349.15. Use of gross profits
Subdivision 1. Expenditure restrictions. Gross profits from lawful gambling may be expended only for lawful purposes or allowable expenses as authorized by the membership of the conducting organization at a monthly meeting of the organization’s membership. Provided that no more than 70 percent of the gross profit less the tax imposed under section 297E.02, subdivision 1, from bingo, and no more than 60 percent of the gross profit from other forms of lawful gambling, may be expended biennially during the term of the license for allowable expenses related to lawful gambling. For licenses issued after June 30, 2006, compliance with this subdivision will be measured on a biennial basis that is concurrent with the term of the license. Compliance with this subdivision is a condition for the renewal of any license beginning on July 1, 2008. For licenses renewed with an effective date between July 1, 2006, and June 30, 2008, an organization shall carry forward an amount equal to 15 percent of any positive allowable expense carryover amount. This balance must be used to offset any future negative expense balance at the time of license renewal.
Subd. 1a. Disaster relief. An organization may expend net profits from lawful gambling to relieve the effects of a disaster as defined in section 12.03, subdivision 2, without the prior approval of its membership if:
(1) the contribution is a lawful purpose under section 349.12, subdivision 25;
(2) the contribution is authorized by the organization’s chief executive officer and gambling manager; and
Subd. 2. Cash shortages. In computing gross profit to determine maximum amounts which may be expended for allowable expenses under subdivision 1, an organization may not reduce its gross receipts by any cash shortages. An organization may report cash shortages to the board only as an allowable expense. An organization may not report cash shortages in any fiscal year beginning on July 1, 2004, that in total exceed three-tenths of one percent of the organization’s gross receipts from lawful gambling at each permitted premises where the organization conducts lawful gambling.
Subd. 3. Refunds and credits. For purposes of this section “gross profit” does not include any refund or credit received under section 297E.02, subdivision 4, paragraph (d).
Subd. 4. and Subd. 5 Repealed.
349.151. Gambling control board
Subdivision 1. Board created. The gambling control board is created with the powers and duties established by subdivision 4.
(a) and after July 1, 1991, the board consists of seven members, as follows: (1) those members appointed by the governor before July 1, 1991, whose terms expire June 30, 1992, June 30, 1993, and June 30, 1994; (2) one member appointed by the governor for a term expiring June 30, 1994; (3) one member appointed by the commissioner of public safety for a term expiring June 30, 1995; and (4) one member appointed by the attorney general for a term expiring June 30, 1995.
(i) waivers from fee requirements as provided in section 349.16, subdivision 6; and (ii) variances from Gambling Control Board rules under section 14.055; and
Subd. 4a.Paddle wheel rules.
(a) The board may by rule authorize but not require the use of pull-tab dispensing devices.
(b) Rules adopted under paragraph (a):
(1) must limit the number of pull-tab dispensing devices on any permitted premises to three; and (2) must limit the use of pull-tab dispensing devices to a permitted premises which is (i) a licensed premises for on-sales of intoxicating liquor or 3.2 percent malt beverages; or (ii) a premises where bingo is conducted and admission is restricted to persons 18 years or older.
(c) Notwithstanding rules adopted under paragraph (b), pull-tab dispensing devices may be used in establishments licensed for the off-sale of intoxicating liquor, other than drugstores and general food stores licensed under section 340A.405, subdivision 1.
Subd. 4c.Electronic bingo.
(1) must limit the number of bingo faces that can be played using an electronic bingo device to 36; (2) must require that an electronic bingo device be used with corresponding bingo paper sheets or a facsimile, printed at the point of sale, as approved by the board; (3) must require that the electronic bingo device site system have dial-up capability to permit the board to remotely monitor the operation of the device and the internal accounting systems; and (4) must prohibit the price of a face played on an electronic bingo device from being less than the price of a face on a bingo paper sheet sold at the same occasion.
MS 1988 [Repealed, 1989 c 334 art 2 s 52] Subd. 5.Attorney general.
An applicant, licensee, or other person subject to the board’s jurisdiction must:
(1) comply with requests for information or documents, or other requests, from the board or director within the time specified in the request or, if no time is specified, within 30 days of the date the board or director mails the request; and (2) appear before the board or director when requested to do so, and must bring documents or materials requested by the board or director.
In addition to any authority to adopt rules specifically authorized under this chapter, the board may adopt, amend, or repeal rules under chapter 14, when necessary or proper in discharging the board’s powers and duties.
349.152. Director
Subdivision 1. Appointed. The governor shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the senate, a director from a list of one or more persons submitted by the board. The director serves in the unclassified service at the pleasure of the governor.
Subd. 2. Duties of director. The director has the following duties:
(1) to carry out gambling policy established by the board;
(2) to employ and supervise personnel of the board;
(3) to advise and make recommendations to the board on rules, policy, and legislative initiatives;
(4) to approve or deny operational requests from licensees as delegated by the board;
(5) to issue licenses and premises permits as authorized by the board;
(6) to issue cease and desist orders;
(7) to make recommendations to the board on license issuance, denial, censure, suspension and revocation, civil penalties, and corrective action the board imposes;
(8) to ensure that board rules, policy, and decisions are adequately and accurately conveyed to the board’s licensees;
(9) to conduct investigations, inspections, compliance reviews, and audits under this chapter; and
(10) to issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents, books, records, and other evidence relating to an investigation, compliance review, or audit the director is authorized to conduct.
Subd. 3. Cease and desist orders. (a) Whenever it appears to the director that any person has engaged or is about to engage in any act or practice constituting a violation of this chapter or any board rule or order the director may issue and cause to be served upon the person an order requiring the person to cease and desist from violations of this chapter or board rule or order. The order must give reasonable notice of the rights of the person to request a hearing and must state the reason for the entry of the order. Unless otherwise agreed between the parties, a hearing shall be held not later than seven days after the request for the hearing is received by the board after which and within 20 days after the receipt of the administrative law judge’s report and subsequent exceptions and argument the board shall issue an order vacating the cease and desist order, modifying it, or making it permanent as the facts require. If no hearing is requested within 30 days of the service of the order, the order becomes final and remains in effect until modified or vacated by the board or director. All hearings shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of chapter 14. If the person to whom a cease and desist order is issued fails to appear at the hearing after being duly notified, the person shall be deemed in default, and the proceeding may be determined against the person upon consideration of the cease and desist order, the allegations of which may be deemed to be true.
(b) Whenever it appears to the board that any person has engaged or is about to engage in any act or practice that violates this chapter or any board rule or order, the board may bring an action in the district court in the appropriate county to enjoin the acts or practices and to enforce compliance with this chapter or any board rule or order and may refer the matter to the attorney general. Upon a proper showing, a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining order, or writ of mandamus shall be granted. The court may not require the board to post a bond.
Subd. 4. Executive assistant. The director may appoint an executive assistant to the director, who is in the unclassified service.
349.153. Conflict of interest
(a) A person may not serve on the board, be the director, or be an employee of the board who has an interest in any corporation, association, limited liability company, or partnership that is licensed by the board as a distributor, manufacturer, or linked bingo game provider.
(d) A member of the board, the director, or an employee of the board may not purchase any chance in a lawful gambling game unless it is part of an investigation.
349.154. Expenditures; Standards
Subdivision 1. Standards for certain organizations. The board shall by rule prescribe standards that must be met annually by any licensed organization that is a 501(c)(3) or festival organization. The standards must provide:
(1) operating standards for the organization, including a maximum percentage or percentages of the organization’s total expenditures that may be expended for the organization’s administration and operation; and
[Repealed, 1991 c 336 art 2 s 53]
Subd. 3a.Expenditures for recreational, community, and athletic programs.
An organization that makes a greater percentage of its lawful purpose expenditures under section 349.12, subdivision 25, paragraph (a), clause (7), on facilities or activities for one gender rather than another may not deny a reasonable request for funding of a facility or activity for the underrepresented gender if the request is for funding for a facility or activity that is a lawful purpose under that clause. An applicant for funding for a facility or activity for an underrepresented gender who believes that an application for funding was denied in violation of this subdivision may file a complaint with the board. The board shall prescribe a form for the complaint and shall furnish a copy of the form to any requester. The board shall investigate each complaint filed and, if the board finds that the organization against which the complaint was filed has violated this subdivision, shall issue an order directing the organization to take such corrective action as the board deems necessary to bring the organization into compliance with this subdivision.
349.155. Licenses; license actions
Subdivision 1.Forms
(1) has ever been convicted of a felony or a crime involving gambling; (2) has ever been convicted of (i) assault, (ii) a criminal violation involving the use of a firearm, or (iii) making terroristic threats; (3) is or has ever been connected with or engaged in an illegal business; (4) owes $500 or more in delinquent taxes as defined in section 270C.72; (5) had a sales and use tax permit revoked by the commissioner of revenue within the past two years; or (6) after demand, has not filed tax returns required by the commissioner of revenue. The board may deny or refuse to renew a license under this chapter, and may revoke a license under this chapter, if any of the conditions in this paragraph are applicable to an affiliate or direct or indirect holder of more than a five percent financial interest in the applicant or licensee.
(1) has been convicted of a felony or gross misdemeanor involving theft or fraud; (2) has ever been convicted of a crime involving gambling; or (3) has had a license issued by the board or director permanently revoked for violation of law or board rule..
The board may by order (i) deny, suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew a license or premises permit, or (ii) censure a licensee or applicant, if it finds that the order is in the public interest and that the applicant or licensee, or a director, officer, partner, governor, person in a supervisory or management position of the applicant or licensee, an employee eligible to make sales on behalf of the applicant or licensee, or direct or indirect holder of more than a five percent financial interest in the applicant or licensee:
(1) has violated or failed to comply with any provision of this chapter or chapter 297E or 299L, or any rule adopted or order issued thereunder; (2) has filed an application for a license that is incomplete in any material respect, or contains a statement that, in light of the circumstances under which it was made, is false, misleading, fraudulent, or a misrepresentation; (3) has made a false statement in a document or report required to be submitted to the board or the commissioner of revenue, or has made a false statement to the board, the compliance review group, or the director; (4) has been convicted of a crime in another jurisdiction that would be a felony if committed in Minnesota; (5) is permanently or temporarily enjoined by any gambling regulatory agency from engaging in or continuing any conduct or practice involving any aspect of gambling; (6) has had a gambling-related license revoked or suspended, or has paid or been required to pay a monetary penalty of $2,500 or more, by a gambling regulator in another state or jurisdiction; (7) has been the subject of any of the following actions by the director of alcohol and gambling enforcement or commissioner of public safety: (i) had a license under chapter 299L denied, suspended, or revoked, (ii) been censured, reprimanded, has paid or been required to pay a monetary penalty or fine, or (iii) has been the subject of any other discipline by the director or commissioner; (8) has engaged in conduct that is contrary to the public health, welfare, or safety, or to the integrity of gambling; or (9) based on past activities or criminal record poses a threat to the public interest or to the effective regulation and control of gambling, or creates or enhances the dangers of unsuitable, unfair, or illegal practices, methods, and activities in the conduct of gambling or the carrying on of the business and financial arrangements incidental to the conduct of gambling.
(a) The board may not deny, suspend, or revoke an organization’s premises permit because illegal gambling occurred at the site for which the premises permit was issued, unless the board determines that: (1) the organization knowingly participated in the illegal gambling; or (2) the organization or any of its agents knew of the illegal gambling and the organization did not notify the lessor of the premises, in writing and with specificity, that illegal gambling was being conducted on the premises and requesting that the lessor take appropriate action. For purposes of this paragraph, “agent” means any person, compensated or otherwise, who participates in the conduct of the organization’s lawful gambling.
(b) The board may not deny, suspend, or revoke an organization’s license because illegal gambling occurred at a site for which a premises permit was issued to the organization unless the board determines that the organization’s chief executive officer, gambling manager, or one or more of its assistant gambling managers participated in or authorized the illegal gambling.
349.16. Organization licenses
(1) did not conduct and report any gambling sales activity within seven months from the date of the last gambling activity; (2) failed to have a gambling manager as required by section 349.167; (3) failed to pay annual license and permit fees; or (4) surrenders, withdraws, or otherwise terminates the license and files a termination plan required under section 349.19.
(1) institute a proceeding under section 349.155; (2) require the organization to file a termination plan required under section 349.19; (3) enter a revocation order as of the date on which the license was considered lapsed; (4) impose a civil penalty as provided under section 349.151, subdivision 4; (5) order corrective action as provided under section 349.151, subdivision 7; or (6) summarily suspend the license as provided under section 349.1641.
The board shall impose an annual fee of $350 for an organization’s license. Organizations that expect to receive less than $100,000 in gross annual receipts may request from the board a waiver of organization license fees.
An organization must pay a monthly regulatory fee of 0.1 percent of the organization’s gross receipts from lawful gambling conducted each month. The fee must be reported and paid on a monthly basis in a format as determined by the commissioner of revenue, and remitted to the commissioner of revenue with the organization’s monthly tax return. All monthly regulatory fees received by the commissioner of revenue under this subdivision must be deposited in the lawful gambling regulation account in the special revenue fund according to section 349.151. Failure to pay the monthly regulatory fees in a timely manner may result in disciplinary action by the board.
(1) for cities of the first class, $500; (2) for cities of the second class, $250; (3) for all other cities, $100; and (4) for counties, $375.
349.161 DISTRIBUTOR LICENSES.
Subdivision 1. Prohibited acts; licenses required.
(1) sell, offer for sale, or furnish gambling equipment for use within the state other than for lawful gambling exempt or excluded from licensing, except to an organization licensed for lawful gambling; (2) sell, offer for sale, or furnish gambling equipment for use within the state without having obtained a distributor license or a distributor salesperson license under this section except that an organization authorized to conduct bingo by the board may loan bingo hard cards and devices for selecting bingo numbers to another organization authorized to conduct bingo; (3) sell, offer for sale, or furnish gambling equipment for use within the state that is not purchased or obtained from a manufacturer or distributor licensed under this chapter; or (4) sell, offer for sale, or furnish gambling equipment for use within the state that has the same serial number as another item of gambling equipment of the same type sold or offered for sale or furnished for use in the state by that distributor.
Subd. 2.License application.
The board may issue licenses for the sale of gambling equipment to persons who meet the qualifications of this section if the board determines that a license is consistent with the purpose of sections 349.11 to 349.22. Applications must be on a form the board prescribes.
(a) The annual fee for a distributor’s license is $6,000.
(b) The annual fee for a distributor salesperson license is $100.
Subd. 5. Prohibition.
(b) No distributor, distributor salesperson, or any representative, agent, affiliate, or other employee of a distributor, may: (1) be involved in the conduct of lawful gambling by an organization; (2) keep or assist in the keeping of an organization’s financial records, accounts, and inventories; or (3) prepare or assist in the preparation of tax forms and other reporting forms required to be submitted to the state by an organization.
(f) No distributor, distributor salesperson, or any representative, agent, affiliate, or other employee of a distributor may alter or modify any gambling equipment, except to add a “last ticket sold” prize sticker.
Subd. 8.Employees of distributors.
Licensed distributors shall provide the board upon request with the names and home addresses of all employees. Each distributor and employee of a distributor must have in their possession a picture identification card approved by the board. No person other than an employee of a licensed distributor shall make any sales on behalf of a licensed distributor.
349.162 EQUIPMENT REGISTERED.
A distributor may not sell, transfer, furnish, or otherwise provide to a person, and no person may purchase, borrow, accept, or acquire from a distributor gambling equipment for use within the state unless the equipment has been registered with the board or the Department of Revenue in a manner prescribed by the board or the Department of Revenue. Gambling equipment kept in violation of this subdivision is contraband under section 349.2125.
Subd. 2.Records required.
A distributor must maintain a record of all gambling equipment which it sells to organizations as required by section 297E.05, subdivision 2, and provide copies of the record to the board upon demand. Employees of the board and the Division of Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement may inspect the business premises, books, records, and other documents of a distributor at any reasonable time without notice and without a search warrant.
The board may require that a distributor submit the monthly report and invoices required in this subdivision via magnetic media or electronic data transfer.
(a) No person other than a licensed distributor may possess unaffixed registration stamps issued by the board for the purpose of registering gambling equipment.
(b) Unless otherwise provided in this chapter, no person may possess gambling equipment that has not been registered.
(c) No distributor may:
(1) sell a bingo hard card or paper sheet that does not bear an individual number; or (2) sell a package of bingo paper sheets that does not contain bingo paper sheets in numerical order.
Subd. 5.Sales from facilities.
(a) All gambling equipment purchased or possessed by a licensed distributor for resale to any person for use in Minnesota must, prior to the equipment’s resale, be unloaded into a storage facility located in Minnesota which the distributor owns or leases; and which has been registered, in advance and in writing, with the Division of Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement as a storage facility of the distributor. All unregistered gambling equipment and all unaffixed registration stamps owned by, or in the possession of, a licensed distributor in the state of Minnesota shall be stored at a storage facility which has been registered with the Division of Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement. No gambling equipment may be moved from the facility unless the gambling equipment has been first registered with the board or the Department of Revenue.
(b) Notwithstanding section 349.163, subdivisions 5, 6, and 8, a licensed manufacturer may ship into Minnesota approved or unapproved gambling equipment if the licensed manufacturer ships the gambling equipment to a Minnesota storage facility that is: (1) owned or leased by the licensed manufacturer; and (2) registered, in advance and in writing, with the Division of Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement as a manufacturer’s storage facility. No gambling equipment may be shipped into Minnesota to the manufacturer’s registered storage facility unless the shipment of the gambling equipment is reported to the Department of Revenue in a manner prescribed by the department. No gambling equipment may be moved from the storage facility unless the gambling equipment is sold to a licensed distributor and is otherwise in conformity with this chapter, is shipped to an out-of-state site and the shipment is reported to the Department of Revenue in a manner prescribed by the department, or is otherwise sold and shipped as permitted by board rule.
(c) All storage facilities owned, leased, used, or operated by a licensed distributor or manufacturer may be entered upon and inspected by the employees of the Division of Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement, the Division of Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement director’s authorized representatives, employees of the Gambling Control Board or its authorized representatives, employees of the Department of Revenue, or authorized representatives of the director of the Division of Special Taxes of the Department of Revenue during reasonable and regular business hours. Obstruction of, or failure to permit, entry and inspection is cause for revocation or suspension of a manufacturer’s or distributor’s licenses and permits issued under this chapter.
(d) Unregistered gambling equipment found at any location in Minnesota other than the manufacturing plant of a licensed manufacturer or a registered storage facility are contraband under section 349.2125. This paragraph does not apply:
(1) to unregistered gambling equipment being transported in interstate commerce between locations outside this state, if the interstate shipment is verified by a bill of lading or other valid shipping document; and (2) to gambling equipment registered with the Department of Revenue for distribution to the tribal casinos.
Subd. 6.Removal of equipment from inventory.
Authorized employees of the board, the Division of Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement of the Department of Public Safety, and the commissioner of revenue may remove gambling equipment from the inventories of distributors and organizations and test that equipment to determine its compliance with all applicable laws and rules. A distributor or organization may return to the manufacturer thereof any gambling equipment which is determined to be in violation of law or rule. The cost to an organization of gambling equipment removed from inventory under this paragraph and found to be in compliance with all applicable law and rules is an allowable expense under section 349.12, subdivision 3a.
349.163. Licensing of manufacturers
Subdivision 1. License required. No manufacturer of gambling equipment may sell any gambling equipment to any person for use or resale within the state, unless the manufacturer has a current and valid license issued by the board under this section and has satisfied other criteria prescribed by the board by rule.
Subd. 1a. Repealed by Laws 1994, c. 633, art. 5, § 99.
Subd. 1b. Applications; information. An applicant for a manufacturer’s license must list on the license application the names and addresses of all subsidiaries, affiliates, and branches in which the applicant has any form of ownership or control, in whole or in part, without regard to whether the subsidiary, affiliate, or branch does business in Minnesota.
Subd. 2. License; fee. The annual fee for a manufacturer’s license is $9,000.
Subd. 2a. Repealed by Laws 1994, c. 633, art. 5, § 99.
Subd. 3. Prohibited sales. (a) A manufacturer may not:
Subd. 4. Inspection of manufacturers. Employees of the board and the division of alcohol and gambling enforcement may inspect the books, records, inventory, and business premises of a licensed manufacturer without notice during the normal business hours of the manufacturer. The board may charge a manufacturer for the actual cost of conducting scheduled or unscheduled inspections of the manufacturer’s facilities, where the amount charged to the manufacturer for such inspections in any year does not exceed $7,500. The board shall deposit in a separate account in the state treasury all money received as reimbursement for the costs of inspections. Money in the account is appropriated to the board to pay the costs of the inspections.
Subd. 5. Pull-tab and tipboard flares. (a) A manufacturer may not ship or cause to be shipped into this state or sell for use or resale in this state any deal of pull-tabs or tipboards that does not have its own individual flare as required for that deal by this subdivision and rule of the board. A person other than a manufacturer may not manufacture, alter, modify, or otherwise change a flare for a deal of pull-tabs or tipboards except as allowed by this chapter or board rules.
(b) The flare of each pull-tab and tipboard game must have affixed to or imprinted at the bottom a bar code that provides all information required by the commissioner of revenue under section 297E.04, subdivision 2.
The serial number included in the bar code must be the same as the serial number of the tickets included in the deal. A manufacturer who manufactures a deal of pull-tabs must affix to the outside of the box containing that game the same bar code that is affixed to or imprinted at the bottom of a flare for that deal.
(c) No person may alter the bar code that appears on the outside of a box containing a deal of pull-tabs and tipboards. Possession of a box containing a deal of pull-tabs and tipboards that has a bar code different from the bar code of the deal inside the box is prima facie evidence that the possessor has altered the bar code on the box.
(d) The flare of each deal of pull-tabs and tipboards sold by a manufacturer for use or resale in Minnesota must have imprinted on it a symbol that is at least one inch high and one inch wide consisting of an outline of the geographic boundaries of Minnesota with the letters “MN” inside the outline. The flare must be placed inside the wrapping of the deal which the flare describes.
(e) Each pull-tab and tipboard flare must bear the following statement printed in letters large enough to be clearly legible:
“Pull-tab (or tipboard) purchasers — This pull-tab (or tipboard) game is not legal in Minnesota unless:
— an outline of Minnesota with letters ‘MN’ inside it is imprinted on this sheet, and
— the serial number imprinted on the bar code at the bottom of this sheet is the same as the serial number on the pull-tab (or tipboard) ticket you have purchased.”
(f) The flare of each pull-tab and tipboard game must have the serial number of the game imprinted on the bar code at the bottom of the flare in numerals at least one-half inch high.
Subd. 6. Samples of gambling equipment. The board shall require each licensed manufacturer to submit to the board one or more samples of each item of gambling equipment the manufacturer manufactures for use or resale in this state. The board shall inspect and test all the equipment it deems necessary to determine the equipment’s compliance with law and board rules. Samples required under this subdivision must be approved by the board before the equipment being sampled is shipped into or sold for use or resale in this state. The board shall impose a fee of $25 for each item of gambling equipment that the manufacturer submits for approval or for which the manufacturer requests approval. The board shall impose a fee of $100 for each sample of gambling equipment that it tests. The board may require samples of gambling equipment to be tested by an independent testing laboratory prior to submission to the board for approval. All costs of testing by an independent testing laboratory must be borne by the manufacturer. An independent testing laboratory used by a manufacturer to test samples of gambling equipment must be approved by the board before the equipment is submitted to the laboratory for testing. The board may request the assistance of the commissioner of public safety and the director of the state lottery in performing the tests.
Subd. 6a . Repealed by Laws 2002, c. 386, art. 1, § 12.
Subd. 7. Recycled paper. The board may, after January 1, 1991, by rule require that all pull-tabs sold in Minnesota be manufactured using recycled paper.
Subd. 8. Paddleticket card master flares. Each sealed grouping of 100 or fewer paddleticket cards must have its own individual master flare. The manufacturer must affix to or imprint at the bottom of the master flare a bar code that provides all information required by the commissioner of revenue under section 297E.04, subdivision 3.
Subd. 9. Sales required. No licensed manufacturer may refuse to sell gambling equipment to a licensed distributor unless:
349.1635. Linked bingo game provider license
No person may do any of the following without having first obtained a license from the board:
(1) provide the means to link prizes in a linked bingo game; (2) provide linked bingo game prize management; (3) provide the linked bingo system; or (4) provide linked bingo paper sheets to an organization.
The board may issue a license to a linked bingo game provider who meets the qualifications of this chapter and the rules promulgated by the board. The application shall be on a form prescribed by the board. The license is valid for two years and the fee for a linked bingo game provider license is $5,000 per year.
Subd. 3.Attachments to application.
(1) evidence of a bond in the principal amount of $100,000 payable to the state of Minnesota conditioned on the payment of all linked bingo prizes and any other money due and payable under this chapter; (2) detailed plans and specifications for the operation of the linked bingo game and the linked bingo system, along with a proposed fee schedule for the cost of providing services and equipment to licensed organizations; and (3) any other information required by the board by rule.
(1) hold any financial or managerial interest in a premises leased for the conduct of bingo; (2) also be licensed as a distributor or hold any financial or managerial interest in a distributor; (3) sell or lease linked bingo game equipment to any person not licensed as an organization; (4) purchase gambling equipment to be used exclusively in a linked bingo game from any person not licensed as a manufacturer under section 349.163; (5) provide a lessor of gambling premises or an appointed official any compensation, gift, gratuity, premium, or contribution; and (6) provide an employee or agent of the organization any compensation, gift, gratuity, premium, or other thing of value greater than $25 per organization in a calendar year.
(b) Employees of the board and the Division of Alcohol and Gambling Enforcement may inspect the books, records, inventory, and business premises of a licensed linked bingo game provider without notice during the normal business hours of the linked bingo game provider. The board may charge a linked bingo game provider for the actual cost of conducting scheduled or unscheduled inspections of the licensee’s facilities.
(a) The board may (1) summarily suspend the license of an organization that is more than 45 days late in filing a tax return or in paying a tax required under chapter 297E and may keep the suspension in effect until all required returns are filed and required taxes are paid; (2) summarily suspend for not more than 90 days any license issued by the board or director for what the board determines are actions detrimental to the integrity of lawful gambling in Minnesota; (3) summarily suspend the license of a gambling manager who has failed to receive the training required under section 349.167, subdivision 4, clause (2), and may keep the suspension in effect until the gambling manager passes an examination prepared and administered by the board. The examination does not qualify as continuing education credit for the next calendar year; and (4) summarily suspend the license of an organization that fails to pay the fees required under section 349.16, 349.165, or 349.167, and may keep the suspension in effect until all required fees are paid.
(b) The board must notify the licensee at least 14 days before suspending the license under this section. If a license is summarily suspended under this section, a contested case hearing on the merits must be held within 20 days of the issuance of the order of suspension, unless the parties agree to a later hearing date. The administrative law judge’s report must be issued within 20 days after the close of the hearing record. In all cases involving summary suspension, the board must issue its final decision within 30 days after receipt of the report of the administrative law judge and subsequent exceptions and argument under section 14.61. When an organization’s license is suspended under this section, the board shall within three days notify all municipalities in which the organization’s gambling premises are located and all licensed distributors in the state.
(1) the name and address of the applying organization; (2) a description of the site for which the permit is sought, including its address and, where applicable, its placement within another premises or establishment; (3) if the site is leased, the name and address of the lessor and information about the lease the board requires, including all rents and other charges for the use of the site. The lease term is concurrent with the term of the premises permit. The lease must contain a 30-day termination clause. No lease is required for the conduct of a raffle; and (4) other information the board deems necessary to carry out its purposes.
(a) A licensed organization may conduct lawful gambling on a premises other than the organization’s permitted premises if it has first submitted to the board an application and lease on forms provided by the board, obtained authorization required under section 349.213, and received a permit from the board for up to four events in a calendar year in connection with a county fair, the State Fair, a church festival, or a civic celebration, not to exceed three days per event.
(1) by an organization in connection with a county fair, the state fair, or a civic celebration and is not conducted for more than 12 consecutive days and is limited to no more than four separate applications for activities applied for and approved in a calendar year; or (2) by an organization that conducts bingo on four or fewer days in a calendar year.
(1) the organization conducts lawful gambling on five or fewer days in a calendar year; (2) the organization does not award more than $50,000 in prizes for lawful gambling in a calendar year; (3) the organization submits a board-prescribed application and pays a fee of $50 to the board for each gambling occasion, and receives an exempt permit number from the board. If the application is postmarked or received less than 30 days before the gambling occasion, the fee is $100 for that application. The application must include the date and location of the occasion, the types of lawful gambling to be conducted, and the prizes to be awarded; (4) the organization notifies the local government unit 30 days before the lawful gambling occasion, or 60 days for an occasion held in a city of the first class; (5) the organization purchases all gambling equipment and supplies from a licensed distributor; and (6) the organization reports to the board, on a single-page form prescribed by the board, within 30 days of each gambling occasion, the gross receipts, prizes, expenses, expenditures of net profits from the occasion, and the identification of the licensed distributor from whom all gambling equipment was purchased.
(b) If the organization fails to file a timely report as required by paragraph (a), clause (6), the board shall not issue any authorization, license, or permit to the organization to conduct lawful gambling on an exempt, excluded, or licensed basis until the report has been filed and the organization may be subject to penalty as determined by the board. The board may refuse to issue any authorization, license, or permit if a report or application is determined to be incomplete or knowingly contains false or inaccurate information.
(d) Organizations that qualify to conduct exempt raffles under paragraph (a), are exempt from section 349.173, paragraph (b), clause (2), if the raffle tickets are sold only in combination with an organization’s membership or a ticket for an organization’s membership dinner and are not included with any other raffle conducted under the exempt permit.
(f) The organization must maintain all required records of exempt gambling activity for 3-1/2 years.
349.167. Gambling managers
Subdivision 1.Gambling manager required.
(a) All lawful gambling conducted by a licensed organization must be under the supervision of a gambling manager. A gambling manager designated by an organization to supervise lawful gambling is responsible for the gambling gross receipts of the organization and for its conduct in compliance with all laws and rules. A person designated as a gambling manager shall maintain a dishonesty bond in the sum of $10,000 in favor of the organization conditioned on the faithful performance of the manager’s duties. The terms of the bond must provide that notice be given to the board in writing not less than 30 days before its cancellation.
(b) A person may not act as a gambling manager for more than one organization.
(c) An organization may not conduct lawful gambling without having a gambling manager.
(d) An organization may not have more than one gambling manager at any time.
Subd. 2.Gambling managers; licenses.
(a) A person may not serve as a gambling manager for an organization unless the person possesses a valid gambling manager’s license issued by the board or otherwise meets the temporary requirements allowed under paragraph (d). In addition to the disqualifications in section 349.155, subdivision 3, the board may not issue a gambling manager’s license to a person applying for the license who:
(1) has not complied with subdivision 4, clauses (1) and (2); (2) within the five years before the date of the license application, has committed a violation of law or board rule that resulted in the revocation of a license issued by the board; (3) has ever been convicted of a criminal violation involving fraud, theft, tax evasion, misrepresentation, or gambling; or (4) has engaged in conduct the board determines is contrary to the public health, welfare, or safety or the integrity of lawful gambling.
(b) A gambling manager’s license runs concurrent with the organization’s license unless the gambling manager’s license is suspended or revoked by the board or otherwise terminated by the organization or gambling manager.
(c) The annual fee for a gambling manager’s license is $100.
(1) contact the board within one business day to establish a plan to replace the gambling manager; and (2) submit a complete application and fee within four business days.
Subd. 4. Training of gambling managers.
All persons licensed as gambling managers must receive training in laws and rules governing lawful gambling to comply with the following requirements:
(1) each gambling manager must receive training within the last six months before being issued a new license, except that in the case of the death, disability, resignation, or termination of a gambling manager, a replacement gambling manager must receive the training within 90 days of being issued a license; (2) each gambling manager must receive continuing education training at least once during each calendar year; and (3) the training required by this subdivision may be provided by a person authorized by the board to provide the training. Before authorizing a person to provide training, the board must determine that:
(i) the provider and all of the provider’s personnel conducting the training are qualified to do so; (ii) the curriculum to be used fully and accurately covers all elements of lawful gambling law and rules that the board determines are necessary for a gambling manager to know and understand; (iii) the fee to be charged for participants in the training sessions is fair and reasonable; and (iv) the training provider has an adequate system for documenting completion of training.
Subd. 6.Recruitment of gambling managers.
No organization may seek or accept assistance from a manufacturer, distributor, or linked bingo game provider, or a representative, agent, affiliate, or employee of a manufacturer, distributor, or linked bingo game provider, in identifying or recruiting candidates to become a gambling manager for the organization.
Subd. 7. Gambling manager examination.
Each applicant for a new gambling manager’s license must pass an examination prepared and administered by the board that tests the applicant’s knowledge of the responsibilities of gambling managers, and of gambling procedures, laws, and rules before being issued the license. In the case of the death, disability, resignation, or termination of a gambling manager, a replacement gambling manager must pass the examination within 90 days of being issued a gambling manager’s license. The board shall revoke the replacement gambling manager’s license if the replacement gambling manager fails to pass the examination as required in this subdivision.
A person may not receive compensation for participating in the conduct of lawful gambling as an employee of a licensed organization unless the person has first registered with the board on a form the board prescribes. The form must require each registrant to provide the person’s name, address, and date of birth, and the name, address, and license number of the employing organization.
Each person receiving compensation for the conduct of lawful gambling must publicly display the person’s name at all times while conducting the lawful gambling.
(c) An organization that leases a premises may not pay compensation to the lessor, a member of the lessor’s immediate family, or the lessor’s employees, other than as a seller of pull-tabs and tipboards within a booth operation on the premises. A member of the lessor’s immediate family may be compensated by an organization for the conduct of gambling at other sites not owned by the lessor.
349.169 FILING OF PRICES.
When required by the board, manufacturers, distributors, and linked bingo game providers must file with the director the prices at which the manufacturer, distributor, or linked bingo game provider will sell all gambling equipment currently offered for sale by that manufacturer, distributor, or linked bingo game provider. The filing must be in a format the director prescribes.
Subd. 3.Sales at filed prices.
When required to report under subdivision 1, no manufacturer may sell to a distributor or linked bingo game provider, and no distributor or linked bingo game provider may sell to an organization, any gambling equipment for any price other than a price the manufacturer, distributor, or linked bingo game provider has filed with the director under subdivision 1, including volume discounts, and exclusive of transportation costs.
349.17. Conduct of bingo
Subd. 1 .
(1) staffing of the bingo occasion; (2) conducting of lawful gambling during the bingo occasion; (3) acquiring, storage, inventory control, and reporting of all gambling equipment used by the organization; (4) receipt, accounting, and all expenditures of gross receipts from lawful gambling; and (5) preparation of the bingo packets.
One or more checkers must be engaged for each bingo occasion when bingo is conducted using bingo hard cards. The checker or checkers must record, on a form the board provides, the number of hard cards played in each game and the prizes awarded to recorded hard cards. The form must provide for the inclusion of the face number of each winning hard card and must include a checker’s certification that the figures recorded are correct to the best of the checker’s knowledge.
(b) The requirements of paragraph (a) shall only apply to a licensed organization that received gross receipts from bingo in excess of $150,000 in the organization’s last fiscal year.
(c) Each bingo hard card, bingo paper sheet, or a facsimile of a bingo paper sheet must have five horizontal rows of spaces with each row except one having five numbers. The center row must have four numbers and the center space marked “free.” Each column must have one of the letters B-I-N-G-O in order at the top. Bingo paper sheets may also have numbers that are not preprinted but are filled in by players.
(1) the bingo is conducted at a site the organization owns or leases and which has a license for the sale of intoxicating beverages on the premises under chapter 340A; (2) the bingo is conducted using only bingo paper sheets or facsimiles of bingo paper sheets purchased from a licensed distributor or licensed linked bingo game provider; and (3) no rent may be paid for a bar bingo occasion.
(1) specify the manner in which a linked bingo game must be played and how the linked bingo prizes must be awarded; (2) specify the records to be maintained by a linked bingo game provider; (3) require the submission of periodic reports by the linked bingo game provider and specify the content of the reports; (4) establish the qualifications required to be licensed as a linked bingo game provider; and (5) any other matter involving the operation of a linked bingo game.
349.1711. Conduct of tipboards
Subdivision 1. Sale of tickets. Tipboard games must be played using only tipboard tickets that are either (1) attached to a placard and arranged in columns or rows, or (2) separate from the placard and contained in a receptacle while the game is in play. The placard serves as the game flare. The placard must contain a seal that conceals the winning number or symbol. When a tipboard ticket is purchased and opened from a game containing more than 32 tickets, each player having a tipboard ticket with one or more predesignated numbers or symbols must sign the placard at the line indicated by the number or symbol on the tipboard ticket.
Subd. 2. Determination of winners. When the predesignated numbers or symbols have all been purchased, or all of the tipboard tickets for that game have been sold, the seal must be removed to reveal a number or symbol that determines which of the predesignated numbers or symbols is the winning number or symbol. A tipboard may also contain consolation winners that need not be determined by the use of the seal.
Subd. 3. Prizes. Cash or merchandise prizes may be awarded in a tipboard game. All prizes available in each game must be stated on the game flare.
Subd. 4. Repealed by Laws 2004, c. 172, § 12, eff. May 1, 2004.
Subd. 5. Tipboard rules. The board shall adopt rules for tipboard games with multiple seals. The board shall also adopt rules for cumulative or carryover tipboard prizes.
349.172. Pull-tabs; information required to be posted
Subdivision 1. Board may require certain posting. The board may issue an order requiring an organization selling pull-tabs to post major pull-tab prizes and the names of major prize winners if the board has reasonable grounds to believe that the organization, or a person receiving compensation from the organization for participating in the sale of pull-tabs, has been or is providing information to a player or players that provides an unfair advantage related to the potential winnings from pull-tabs. The board must notify the organization at least 14 days before the order becomes effective. The notice to the organization must describe the organization’s right to a hearing under subdivision 3.
Subd. 2. Posting; requirements. The information required to be posted under subdivision 1 must be posted prominently at the point of sale of the pull-tabs. An easily legible pull-tab flare that lists prizes in the deal for that flare, and on which prizes are marked off as they are awarded, satisfies the requirements of this section that major prizes be posted, provided that a separate flare is posted for each deal of pull-tabs. An organization must post or mark off each major prize and post the name of the prize winner immediately on awarding the prize.
Subd. 3. Appeal. An organization to which the board issues an order under subdivision 1 may request a contested case hearing on the order. The hearing must be held within 20 days of the effective date of the order, and the report by the administrative law judge must be issued within 20 days after the close of the hearing record. The board must issue its final decision within 30 days after receipt of the report of the administrative law judge and subsequent exceptions and arguments under section 14.61.
Subd. 4. Major prizes. For purposes of this section, a “major prize” in a deal of pull-tabs is a prize of at least 50 times the face value of any pull-tab in the deal.
Subd. 5. Compulsive gambling hotline number. An organization conducting lawful gambling must post at each point of sale a sign containing the toll-free telephone number established by the commissioner of human services in connection with the compulsive gambling program established under section 245.98. The sign must be kept in easily legible form and repair by the owner, lessee, or person having control thereof, and must either:
(1) be approved by the commissioner; or
(2) have lettering at least three-quarters of an inch in height, of block letter design.
Subd. 6. Voluntary posting. Nothing in this section limits the right of an organization voluntarily to post the names of winners of lawful gambling prizes.
349.1721. Conduct of pull-tabs
Subdivision 1. Cumulative or carryover games. The board shall by rule permit pull-tab games with multiple seals. The board shall also adopt rules for pull-tab games with cumulative or carryover prizes.
Subd. 2. Event games. The board shall by rule permit pull-tab games in which certain winners are determined by the random selection of one or more bingo numbers or by another method approved by the board.
349.173. Conduct of raffles
(a) Raffle tickets or certificates of participation at a minimum must list the three most expensive prizes to be awarded. If additional prizes will be awarded, a complete list of additional prizes must be publicly posted at the event and copies of the complete prize list made available upon request. Notwithstanding section 349.12, subdivision 33, raffles conducted under the exemptions in section 349.166 may use tickets that contain only the sequential number of the raffle ticket and no other information if the organization makes a list of prizes and a statement of other relevant information required by rule available to persons purchasing tickets and if tickets are only sold at the event and on the date when the tickets are drawn.
349.18. Premises used for gambling
Subdivision 1. Lease or ownership required; rent limitations.
(i) in any month where the organization’s gross profit at those premises does not exceed $4,000, up to $400; and (ii) in any month where the organization’s gross profit at those premises exceeds $4,000, up to $400 plus not more than ten percent of the gross profit for that month in excess of $4,000; (2) for bar operations, including bar operations where a pull-tab dispensing device is located but not including bar operations subject to clause (1), and for locations where only a pull-tab dispensing device is located:
(i) in any month where the organization’s gross profit at those premises does not exceed $1,000, up to $200; and (ii) in any month where the organization’s gross profit at those premises exceeds $1,000, up to $200 plus not more than 20 percent of the gross profit for that month in excess of $1,000; (3) a lease not governed by clauses (1) and (2) must be approved by the board before becoming effective; (4) total rent paid to a lessor from all organizations from leases governed by clause (1) may not exceed $1,750 per month.
(1) not more than ten percent of the monthly gross profit from all lawful gambling activities held during bingo occasions excluding bar bingo or at a rate based on a cost per square foot not to exceed 110 percent of a comparable cost per square foot for leased space as approved by the director; and (2) no rent may be paid for bar bingo.
(d) Amounts paid as rent under leases are all-inclusive. No other services or expenses provided or contracted by the lessor may be paid by the organization, including, but not limited to, trash removal, janitorial and cleaning services, snow removal, lawn services, electricity, heat, security, security monitoring, storage, other utilities or services, and, in the case of bar operations, cash shortages, unless approved by the director. Any other expenditure made by an organization that is related to a leased premises must be approved by the director. An organization may not provide any compensation or thing of value to a lessor or the lessor’s employees from any fund source other than its gambling account. Rent payments may not be made to an individual.
(a) Gambling equipment owned by or in the possession of an organization must be kept at a permitted premises owned or leased by the organization, or at other storage sites within the state that the organization has notified the board are being used as gambling equipment storage sites. At each storage site or permitted premises, the organization must have the invoices or true and correct copies of the invoices for the purchase of all gambling equipment at the site or premises. Gambling equipment owned by an organization may not be kept at a distributor’s office, warehouse, storage unit, or other place of the distributor’s business.
(e) An organization may transport gambling equipment it owns or possesses between approved gambling equipment storage sites and to and from licensed distributors, if the invoices or true and correct copies of the invoices for the organization’s acquisition of the gambling equipment accompany the gambling equipment at all times and are available for inspection.
(b) An organization may not pay rent for space for conducting lawful gambling from any account or fund other than the organization’s separate gambling account.
An organization may not enter into or be a party to a lending agreement under which any of the organization’s receipts from lawful gambling are pledged as collateral for a loan.
349.19. Records and reports
Subdivision 1. Required record of receipts.
Required record of receipts.
A licensed organization must keep a record of each occasion on which it conducts gambling, including each bingo occasion and each day on which other forms of lawful gambling are conducted. The record must include gross receipts, quantities of free plays if any, expenses, prizes, and gross profit. The board may by rule provide for the methods by which expenses are documented. In the case of bingo, gross receipts must be compared to the checkers’ records for the occasion by a person who did not sell cards for the occasion. Separate records must be kept for bingo and all other forms of lawful gambling.
(b) All expenditures for allowable expenses, taxes, and lawful purposes must be made from the separate account except (1) in the case of expenditures previously approved by the organization’s membership for emergencies as defined by board rule, (2) as provided in subdivision 2a, or (3) when restricted to one electronic fund transaction for the payment of taxes for the organization as a whole, the organization may transfer the amount of taxes related to the conduct of gambling to the general account at the time when due and payable.
(a) Each organization that receives a refund or credit under section 297E.02, subdivision 4, paragraph (d), must within four business days of receiving a refund under that paragraph deposit the refund in the organization’s gambling account.
(1) the name of the recipient of the expenditure or contribution; (2) the date the expenditure or contribution was approved by the organization; (3) the date, amount, and check number or electronic transfer confirmation number of the expenditure or contribution; (4) a brief description of how the expenditure or contribution meets one or more of the purposes in section 349.12, subdivision 25; and (5) in the case of expenditures authorized under section 349.12, subdivision 25, paragraph (a), clause (7), whether the expenditure is for a facility or activity that primarily benefits male or female participants.
(e) Expenditures of gross profits from lawful gambling for local, state, and federal taxes as identified in section 349.12, subdivision 25, paragraph (a), clause (8), may be transferred electronically from the organization’s gambling account directly to bank accounts identified by local, state, or federal agencies if the organization’s gambling account monthly bank statement specifically identifies the payee by name, the amount transferred, and the date of the transaction.
(f) Expenditures of gross profits from lawful gambling for payments for lawful purpose expenditures and allowable expenses may be transferred electronically from the organization’s gambling account directly to bank accounts identified by the vendor if the organization’s gambling account monthly bank statement specifically identifies the payee by name, the amount transferred, the account number of the account into which the funds were transferred, and the date of the transaction.
(g) Expenditures of gross profits from lawful gambling for payroll compensation to an employee’s account and for the payment of local, state, and federal withholding taxes may be transferred electronically to and from the account of a payroll processing firm provided that the firm:
(1) is currently registered with and meets the criteria of the Department of Revenue as a third-party bulk filer under section 290.92, subdivision 30; (2) is able to provide proof of a third-party audit and an annual report and statement of financial condition; (3) is able to provide evidence of a fidelity bond; and (4) can provide proof of having been in business as a third-party bulk filer for the most recent three years.
A licensed organization must report to the Department of Revenue and to its membership monthly, or quarterly in the case of a licensed organization which does not report more than $1,000 in gross receipts from lawful gambling in any calendar quarter, on its gross receipts, expenses, profits, and expenditure of profits from lawful gambling. The report must include a reconciliation of the organization’s profit carryover with its cash balance on hand. If the organization conducts both bingo and other forms of lawful gambling, the figures for both must be reported separately. The organization must report annually to its membership and annually file with the board a financial summary report in a format prescribed by the board that identifies the organization’s receipts and use of lawful gambling proceeds, including:
(1) gross receipts; (2) prizes paid; (3) allowable expenses; (4) lawful purpose expenditures, including annual totals for types of charitable contributions and all taxes and fees as per section 349.12, subdivision 25, paragraph (a), clauses (8) and (18); (5) the percentage of annual gross profits used for charitable contributions; and (6) the percentage of annual gross profits used for all taxes and fees as per section 349.12, subdivision 25, paragraph (a), clauses (8) and (18).
(a) The board shall by rule require a licensed organization to require each winner of a pull-tab prize of $50 or more to present identification in the form of a driver’s license, Minnesota identification card, or other identification the board deems sufficient to allow the identification and tracking of the winner. The rule must require the organization to retain winning pull-tabs of $50 or more, and the identification of the winner of the pull-tab, for 3-1/2 years.
(1) by rule adopt minimum technical standards for cash registers that may be used by organizations, and shall approve for use by organizations any cash register that meets the standards; and (2) before allowing an organization to use a cash register that commingles receipts from several different pull-tab games in play, adopt rules that define how cash registers may be used and that establish a procedure for organizations to reconcile all pull-tab games in play at the end of each month.
349.191 SALES ON CREDIT.
Subdivision 1.Credit restriction.
A manufacturer may not offer or extend to a distributor or linked bingo game provider, and a linked bingo game provider or a distributor may not offer or extend to an organization, credit for a period of more than 30 days for the sale or lease of any gambling equipment. No right of action exists for the collection of any claim based on credit prohibited by this subdivision. The 30-day period allowed by this subdivision begins with the day immediately following the day of invoice and includes all successive days, including Sundays and holidays, to and including the 30th successive day.
Subd. 1a.Credit and sales to delinquent organizations.
Subd. 1b.Credit and sales to delinquent distributors or linked bingo game providers.
Subd. 2.Invoices.
All invoices prepared by a manufacturer, distributor, or linked bingo game provider and presented as part of a credit transaction for the purchase of gambling equiptment must clearly bear the words “Notice: State Law Prohibits the Extension of Credit For This Sale or Lease For More Than 30 Days.”
Subd. 4.Credit; postdated checks.
For purposes of this section, “credit” includes acceptance by a manufacturer, distributor, or linked bingo game provider of a postdated check in payment for gambling equipment.
349.211. Prize limits
Subdivision 1. Bingo.
(1) no organization may contribute more than $300 per linked bingo game to a linked bingo prize pool; (2) no organization may award more than $200 for a linked bingo game consolation prize. For purposes of this subdivision, a linked bingo game consolation prize is a prize awarded by an organization after a prize from the linked bingo prize pool has been won; and (3) for a progressive linked bingo game, if no player declares a valid bingo within the predetermined amount of bingo numbers called, a portion of the prize is carried over to another occasion until the accumulated prize is won. The portion of the prize that is not carried over must be awarded to the first player or players who declares a valid bingo as additional numbers are called. If a valid bingo is declared within the predetermined amount of bingo numbers called, the entire prize pool for that game is awarded to the winner. The annual limit for progressive bingo game prizes contained in subdivision 2 must be reduced by the amount an organization contributes to progressive linked bingo games during the same calendar year.
(a) Merchandise prizes must be valued at their fair market value. For purposes of sections 349.11 to 349.22 “prizes” do not include free plays awarded.
349.2113. Prize payout limit
On or after January 1, 2004, a licensed organization may not put into play a pull-tab or tipboard deal that provides for a prize payout of greater than 85 percent of the ideal gross of the deal.
349.2123. Certified physical inventory
The board may, upon request, require a distributor to furnish a certified physical inventory of all gambling equipment in stock. The inventory must contain the information required by the board.
349.2124. Sales to Indian tribes
A distributor may set aside that part of the distributor’s stock necessary for the conduct of business in making sales to the established governing body of any Indian tribe recognized by the United States Department of Interior. A distributor shall, when shipping or delivering any stock to an Indian tribal organization, make a true duplicate invoice showing the complete details of the sale or delivery and shall keep the duplicate.
349.2125. Contraband
Subdivision 1. Contraband defined. The following are contraband:
(1) all pull-tab or tipboard deals or paddleticket cards not bar coded in accordance with this chapter or chapter 297E;
(2) all pull-tab or tipboard deals in the possession of any unlicensed person, firm, or organization;
(3) any container used for the storage and display of any contraband pull-tab or tipboard deals as defined in clauses (1) and (2);
(4) all currency, checks, and other things of value used for pull-tab or tipboard transactions not expressly permitted under this chapter, and any cash drawer, cash register, or any other container used for illegal pull-tab or tipboard transactions including its contents;
(5) any device including, but not limited to, motor vehicles, trailers, snowmobiles, airplanes, and boats used, with the knowledge of the owner or of a person operating with the consent of the owner, for the storage or transportation of more than five pull-tab or tipboard deals that are contraband under this subdivision. When pull-tabs and tipboards are being transported in the course of interstate commerce between locations outside this state, the pull-tab and tipboard deals are not contraband, notwithstanding the provisions of clauses (1) and (12);
(8) any altered, modified, or counterfeit pull-tab or tipboard ticket;
(12) any pull-tab or tipboard deal in the possession of a person other than a licensed distributor or licensed manufacturer for which the person, upon demand of a licensed peace officer or authorized agent of the commissioner of revenue or director of alcohol and gambling enforcement, does not immediately produce for inspection the invoice or a true and correct copy of the invoice for the acquisition of the deal from a licensed distributor;
(13) any pull-tab or tipboard deals or portions of deals on which the tax imposed under chapter 297E has not been paid; and
Subd. 2. Seizure. Property made contraband by subdivision 1 may be seized by the commissioner of revenue or the director of alcohol and gambling enforcement or their authorized agents or by any sheriff or other police officer, hereinafter referred to as the seizing authority, with or without process, and shall be subject to forfeiture as provided in subdivisions 3 and 4.
Subd. 3. Inventory; judicial determination; appeal; disposition of seized property. Within ten days after the seizure of any alleged contraband, the person making the seizure shall make available an inventory of the property seized to the person from whom the property was seized, if known, and file a copy with the commissioner of revenue or the director of alcohol and gambling enforcement. Within ten days after the date of service of the inventory, the person from whom the property was seized or any person claiming an interest in the property may file with the seizing authority a demand for judicial determination of whether the property was lawfully subject to seizure and forfeiture. Within 60 days after the date of filing of the demand, the seizing authority must bring an action in the district court of the county where seizure was made to determine the issue of forfeiture. The action must be brought in the name of the state and be prosecuted by the county attorney or by the attorney general. The court shall hear the action without a jury and determine the issues of fact and laws involved. When a judgment of forfeiture is entered, the seizing authority may, unless the judgment is stayed pending an appeal, either (1) cause the forfeited property to be destroyed; or (2) cause it to be sold at a public auction as provided by law.
Subd. 4. Disposal. (a) The property described in subdivision 1, clauses (4) and (5), must be confiscated after conviction of the person from whom it was seized, upon compliance with the following procedure: the seizing authority shall file with the court a separate complaint against the property, describing it and charging its use in the specific violation, and specifying substantially the time and place of the unlawful use. A copy of the complaint must be served upon the defendant or person in charge of the property at the time of seizure, if any. If the person arrested is acquitted, the court shall dismiss the complaint against the property and order it returned to the persons legally entitled to it. Upon conviction of the person arrested, the court shall issue an order directed to any person known or believed to have any right, title or interest in, or lien upon, any of the property, and to persons unknown claiming any right, title, interest, or lien in it, describing the property and (1) stating that it was seized and that a complaint against it, charging the specified violation, has been filed with the court, (2) requiring the persons to file with the court administrator their answer to the complaint, setting forth any claim they may have to any right or title to, interest in, or lien upon the property, within 30 days after the service of the order, and (3) notifying them in substance that if they fail to file their answer within the time, the property will be ordered sold by the seizing authority. The court shall cause the order to be served upon any person known or believed to have any right, title, interest, or lien as in the case of a summons in a civil action, and upon unknown persons by publication, as provided for service of summons in a civil action. If no answer is filed within the time prescribed, the court shall, upon affidavit by the court administrator, setting forth the fact, order the property sold by the seizing authority. Seventy percent of the proceeds of the sale of forfeited property, after payment of seizure, storage, forfeiture and sale expenses, must be forwarded to the seizing authority for deposit as a supplement to its operating fund or similar fund for official use, and 20 percent must be forwarded to the county attorney or other prosecuting agency that handled the forfeiture for deposit as a supplement to its operating fund or similar fund for prosecutorial purposes. The remaining ten percent of the proceeds must be forwarded within 60 days after resolution of the forfeiture to the department of human services to fund programs for the treatment of compulsive gamblers. If answer is filed within the time provided, the court shall fix a time for a hearing, which shall be not less than ten nor more than 30 days after the time for filing answer expires. At the time fixed for hearing, unless continued for cause, the matter shall be heard and determined by the court, without a jury, as in other civil actions.
349.2127 PROHIBITIONS.
Subdivision 1.Counterfeiting.
A person is guilty of a felony who, with intent to defraud the state, makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any license or stamp provided for in this chapter, or has in possession any forged, spurious, or altered stamps, with the intent, or with the result of, depriving the state of the tax imposed by chapter 297E.
Subd. 2.Prohibition against possession.
(a) A person is guilty of a crime who sells, offers for sale, or possesses a pull-tab or tipboard deal or paddle ticket cards not stamped or bar coded in accordance with the provisions of this chapter or chapter 297E. A violation of this paragraph is a gross misdemeanor if it involves ten or fewer pull-tab or tipboard deals. A violation of this paragraph is a felony if it involves more than ten pull-tab or tipboard deals, or a combination of more than ten deals of pull-tabs and tipboards.
(b) A person, other than a licensed manufacturer, a licensed distributor, or an organization licensed or exempt or excluded from licensing under this chapter, is guilty of a crime who sells, offers to sell, or possesses gambling equipment. A violation of this paragraph is a gross misdemeanor if it involves ten or fewer pull-tab or tipboard deals. A violation of this paragraph is a felony if it involves more than ten pull-tab or tipboard deals, or a combination of more than ten deals of pull-tabs and tipboards.
(c) A person is guilty of a crime who alters, modifies, or counterfeits pull-tabs, tipboards, or tipboard tickets, or possesses altered, modified, or counterfeit pull-tabs, tipboards, or tipboard tickets. A violation of this paragraph is a gross misdemeanor if the total face value for all such pull-tabs, tipboards, or tipboard tickets does not exceed $200. A violation of this paragraph is a felony if the total face value exceeds $200. For purposes of this paragraph, the face value of all pull-tabs, tipboards, and tipboard tickets altered, modified, or counterfeited within a six-month period may be aggregated and the defendant charged accordingly.
(d) A person, other than a licensed distributor or licensed manufacturer, is guilty of a crime who possesses a pull-tab or tipboard deal for which the person, upon demand of a licensed peace officer or authorized agent of the commissioner of revenue or director of alcohol and gambling enforcement, does not immediately produce for inspection the invoice or a true and correct copy of the invoice for the acquisition of the deal from a licensed distributor. A violation of this paragraph is a gross misdemeanor if it involves ten or fewer pull-tab or tipboard deals. A violation of this paragraph is a felony if it involves more than ten pull-tab or tipboard deals, or a combination of more than ten deals of pull-tabs and tipboards. This paragraph does not apply to pull-tab and tipboard deals being transported in interstate commerce between locations outside this state.
A person is guilty of a felony who:
(1) knowingly submits materially false information in any license application or other document or communication submitted to the board; (2) knowingly places materially false information on a pull-tab or tipboard deal invoice or a copy of the invoice; or (3) knowingly presents to a licensed peace officer or authorized agent of the commissioner of revenue or director of alcohol and gambling enforcement a pull-tab or tipboard deal invoice, or a copy of the invoice, that contains materially false information.
Subd. 4.Transporting unstamped deals.
A person is guilty of a gross misdemeanor who transports into, causes to be transported into, receives, carries, moves from place to place, or causes to be moved from place to place in this state, any paddle ticket cards or deals of pull-tabs or tipboards not stamped or bar coded in accordance with this chapter or chapter 297E except in the course of interstate commerce between locations outside this state. A person is guilty of a felony who violates this subdivision with respect to more than ten pull-tab or tipboard deals, or a combination of more than ten deals of pull-tabs and tipboards.
Subd. 5.Providing information.
(a) An employee of an organization may not provide any information to a player that would provide an unfair advantage to the player related to the potential winnings of any lawful gambling activity.
(b) An employee may not provide, and a person may not receive, with expectation of pecuniary gain to either, any information that would provide an unfair advantage to the recipient of the information related to the potential winnings of any lawful gambling activity. A person who violates this paragraph is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. A person who violates this paragraph within five years after a previous conviction under this paragraph is guilty of a felony.
(c) For purposes of this subdivision, “employee” includes a volunteer.
Subd. 6.Unlawful expenditures.
(a) A person who knowingly or with reason to know makes an unlawful expenditure of gross profits from lawful gambling is guilty of a crime and may be sentenced as provided in this subdivision.
(b) If the unlawful expenditure is of $200 or less, the penalty in section 349.22, subdivision 1, applies.
(c) If the unlawful expenditure is of more than $200 but not more than $2,500, the person is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
(d) If the unlawful expenditure is of more than $2,500, the person is guilty of a felony.
(e) For purposes of this subdivision, expenditures made within a six-month period may be aggregated and the defendant charged accordingly.
Subd. 7.Checks for gambling purchases.
An organization may not accept checks or debit cards in payment for the purchase of any gambling equipment or for the chance to participate in any form of lawful gambling except a raffle. If an organization accepts a check or debit card, the payment of which is subsequently dishonored, the organization shall reimburse its gambling account for the amount of the dishonored payment within 30 days of receiving notice of the dishonor. This subdivision does not apply to gaming activities conducted pursuant to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, United States Code, title 25, section 2701 et seq.
Subd. 9.Tipboard defined.
For purposes of this section “tipboard” includes tipboards as defined in section 349.12, subdivision 34, and any board, placard or other device marked off in a grid or columns, in which each section contains a hidden number or numbers, or other symbol, which determines the winning chances.
349.12, subdivision 34, and any board, placard or other device marked off in a grid or columns, in which each section contains a hidden number or numbers, or other symbol, which determines the winning chances.
349.213 LOCAL AUTHORITY.
Subdivision 1.Local regulation.
(a) A statutory or home rule city or county has the authority to adopt more stringent regulation of lawful gambling within its jurisdiction, including the prohibition of lawful gambling.
(1) as authorized under section 349.16, subdivision 8, or 297E.02; or (2) by an ordinance requirement that such organizations must contribute ten percent per year of their net profits derived from lawful gambling conducted at premises within the city’s or county’s jurisdiction to a fund administered and regulated by the responsible local unit of government without cost to such fund. The funds must be disbursed by the local unit of government for (i) charitable contributions as defined in section 349.12, subdivision 7a, or (ii) police, fire, and other emergency or public safety-related services, equipment, and training, excluding pension obligations. A contribution made by an organization is not considered an expenditure to the city or county nor a tax under section 297E.02, and is valid and lawful. A city or county receiving and making expenditures authorized under this clause must by March 15 of each year file a report with the board, on a form the board prescribes, that lists all such revenues collected, interest received on fund balances, and expenditures for the previous calendar year.
(g) A statutory or home rule city or county may by ordinance require that a licensed organization conducting lawful gambling within its jurisdiction expend all or a portion of its expenditures for lawful purposes on lawful purposes conducted or located within the city’s or county’s trade area. Such an ordinance must be limited to lawful purpose expenditures of gross profits derived from lawful gambling conducted at premises within the city’s or county’s jurisdiction, must define the city’s or county’s trade area, and must specify the percentage of lawful purpose expenditures which must be expended within the trade area. A trade area defined by a city under this subdivision must include each city and township contiguous to the defining city.
(h) A more stringent regulation or prohibition of lawful gambling adopted by a political subdivision under this subdivision must apply equally to all forms of lawful gambling within the jurisdiction of the political subdivision, except a political subdivision may prohibit the use of paddlewheels.
Subd. 2.Local approval.
The board may not issue an initial premises permit unless approval is received from:
(1) the city council of the statutory or home rule city in which the organization’s premises is located; or (2) the county board of the county where the premises is located.
Subd. 3.Local gambling tax.
A statutory or home rule charter city that has one or more licensed organizations operating lawful gambling, and a county that has one or more licensed organizations outside incorporated areas operating lawful gambling, may impose a local gambling tax on each licensed organization within the city’s or county’s jurisdiction. The tax may be imposed only if the amount to be received by the city or county is necessary to cover the costs incurred by the city or county to regulate lawful gambling. The tax imposed by this subdivision may not exceed three percent per year of the gross receipts of a licensed organization from all lawful gambling less prizes actually paid out by the organization. A city or county may not use money collected under this subdivision for any purpose other than to regulate lawful gambling. All documents pertaining to site inspections, fines, penalties, or other corrective action involving local lawful gambling regulation must be shared with the board within 30 days of filing at the city or county of jurisdiction. A tax imposed under this subdivision is in lieu of all other local taxes and local investigation fees on lawful gambling. A city or county that imposes a tax under this subdivision shall annually, by March 15, file a report with the board in a form prescribed by the board showing (1) the amount of revenue produced by the tax during the preceding calendar year, and (2) the use of the proceeds of the tax.
349.22. Penalty
Subdivision 1. Penalty. (a) A person who violates any provision of sections 349.11 to 349.23 for which another penalty is not provided is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Subd. 2. Other action. This section does not preclude civil or criminal actions under other applicable law or preclude any agency of government from investigating or prosecuting violations of the provisions of sections 349.11 to 349.213, and chapter 297E. County attorneys and the attorney general have joint responsibility for prosecuting violations of sections 349.11 to 349.213, and chapter 297E, and the attorney general may prosecute any violation of those sections. If the county attorney fails to initiate the prosecution within 30 days, the attorney general may initiate prosecution.
Subd. 3. Repealed by Laws 1990, c. 590, art. 2, § 18, eff. August 1, 1990.
Subd. 3a. Aggregation. When the value of prizes or pull-tabs received within a six-month period is aggregated under this section and two or more offenses were committed by the same person in two or more counties, the accused may be prosecuted in any county in which one of the offenses was committed for all of the offenses aggregated under this section.
Subd. 4. Sales after revocation. A person selling pull-tabs or tipboards after the person’s license or permit has been revoked is guilty of a felony.
349.23. Validity of prior agreements
Nothing in sections 349.11 to 349.22 shall be construed to affect the validity of any agreement or contract between an organization and any financial or lending institution, entered into prior to August 1, 1976.
609B.170. Lawful gambling and gambling devices licenses; disqualifications
(a) Under section 349.155, in the case of licenses for manufacturers, distributors, distributor salespersons, linked bingo game providers, and gambling managers, the Gambling Control Board may not issue or renew a license under chapter 349, and shall revoke a license under chapter 349, if the applicant or licensee, or a director, officer, partner, governor, or person in a supervisory or management position of the applicant or licensee has been convicted of:
(1) a felony or a crime involving gambling;
(2) assault;
(3) a criminal violation involving the use of a firearm; or
(4) making terroristic threats.
(b) Under section 349.155, in the case of licenses for organizations, the Gambling Control Board may not issue or renew a license under chapter 349, and shall revoke a license under chapter 349, if the organization or an officer or member of the governing body of the organization has been convicted of:
(1) a felony or gross misdemeanor involving theft or fraud; or
(2) a crime involving gambling.