North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 99 - State Gaming Commission › Article 99-01.3 - Games of Chance › Chapter 99-01.3-04 - Bingo › Section 99-01.3-04-03 - Conduct and play

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
1. The following
				rules, information, and policies must be posted or made available to players in
				the area where bingo activity is conducted. If made available to players, the
				rules, information, and policies must be in the form of a handout that is
				easily visible to the players and may not be a copy of the gaming law and
				rules:
a. A person may not separate a paper
				card when there are two or more faces on a sheet;
b. A person under eighteen years of age may
				not play bingo unless an individual, eighteen years of age or older,
				accompanies a minor when buying a bingo card or package and throughout the
				session. The adult may not be an employee on duty. This rule does not apply if
				a person under twenty-one years of age is not allowed on the site or an
				organization has a permit or prize structure that does not exceed the limit of
				a permit;
c. If an organization
				does not restrict duplicate paper cards from being in play for a game, it shall
				post or make available that information to all players before their purchase of
				cards or packages;
d. The actual
				letter and number on a ball drawn or freely awarded is official;
e. If a person knowingly uses a fraudulent
				scheme or technique to cheat or skim involving bingo, regardless of the amount
				gained, the offense is a class C felony punishable by a five thousand dollar
				fine or five years in jail or both;
f. A bingo card is void if it is taken
				outside the gaming area;
g. If a
				player attempts to falsify or falsifies a record of win, the prize is
				forfeited;
h. If a player receives
				a partial bingo cash prize the day of the bingo session, the remaining bingo
				cash prize must be made available or postmarked to the winning player within
				seven calendar days;
i. A policy of
				when an organization may cancel a bingo session;
j. A policy that if a player has more than
				one bingo on one card or on two or more cards for a game, whether it is
				considered as one bingo or more than one bingo for splitting a prize with
				another winning player;
k. A policy
				that a bingo is timely called by a player when, on the last number called, the
				player calls the word "bingo" or other required word before the bingo caller
				announces the whole letter and number of the next ball to be called, or other
				policy;
l. A policy on sharing a
				prize by two or more winning players on identically or differently priced
				cards. A policy must include the following except that an organization may
				award a minimum prize:
(1) If a prize is cash
				and all winning players bingo on identically priced cards, the cash prize must
				be divided equally. An organization may round fractional dollars.
(2) If a prize is cash and the winning
				players bingo on differently priced cards, an organization shall award each
				winning player:
(a) The designated
				prize;
(b) An equal share of the
				designated prize; or
(c) A
				proportional part of the designated prize for that card or any other fair
				method. The proportional part is the ratio that each winning player is in
				relation to the total number of winning players. To illustrate, if three
				players bingo on differently priced cards, each player is to be awarded
				one-third of the designated prize for that player's card.
(3) If a prize is merchandise and it cannot
				be divided, an organization shall do one of these options which must be
				disclosed in the bingo program or promotional material or announced before the
				bingo session:
(a) Award each winning player a
				substitute merchandise prize, which must be of equal value, and the total value
				of all substitute merchandise prizes awarded must at least total the retail
				price of the original prize. A merchandise prize may be redeemable or
				convertible into cash at an organization's option;
(b) Award a certain cash split amount that
				totals the retail price of the original prize; or
(c) Conduct a continuous or separate playoff
				game between the winning players;
m. A policy that a player may or may not use
				a bingo card marking device and play additional paper bingo cards at the same
				time; and
n. A policy that a player
				may or may not share the player's bingo package with another player.