North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 99 - State Gaming Commission › Article 99-01.3 - Games of Chance › Chapter 99-01.3-10 - Calcuttas › Section 99-01.3-10-01 - Calcutta

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
A "calcutta" is a sporting event in which players wager at an
				  auction on the competitors. A sporting event is a competitive sport involving
				  physical skill or endurance and scores a person's physical ability. The conduct
				  of a calcutta is the auction process. An auction pool is comprised of the
				  wagers paid by players who offered the highest bids on the competitors. The
				  auction pool is distributed to the player who wagered on the winning
				  competitor. The winning competitor may be one competitor, a team of
				  competitors, or ranked competitors. A competitor may not be an animal and
				  wagers may not be placed on animals. The payout of the cash prize to a winning
				  player is based on a predetermined percentage of the auction pool, which may
				  not exceed ninety percent. Only cash prizes may be awarded.
1. A calcutta may only be conducted for a
				professional or amateur sporting event held in North Dakota, but not for an
				elementary, secondary, or postsecondary education sporting event. An
				organization may conduct more than one calcutta on the same sporting event.
				More than one organization may independently conduct a calcutta on the same
				event.
2. An organization shall
				acquire a calcutta board from a distributor and complete on it the sporting
				event, date of the sports event, and manner of distributing the auction pool as
				a prize. The requirements of the players must be posted or made available to
				the players on the site.
3. Each
				competitor in a sporting event shall be identified before the auction begins. A
				competitor may also be a player who may wager on oneself. A competitor may
				wager on another competitor.
4.
				Each competitor shall be eighteen years of age or older to be eligible to be
				listed on a calcutta board. Each eligible competitor shall be offered through
				an auction to prospective players. An organization may require that all
				eligible competitors be bid on and may set a minimum bid. A player who offers
				the highest bid for a competitor by a verbal, sealed, or open bid wagers on
				that competitor. A player may wager any amount and buy more than one
				competitor. A competitor may be auctioned off only to one player. An
				organization may not bid on a competitor.
5. An open bid enables a potential player,
				during a certain time, to write the player's name and bid for a competitor on a
				register assigned that competitor. Each successive potential player interested
				in that competitor shall write the player's name and bid, of an amount higher
				than the previous bid, on the register. When the time period ends, the last
				player listed on the register wagers the amount bid on that
				competitor.
6. An organization
				shall conduct an auction at its site that may be where the sporting event is
				held. A player shall be present to bid.
7. Before an auction, an employee shall:
a. Verbally announce the predetermined
				percentages of the auction pool that will be paid to a winning player and
				retained by an organization. The amount a player may win depends on the total
				amount of the auction pool and not on any odds; and
b. Complete for each line on a board a
				sequential number starting with the number one and a name of a
				competitor.