North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 99 - State Gaming Commission › Article 99-01.3 - Games of Chance › Chapter 99-01.3-16 - Manufacturers › Section 99-01.3-16-08 - Manufacturing specifications - Dispensing device

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
A pull tab dispensing device must meet these
				  specifications:
1. If a device is
				designed to accommodate two or more different games of pull tabs, each
				compartment must independently meet the specifications of this
				section;
2. Electrical and
				mechanical components and design principles may not subject a person to any
				physical hazard or cause electrical interference. The power cord must be ten
				feet in length and have a three-prong ground. A surge protector or in-line
				power filter must be installed in-line on the main power line to a device. A
				device must safely and operatively withstand a static test of twenty thousand
				volts of electricity and maintain proper voltage during a low electrical
				current (brownout);
3. A pull tab
				device must have at least four columns for stacking pull tabs and have capacity
				for two thousand four hundred pull tabs. A dispensing device for prize board
				tickets may have less than four columns for stacking pull tabs;
4. A stacking column must be adjustable for
				varying lengths of pull tabs. However, as an option, a device may use
				replaceable stacking columns that accommodate varying lengths of pull tabs. The
				device must accommodate a minimum pull tab size of one and seven-eighths inches
				in width by two and five-eighths inches n length, a maximum pull tab size of
				one and seven-eighths inches in width by four and one-fourth inches in length,
				or both sizes;
5. A device must be
				adjustable for varying thicknesses of pull tabs;
6. Glass must be placed in the front of the
				device enabling an employee to see whether a device is low on pull
				tabs;
7. A device must have a
				dispensing outlet or tray to catch a dispensed pull tab;
8. A device must have one currency validator.
				A coin acceptor is not allowed;
9.
				A pull tab device must accommodate pricing of twenty-five cents, fifty cents,
				one dollar, and two dollars per pull tab and dispense the correct number of
				pull tabs based on the amount of credit played. The standard price per pull tab
				must apply to all columns;
10. An
				exterior door must have at least one keyed lock. The key must be different from
				all other keys used on other devices manufactured by the
				manufacturer;
11. A pull tab device
				may have an optional "all" player button that activates the device to dispense
				pull tabs equal to the value of the unplayed credits and randomly selected by a
				random number generator or player button sequencing concept. Devices that
				dispense pull tabs involving a prize board are not required to select tickets
				by use of a random number generator;
12. A device must have an interior mode
				switch, interior dipswitch, or an exterior mode switch activated by a key which
				enables a person to:
a. Set the price per pull
				tab; and
b. Unless a device prints
				reports prescribed by subsection 15, access the accounting information required
				by subsection 13 and, if the device has nonresettable electronic accounting
				meters, subsection 14;