North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 10 - Attorney General › Article 10-16 - Multi-State Lottery › Chapter 10-16-03 - Conduct and Play › Section 10-16-03-07 - Validation of a ticket or cash voucher

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
1.
				A retailer shall use a terminal to validate a ticket or cash voucher before the
				retailer may pay a prize on the ticket or cash voucher. A retailer that pays a
				player a prize without first validating the ticket or cash voucher assumes the
				financial risk that the ticket is not an actual winning ticket , the ticket was
				previously redeemed, or that the cash voucher was previously redeemed. The
				lottery may not reimburse a retailer for a prize paid in error by the retailer.
				A ticket that does not pass validation is invalid and ineligible for a prize. A
				cash voucher that does not pass validation is invalid for cashing. Except as
				provided by subsection 18 of section
				10-16-03-08, an original ticket is
				the only proof of a game play and submitting a winning ticket to the retailer
				or lottery is the only method of claiming a prize. A play slip , copy of a
				winning ticket or copy of a cash voucher has no monetary or prize value and is
				not evidence of a ticket bought or of numbers selected for a draw. A ticket
				must have been bought from a North Dakota retailer and meet all of these
				validation requirements:
a. A retailer must
				have issued the ticket in an authorized manner;
b. The play, including the combination of
				numbers, letters, or symbols selected by a player or quick picked, evidenced by
				the ticket, must reach and be accepted and recorded by the lottery's online
				gaming system before the cutoff time for a draw. The draw for a game is held on
				the days determined by the game group. Even if a player intends for a retailer
				to enter the player's play before the cutoff time for the present draw, the
				play is only eligible for the draw that is printed on the ticket;
c. The ticket or cash voucher must not have
				been previously paid or voided by the lottery;
d. The ticket or cash voucher must not have
				been stolen, or be counterfeit, altered, mutilated, reconstructed, unreadable,
				illegible, irregular, partly blank, incomplete, defective, or an exact
				duplicate of another winning ticket. The game group, MUSL, and lottery are not
				responsible for a ticket that is altered in any manner;
e. A ticket or cash voucher is void unless
				the ticket is printed on a paper stock roll that was validly issued to and used
				by the retailer that sold the ticket;
f. The ticket or cash voucher validation
				number must be legible, intact, presented in its entirety, and correspond,
				based on the lottery's computer validation file, exactly to the date and
				selected numbers printed on the apparent winning ticket that was sold at a
				specific site;
g. The ticket or
				cash voucher may not be marked in any way, except by a player to place a
				signature on the back side of the ticket to claim a prize or by a retailer to
				deface or void the ticket after it was redeemed, with the intent to commit
				fraud;
h. If the total prize value
				of all plays of a winning ticket is five thousand dollars or more, the ticket
				must pass a confidential security check by the lottery;
i. Upon request by the lottery, a claimant of
				an apparent winning ticket shall disclose to the lottery the name of the
				retailer from whom the claimant bought the ticket, date of purchase, and
				approximate time; and
j. A
				validation requirement adopted by the MUSL or game group.