23.0929.01000
Sixty-eighth
Legislative Assembly SENATE BILL NO. 2245
of North Dakota
Introduced by
Senator Luick
1 A BILL for an Act to amend and reenact subsection 13 of section 53-06.1-01, subsection 3 of
2 section 53-06.1-10.1, and subsection 5 of section 53-06.1-11 of the North Dakota Century
3 Code, relating to a manufacturer of an electronic device, electronic fifty-fifty raffle tickets, and
4 monthly rent for electronic pull tab devices.
5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
6 SECTION 1. AMENDMENT. Subsection 13 of section 53-06.1-01 of the North Dakota
7 Century Code is amended and reenacted as follows:
8 13. "Manufacturer" means, for a pull tab or bingo card, a person who designs, prints,
9 assembles, or produces the product. For a pull tab dispensing device, electronic pull
10 tab device operating system, bingo card marking device, or a fifty-fiftyelectronic raffle
11 system, a manufacturer means the person who directly controls and manages
12 development of and owns the rights to the proprietary software encoded on a
13 processing chip that enables the device or system to operate.
14 SECTION 2. AMENDMENT. Subsection 3 of section 53-06.1-10.1 of the North Dakota
15 Century Code is amended and reenacted as follows:
16 3. An organization permitted to conduct raffles in this state may conduct aan electronic
17 fifty-fifty raffle either by manual drawing or by using a random number generator.
18 Fifty-fiftyElectronic fifty-fifty raffle tickets must be sold and drawings held onsite at the
19 location of and on the date of the event. Fifty-fiftyElectronic fifty-fifty raffles may not be
20 conducted online over the internet.
21 SECTION 3. AMENDMENT. Subsection 5 of section 53-06.1-11 of the North Dakota
22 Century Code is amended and reenacted as follows:
23 5. For a site where bingo is not the primary game:
Page No. 1 23.0929.01000
 Sixty-eighth
Legislative Assembly
1 a. If twenty-one or paddlewheels is conducted, the monthly rent may not exceed
2 two hundred dollars multiplied by the necessary number of tables based on
3 criteria prescribed by gaming rule. For each twenty-one table with a wager
4 greater than five dollars, an additional amount up to one hundred dollars may be
5 added to the monthly rent. If pull tabs is also conducted involving only a jar bar,
6 the monthly rent for pull tabs may not exceed an additional one hundred
7 seventy-five dollars. If pull tabs is conducted involving only a dispensing device
8 or a jar bar and dispensing device, the monthly rent for pull tabs may not exceed
9 an additional three hundred twenty-five dollars.
10 b. If twenty-one and paddlewheels are not conducted but pull tabs is conducted
11 involving either a jar bar or dispensing device, the monthly rent may not exceed
12 four hundred dollars.
13 c. If pull tabs is conducted using one or more electronic pull tab devices, the
14 monthly rent may not exceed an additional one hundred dollars per machine for
15 the first five machines in the same venue. For each additional machine in the
16 same venue beyond five, the monthly rent may not exceed an additional fifty
17 dollars per machine up to a maximum of one thousand oneseven hundred
18 twenty-fivefifty dollars per month for all electronic pull tab devices in a single
19 venue.
Page No. 2 23.0929.01000


Statutes affected:
INTRODUCED: 53-06.1-01, 53-06.1-10.1, 53-06.1-11
Prepared by the Legislative Council staff for Representative Grueneich: 53-06.1-11