N.D. Admin. Code 99-01.3-08-02

Current through Supplement No. 394, October, 2024

Section 99-01.3-08-02 - Table, drop box, cards, and dealing shoe

1. If there is more than one table at a site, a table must have a number. A table playing surface must be green and may not contain imprinted graphics, excluding the tip betting spaces, unless authorized by the attorney general. A table playing surface must display no more than seven separate betting spaces and these or equivalent statements:

BLACKJACK PAYS 3 TO 2

and

DEALER MUST STAND ON 17 AND MUST DRAW TO 16

If a site allows the dealer to take a hit card when the dealer has a soft seventeen:

BLACKJACK PAYS 3 TO 2

and

DEALER MUST HIT SOFT 17

2. A table must have a drop box that meets the specification of subsection 5 of section 99-01.3-15-02. If there is more than one table at a site, a drop box must have a number matching the table number. A drop box must have a money plunger which must remain in the slot unless the plunger is used to insert currency or forms.

3. The cards must be four, six, or eight decks and be dealt from a dealing shoe located at a dealer's left. The cards must be the same size, shape, design, and be jumbo-faced. Red or maroon and black playing cards must be used. However, if a mechanical or electronic hole card reader is used on a table, cards that are not jumbo-faced may be used provided that the organization has received approval from the attorney general. Approval must be based on the attorney general's evaluation of the clarity of the cards on a recorded video of activity for the table. The color of the backs of all decks must be one predominate color, or one-half of the number of decks must be one predominate color and the other decks a different predominate color. The design on the back of each card must be identical.

4. A dealing shoe must hold four or more complete decks of playing cards.

N.D. Admin Code 99-01.3-08-02

Effective May 1, 1998; amended effective July 1, 2000; July 1, 2002; October 1, 2006; July 1, 2010.

Amended by Administrative Rules Supplement 2022-387, January 2023, effective 1/1/2023.

General Authority: NDCC 53-06.1-01.1

Law Implemented: NDCC 53-06.1-01.1