N.D. Admin. Code 99-01.3-16-09.4

Current through Supplement No. 395, January, 2025

Section 99-01.3-16-09.4 - Manufacturing specifications - Electronic quick shot bingo site operating systems with card-marking devices

An electronic quick shot bingo site operating system with card-marking devices and related equipment used in the conduct of electronic quick shot bingo according to chapter 99-01.3-04.1 must meet these specifications:

1. The card-marking device must not display any other graphic representations other than the game of bingo, except for advertising. The card-marking device must not accept cash, currency, or tokens for play. The card-marking device must be rendered unplayable if communications from the electronic quick shot bingo site operating system are lost.

2. The card-marking device must display:

a. The player's credit balance;

b. The player's wins balance;

c. The current bet amount;

d. The denomination being played;

e. All possible winning patterns, or be made available as a menu item;

f. The amount won for the last completed game until the next game starts;

g. The player options selected, including amount and number of cards purchased, for the last completed game until the next game starts or a new selection is made; and

h. The phrase "malfunction voids all pays and plays" on the game selection screen, game screen, or on a decal affixed to the front of the device.

3. A card-marking device must be a portable hand-held unit and cannot be wired directly to a site operating system.

4. A card-marking device can only be used at the site where the electronic quick shot bingo site operating system is located and only used to play electronic quick shot bingo or to purchase and play bingo cards.

5. No card-marking device can allow more than sixteen single-faced cards per game. The cost per play cannot exceed five dollars per card.

6. Each card must have a unique series (card) number which will have an unduplicated face.

7. Electronic cards must contain a five-by-five grid of space and must contain one square labeled "free" space. A bingo number cannot be repeated in more than one square on the same card. The same series (card) number may not appear more than once on each game.

8. A card-marking device can display a player's best card or a winning card and alert the player through an audio or video method, or both, that the player has a winning card.

9. When a number is covered, the covering must be indicated on the electronic card by a change in the color of the space or some other readily apparent visual means.

10. A card-marking device must use a radio frequency or Wi-Fi transmission to automatically daub the bingo numbers called.

11. "Electronic quick shot bingo site operating system" means computer hardware, software, and peripheral equipment, that is located at the bingo premise, is operated by the organization conducting bingo, and interfaces with, connects with, controls, or defines the operational parameters of the card-marking devices. Electronic quick shot bingo site operating systems must include the following: central database service, portable hand-held card-marking devices, point of sale, required printers, remote access capability, proprietary executable software, report generation software, and an accounting system and database. Player accounts are established on the site operating system's central database server and are accessed by a player with a hand-held card-marking device. Server-based accounts must be assigned a minimum five digit randomly selected account number, which cannot be reused during a business day. Transaction numbers must be assigned to all transactions, including sales, voids, redemptions, plays, and wins. Transaction numbers must be a minimum six digit nonresettable consecutive number, which do not reset at the end of each session. An account or card-marking device can only be used for the purchase and play of bingo cards.

12. An electronic quick shot bingo site operating system must account for and provide accounting information on all activity for three years from the end of the quarter in which the activity occurred. It must:

a. For each session, archive all electronic transactions of sales, voids, redemptions, plays, wins, balls called, winning bingo patterns, and the winning cards for prizes greater than five hundred dollars;

b. Include a printer with a paper-sensing device that upon sensing a "paper low" condition will allow the system to finish printing the receipt and then prevent further receipt writing. Each system must recognize a printer power loss occurrence and cease transactions until power has been restored to the printer and the system is capable of producing a valid receipt;

c. Be remote-accessible by the manufacturer of the system and attorney general for monitoring the system operation and accounting information in real time;

d. Not allow date, time, credit balance, or other source information to be changed;

e. Not allow automatic transfer, by a player or employee, of any winnings balance to the credit (deposit) balance on a card-marking device;

f. Account for each session with a nonresettable electronic consecutive session number;

g. Account for each transaction on the system with a nonresettable electronic consecutive receipt number at least six digits in length;

h. Be capable of printing an electronic card image of any card; and

i. Issue a receipt for each cashier transaction containing:

(1) Name of a site and organization;

(2) Receipt number;

(3) Date and time of the transaction;

(4) Account number;

(5) Dollar value of credits purchased;

(6) Dollar value of credits cashed out;

(7) Dollar value of winnings cashed out; and

(8) Dollar value of credit balanced.

j. Print a summary report for each session containing:

(1) Name of site and organization;

(2) Date of the session;

(3) Session number;

(4) Date and time of the report;

(5) Total number of accounts established;

(6) Total number of transactions;

(7) Range of transaction numbers;

(8) Total number and dollar value of voided transactions;

(9) Total dollar value of credits sold;

(10) Total dollar value of unplayed credits cashed out;

(11) Total gross proceeds;

(12) Total prizes won;

(13) Total unclaimed prizes;

(14) Total prizes paid; and

(15) Adjusted gross proceeds

k. Have the ability to print a transaction report for each session which includes for each transaction:

(1) Transaction number;

(2) Time of transaction;

(3) Type of transaction (sale, redemption, void, plays, or wins);

(4) Account number;

(5) Receipt number(s);

(6) For voided transactions, dollar value of the void;

(7) Dollar value of credit amount;

(8) Wagered amount;

(9) Wins amount;

(10) Redemption amount;

(11) Bonus accrual amount, if applicable; and

(12) User ID of employee conducting transaction.

l. Print a report of single prizes exceeding five hundred dollars, including:

(1) Date of the session;

(2) Session number;

(3) Account number;

(4) Winning series (card) number; and

(5) Prize amount.

m. Print a report of the bingo balls entered or numbers generated for each session, including bonus balls or numbers, which includes:

(1) Date of the session;

(2) Session number;

(3) Time entered or generated; and

(4) User ID of employee conducting transaction.

n. The electronic quick shot bingo site operating system must be capable of producing and exporting through electronic means (e.g. comma delimited, excel, etc.) all required reports.

13. All server-based accounts must be closed at the end of each bingo session. An account cannot be carried forward to another session or reused after a player has turned in a card-marking device.

14. All communications between the card-marking devices and the site operating system must be encrypted for security reasons. The wireless deployment must employ a secure gateway to isolate the wireless environment from any other environment. The secure gateway must be configured in a manner that prevents any wireless network component from gaining access to the internal network without first being scrutinized.

15. Electrical and mechanical components and design principles of the system may not subject a person to any physical hazard or cause electrical interference.

16. A surge protector that feeds all power to the equipment must be installed to ensure the equipment must not be adversely affected by surges or dips of plus or minus twenty percent of the supply voltage.

17. A battery backup must be installed on the electronic quick shot bingo site operating system and must be capable of maintaining the accuracy of all information required by this section for ninety days after power is discontinued from the system.

18. The operation of the electronic quick shot bingo site operating system must be impervious to influences from the outside of the system, including electromagnetic interference, electrostatic interference, and radio frequency interference.

19. The electronic quick shot bingo site operating system must not have any switches, jumpers, wire posts, or other means of manipulation that could affect the operation or outcome of a game.

20. Logical access to the electronic quick shot bingo site operating system must be restricted by user identifications and passwords.

21. A manufacturer of an electronic quick shot bingo site operating system shall employ sufficient security safeguards in designing and manufacturing the system such that it may be verified that all proprietary software components are authentic copies of the approved software components and all functioning components of the system are operating with identical copies of approved software programs. The card-marking devices must also have sufficient security safeguards so that any approved proprietary software are protected from alteration by unauthorized personnel. Security measures that may be employed to comply with these provisions are the use of dongles, digital signature comparison hardware and software, secure boot loaders, encryption, and password systems.

22. An electronic quick shot bingo site operating system may not have a mechanism whereby an error will cause the game data to automatically clear. Game data must be maintained at all times regardless of whether the system is being supplied with power. Game data must be stored in such a way as to prevent loss of the data when replacing parts or modules during normal maintenance.

23. The electronic quick shot bingo site operating system must have a backup and archive utility to allow the operator to save critical data should a system failure occur. This backup must automatically run after the end of each session or may be a manual process to be run at the operator's command after the end of each session.

24. The use of a random number generator may be used in the selection of bingo balls. The selection must be statistically independent, pass recognized statistical tests, and be unpredictable.

25. A card-marking device must automatically stop operating when a winning bingo pattern exceeding five hundred dollars is won by the player and must display a notification to the player to contact an employee. However, this rule does not apply when an electronic quick shot bingo site operating system displays the prize amounts greater than five hundred dollars when a player redeems the prize winnings from the player's account.

N.D. Admin Code 99-01.3-16-09.4

Effective July 1, 2012.

Amended by Administrative Rules Supplement 2016-360, April 2016, effective 4/1/2016.

Amended by Administrative Rules Supplement 369, July 2018, effective 7/1/2018.

General Authority: NDCC 53-06.1-01.1

Law Implemented: NDCC 53-06.1-01.1