A fair board shall apply for a license to conduct amusement games or devices or bingo from the attorney general at least thirty days before the operation of such games. Application must be made upon forms prescribed by the attorney general along with the submission of a fifty dollar license fee.

Terms Used In North Dakota Code 53-04.1-03

  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute means the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Organization: includes a foreign or domestic association, business trust, corporation, enterprise, estate, joint venture, limited liability company, limited liability partnership, limited partnership, partnership, trust, or any legal or commercial entity. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • Rule: includes regulation. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
  • written: include "typewriting" and "typewritten" and "printing" and "printed" except in the case of signatures and when the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See North Dakota Code 1-01-37

The license application must be signed and sworn to by the applicant and must contain the following:

1.    The name and post-office address of the applicant.

2.    The location at which the organization will conduct the amusement games or devices or bingo, whether the organization owns or leases the premises, and a copy of the rental agreement if it leases the premises.

3.    A statement of the applicant’s previous history and association sufficient to establish the applicant is an eligible organization.

4.    A statement of the educational, charitable, patriotic, fraternal, religious, or other public-spirited uses to which the net proceeds of an amusement game or device or bingo will be devoted.

5.    Such other reasonable and necessary information as the attorney general may require.

The attorney general shall license applicant organizations which conform to the requirements of this chapter to conduct amusement games or devices or bingo. In addition, the attorney general may, on the attorney general’s own motion based on reasonable grounds or on written complaint, suspend or revoke a license in accordance with chapter 28-32 for violation, by the licensee or other officer, director, agent, member, or employee of such licensee, of this chapter or any rule adopted pursuant to this chapter. Each amusement game or device must be licensed by the attorney general’s office in accordance with chapter 53-04.

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