North Dakota Administrative Code
Title 69.5 - Racing Commission, North Dakota
Article 69.5-01 - North Dakota Racing Commission Rules
Chapter 69.5-01-08 - Pari-Mutuel Wagering Systems
Section 69.5-01-08-11 - Pari-mutuel ticket sales

1. No pari-mutuel tickets may be sold except by the association conducting the races on which such wagers are made or a licensee who is hosting pools. Association tickets must be sold only at regular "seller" windows properly designated by signs showing the type and denomination of tickets to be sold at such windows if there are restrictions of any kind. No pari-mutuel tickets may be sold after the totalizator has been locked and no association is responsible for ticket sales entered into but not completed by issuance of a ticket before the totalizator has been locked.

2. Any claim by a person that the person has been issued a ticket other than that which the person requested must be made before such person leaves the seller window and before the totalizator is locked.

3. After purchasing a ticket and after leaving a ticket window, a person is not entitled to enter for issuance of an incorrect ticket, or claim refund or payment for tickets discarded, lost, destroyed, or mutilated beyond identification.

4. Payment on valid pari-mutuel tickets may be made only upon presentation and surrender thereof to the association where such wager was made within ninety days following the running of the race on which such wager was made. Failure to present any such ticket within ninety days constitutes a waiver of the right to receive payment thereon. The balance of funds not paid out constitutes the outs.

5. Payment of valid pari-mutuel tickets must be made on the basis of the order of finishes purposely posted on the infield results board and declared "official" by the stewards; any subsequent change in such order of finish or award of purse money as may result from a subsequent ruling by the stewards or commission in no way affects the pari-mutuel payoff. Cashiers' windows must remain open a reasonable length of time after the last race.

6. The association is responsible for the correctness of all payoff prices posted as "official" on the infield results board. If an error is made in posting the payoff figures on the public board, and ascertained before any tickets are cashed thereon, then such posting error may be corrected accompanied by a public address announcement, and only the correct amounts may be used in the payoff, irrespective of the initial error on the public board.

7. Prior to posting payoffs, the pari-mutuel manager shall require each of the computer printout sheets of such race to be proven and the winners verified. Such proof must show the amounts for commissions, breakage, and payoffs, which added together must equal the total pool. All pay slips are to be checked with computer printout sheets as to winner and prices before being issued to cashiers, and all board prices are to be rechecked before released to the public.

8. Whenever the recapitulation of the sales registered by each ticket issuing machine subsequently proves that the actual amount in the pool, or pools, is less than the amount used in calculating the payoff, such deficiency must be deposited in the pool or pools by the association. Should the recapitulation of sales prove that the actual amount in the pool or pools is greater than the amount used in calculating the payoff due to an error of the totalizator, such error resulting in underpayment to the public, then the aggregate of such underpayments must be paid into the corresponding pool of the next race or races in such amounts as may be determined by the state steward and the pari-mutuel manager. If any such error should occur in computing the daily double pool, the underpayment must be added to the daily double pool of the following day. Overpayments and underpayments subsequently discovered upon recapitulation after the close of a meeting may be adjusted, and any underpayment resulting from such final adjustment must be paid to the commission.