Tickets - Limitations and requirements

1. Each raffle ticket is a separate and equal chance to win with all other tickets sold. A person may not be required to buy more than one ticket, or to pay for anything other than the ticket, to enter a raffle. An organization may sell several tickets or sell tickets in advance of a special event to a person at a discount. A discounted ticket must be specifically designated as a discounted ticket on the ticket and its stub. The number of discounted tickets must be predetermined and separately issued and accounted for when issued to a ticket seller. 2. An organization may not allow a raffle ticket seller to retain a ticket for free or retain any portion of the price of a ticket as compensation, and may not compensate the seller a certain amount or provide a gift for selling a winning ticket. An organization may provide a raffle ticket seller a fixed amount for selling the most or a certain number of tickets. A raffle ticket may not be resold. An organization may not require raffle tickets to be sold in exchange for a discount or payment for youth athletic programs. 3. A raffle ticket must have a detachable stub that is consecutively numbered. A raffle ticket stub must have a duplicate number corresponding to the number on the ticket and contain the player's name, address, and telephone number, or email address, except when double roll tickets are used. Only one player's name may be on a raffle ticket stub. A ticket must be issued, as a receipt, to a player. For a raffle conducted by a licensed organization, the ticket numbers must be mechanically or electronically imprinted. For a raffle conducted by an organization that has a permit, the ticket may be manually imprinted. 4. An employee may not sell a ticket on a site where another organization is licensed or has a permit unless the employee is granted permission by the lessor and other organization. An employee of a lessor may sell raffle tickets at the site for the organization authorized to conduct games at that site, except for online raffles according to section 99-01.3-05-01.1. 5. A ticket seller shall return the stubs of all tickets sold. The stubs must be intermixed in a receptacle. 6. An organization shall return the price of a ticket to a player if the stub of the player's ticket was not placed in the receptacle for the drawing. 7. For a calendar raffle, the stub of each ticket sold must be entered in all the drawings conducted since the ticket was sold. A licensed organization may not conduct a calendar raffle for other than a fiscal year beginning July first and ending June thirtieth. 8. An organization may not conduct a drawing unless two employees are present. A drawing must occur at an authorized public or private site. 9. In conducting a drawing, an employee shall draw a stub for the highest valued prize first. If there is more than one prize, an employee shall continue drawing for the prizes in the order of descending value. A prize is valued at its cash value or retail price. An organization may defer announcing the names of the winning players and respective prizes until after all the drawings have occurred and may make the announcement in any sequence. This rule does not apply when an organization adopts a written policy to place a winning player's stub immediately back into a receptacle to potentially be drawn for another prize or multiple drawings with a winner's choice of prizes. 10. An organization may not print any word or phrase on promotional material or advertising which implies or expresses that a purchase of the ticket is a charitable donation.