Definitions

1. "Business office" means the office or location where the licensee can be contacted and where the financial transactions, bookkeeping, etc., for the business are carried on. 2. "Machines primarily designed for gambling" mean games or devices, other than games or devices designed, marketed, and intended for noncommercial in-home use, which may or may not operate by insertion of coins, tokens, currency, or similar objects in which success of play involves the application of the element of chance with inability of a player to extend play by application of skill rather than chance and which may have one or more of the following features: a. Retention of a set percentage of credits played or scores earned, such set percentage also known as a "retention ratio" or "house percentage". b. Knockoff switch or switches or a computerized programmed feature to erase credits, scores, or plays which would otherwise permit replay of the game or device, with such erasure being activated by mechanical, electrical, remote control, or other means. c. Knockoff or coin-out meter or meters or a computerized programmed feature which maintains a record of the number of coins, tokens, currency, or similar objects inserted, number of plays, credits, or scores and the number of credits, scores, or plays "knocked off" or erased. 3. "Person" means person as defined by North Dakota Century Code section 1-01-28.