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Title: Manufacturer License for Lawful Gambling Equipment
Alternate Title:
Description: Minnesota Gambling Control Board (GCB)
Subject: Gambling
Creation Date: 9/11/2008 2:14:46 PM
Modification Date: 8/21/2024 1:57:01 PM
Agency Name: Gambling Control Board (GCB), Minnesota
Agency URL: https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/age/gambling
Agency Description: The Minnesota Gambling Control Board provides the resources and regulation needed to make the state’s lawful (charitable) gambling industry—the largest in the nation—successful. We ensure the integrity of operations, create educational and outreach materials, and make sure that net profits are used to address a wide range of charitable and community needs across the state.
Agency Phone: 651-539-1900
Agency Fax: Agency URL: https://dps.mn.gov/divisions/age/gambling
Agency Address:
Suite 300 South
1711 W. County Road B
Roseville
MN 55113

Unit Name: Contact Staff
Unit URL: https://mn.gov/gcb/about-us/who-we-are/
Unit Description:
Unit Phone: Unit Fax: Contact person(s): Unit URL: https://mn.gov/gcb/about-us/who-we-are/
Audience: Hold Application URL:
Renewal URL:
Versa URL:
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For Manufacturers

A manufacturers license must be obtained by any person or entity who sells lawful gambling equipment to a licensed distributor in Minnesota.

See manufacturer application forms, background check information, manufacturing standards, forms and reports, and rules and statutes.

Lawful gambling equipment means disposable equipment that includes:

  • bingo hard cards and bingo paper sheets,
  • paper pull-tabs,
  • electronic pull-tabs,
  • jar tickets,
  • paddletickets and paddleticket cards,
  • tipboards and tipboard tickets,
  • promotional tickets that mimic a pull-tab or tipboard,
  • raffle boards,
  • disposable sealed bingo number selection placards, and
  • application software and programs used in the production, play, and reporting of electronic pull-tab and electronic bingo games.

Lawful gambling equipment also means permanent equipment that includes:

  • devices for selecting bingo numbers,
  • electronic bingo devices,
  • electronic pull-tab devices,
  • pull-tab dispensing devices for paper pull-tabs,
  • programmable electronic devices that have no effect on the outcome of a game and are used to provide a visual or auditory enhancement of a game,
  • paddlewheels,
  • paddlewheel tables, and
  • electronic raffle selection systems.

See Manufacturers Rules and Statutes - Minnesota Statutes and Rules


Rules: 7864.0210

Statutes: 349.163

Forms:
Application Information

The following application forms, documentation, and appropriate fees must be submitted to be considered for a manufacturer license:

LG600 Manufacturer License Application
The application fee is $10,000.  A manufacturer's license is valid for one year.

LG610 Manufacturer Personnel Information
The following persons must fill out the manufacturer personnel form:  owners, officers, partners, plant managers, sales employees, persons or entities with a direct or indirect financial interest of five percent or more in the applicant, and consultants.

Background Checks
Completed application forms are sent to the Department of Public Safety for a background check and to the Department of Revenue for a tax clearance. You will be charged for any background investigation expenses.

Upon receipt of the completed background check and tax clearance, your application will be presented to the Minnesota Gambling Control Board for consideration at a monthly board meeting.

Forms and Reports

LG853 Pull-Tab Inspection Checklist

LG621 Manufacturer's Returned Equipment Report

LG623 Manufacturer to Distributor Sales Agreement for Pull-Tab Dispensing Device

LG633 Manufacturer to Distributor Sales Agreement for Electronic Pull-Tab System and Device(s)

LG620 Manufacturer to Distributor Lease Agreement for Pull-Tab Dispensing DeviceLG661 Manufacturer's/Linked Bingo Game Provider's Report of Delinquent Distributor

LG1060 Inventory and Discounts Report

Forms are available at For Manufacturer


Fees:

Annual license fee - $10,000


Period of Issuance:

One year.


Length of Determination: Issued upon background clearance and Board approval.
Other Info:
Activity: Gambling
Gambling Equipment
Lawful Gambling: tipboards, paddlewheels
Lawful Gambling: pull-tabs, bingo
License Detail URL:

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Gambling Control Board (GCB), Minnesota


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