25.05.030 Contents of the Vendor License Application

(a) Applications for gaming vendor licenses must include the following:

(1) Name of business, business address, business telephone number(s), federal tax identification number (or social security number, if a sole proprietorship), main office address (if different from business address), any other names used by the applicant in business, and type of service(s) applicant will provide;

(2) Whether the applicant is a partnership, corporation, limited liability company, sole proprietorship or other entity;

(3) If the applicant is a corporation, the state of incorporation and the qualification to do business in the State of North Dakota, if the gaming operation is in a different state than the state of incorporation.

(4) Trade name, other names ever used and names of any wholly owned subsidiaries or other businesses owned by the vendor or its principals;

(5) General description of the business and its activities;

(6) Whether the applicant will be investing in, or loaning money to, the gaming operation, and, if so, how much;

(7) A description of any existing and previous business relationships with the gaming industry generally, including ownership interests in those businesses;

(8) A list of Indian tribes with which the vendor has an existing or previous business relationship, including ownership, financial or management interests in any non-gaming activity;

(9) If the vendor has extensive interaction with Indian tribes, a tribe may want to limit this list to the ten (10) biggest contracts;

(10) A tribe may want to consider naming a higher amount for larger or publicly traded companies.;

(11) Names, addresses and telephone numbers of three (3) business references with whom the company has regularly done business for the last five (5) years;

(12) The name and address of any licensing or regulatory agency with which the business has filed an application for a license or permit related to gaming, whether or not such license or permit was granted;

(13) If the business has ever had a license revoked for any reason, the circumstances involved;

(14) A list of lawsuits to which the business has been a defendant, including the name and address of the court involved, and the date and disposition, if any;

(15) A list the business' funding sources and any liabilities of $50,000 or more;

(16) A list of the principals of the business, their social security numbers, addresses, telephone numbers, titles, and percentage of ownership in the company; and

(17) Any further information the Tribe deems relevant.

(b) The following notice shall be placed on the application form for a vendor and its principals:

Inclusion of false or misleading information in the vendor application may be grounds for denial or revocation of the Tribe's vendor license.

(c) A vendor may submit to the Commission a copy of a recent license application to another jurisdiction if it contains the information listed above. The vendor will be required to submit, in writing, any changes in the information since the other license application was filed, and any information requested by the Tribe not contained in the other application.