North Carolina: sports wagering and pari-mutuel wagering statewide

Terms you can choose

One year, three years, five years, or a lifetime, chosen by the individual. Removal is automatic at the end of the chosen term: 'Your name will automatically be removed from the list when the time period you selected is complete.' Early removal: 24 NCAC 06A .0603 lets any voluntarily excluded person petition for it, not only in cases of mistaken identity or fraud. The person first takes part in a reinstatement session with a designated agent of the Commission, then submits a petition to the Director on a Commission form available from that agent, and is reinstated after a 30-day waiting period. The Commission's page describes the petition as for 'limited circumstances, such as in the case of mistaken identity or fraud'. No agent name, address or form is published; the only contact is GamingCompliance@ncgaming.gov, for questions about removal.

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When it ends

A fixed term ends on its own at the end of the term; a lifetime term continues until you request removal.

A fixed term. Your name comes off the list on its own when the term you selected is complete: "Your name will automatically be removed from the list when the time period you selected is complete." Nothing needs to be filed for that. Early removal is separate. Under 24 NCAC 06A .0603 any excluded person can ask for it: a reinstatement session with a Commission agent, then a petition to the Commission's Director on a Commission form, then a 30-day wait. The Commission's page gives mistaken identity or fraud as examples, not as the only reasons. No agent contact, address or form is published, only GamingCompliance@ncgaming.gov for questions about the removal process.

A lifetime term. A lifetime term is offered alongside one, three and five years, chosen by the applicant. The automatic-removal sentence is keyed to "the time period you selected" being complete, which a lifetime election never reaches. The Commission's rule 24 NCAC 06A .0603 covers any voluntarily excluded person, lifetime included: a reinstatement session with a designated agent, a petition to the Director on a Commission form, then a 30-day waiting period before reinstatement. No agent contact, address or form is published.

How to enroll

Start the VEP Enrollment Form on DocuSign.

Opens the Commission's Enrollment Form, a DocuSign webform. The Commission's page states that completing and submitting it joins you to the program and shares your name with all licensed operators in North Carolina; the exclusion typically takes effect within three to four business days. Opening the form is not enrollment. No receipt or confirmation is published, so keep your own record of the date you submitted. You can also enroll in person at a Claims Center operated by the North Carolina Education Lottery.

1. Open the Enrollment Form linked from the Commission's Voluntary Self Exclusion page — it is a DocuSign webform. If you would rather do this in person, you can enroll at a Claims Center operated by the North Carolina Education Lottery. Those are the two published routes.
2. Give your full legal name and any aliases, the last four digits of your Social Security number or equivalent identity verification, your date of birth, current address, email and phone, and a physical description: height, weight, gender, hair color, eye color, and any other identifying characteristic. A government-issued ID, or answering unique verification questions, is required at enrollment.
3. Choose your term: one year, three years, five years, or a lifetime.
4. Submit the form. The Commission shares your name with all licensed operators in North Carolina, and the exclusion typically takes effect within three to four business days. No source says whether notarization is required — we could not see the form's fields — and no receipt or confirmation is published, so save your own record of the date you submitted.
5. Your name comes off the list automatically when the term you selected is complete. You can also ask to come off early. The Commission's rule has three steps: a reinstatement session with a Commission agent, then a written petition to the Commission's Director on a Commission form, then a 30-day wait. No agent contact, address or form is published. Questions about removal go to GamingCompliance@ncgaming.gov.

Official form (BanMyself could not inspect the DocuSign webform, so its revision date is unconfirmed.) · Program page

Before you count on it. This list reaches sports wagering and pari-mutuel horse-race wagering with North Carolina's licensed operators. It does not reach the Education Lottery's draw and instant games (the lottery runs its own exclusion for online play, by phone or in your online account), fantasy contests (carved out of the sports-wagering article by that article's own text), or charitable gaming. One scope limit never appears on the consumer-facing program page. The state's sports-wagering law and the Commission's Rules Manual both say they do not apply to wagering conducted exclusively on tribal land, and the enrollment acknowledgment covers "any form of legalized Wagering in the State, excluding federally-recognized tribal lands." So wagering that happens while you are physically on Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians trust land, including at Harrah's Cherokee, is outside this program. That is easy to read the other way, because the Eastern Band's own licensed sports-betting entity (Tribal Casino Gaming Enterprise, EBCI, license NCO-0008) is one of the seven licensed operators on the Commission's list. It has to honor this list for bets you place while you are off tribal land. Whether the Eastern Band runs its own exclusion for wagering on its trust land is unanswered. Harrah's Cherokee's responsible-gaming page shows only booking pages, and the Eastern Band's Tribal Gaming Commission site did not respond to any connection attempt, checked again on 2026-10-01. Treat that as unanswered, not as a no. Enrollment typically takes effect within three to four business days, so protection may lag right after you submit. While you are on the list, any winnings are surrendered and become unclaimed, losses incurred cannot be recovered, and accumulated rewards points are forfeited in North Carolina and elsewhere; an operator may also bar you from its land-based properties and online platforms in other states. Unencumbered funds already in your account before the exclusion begins are refunded. Your name comes off automatically when the term you selected is complete. A lifetime election does not end by itself, but the Commission's rule lets any excluded person petition for early removal: first a reinstatement session with a Commission agent, then a petition to the Commission's Director on a Commission form, then a 30-day wait. No agent contact, address or form is published — only GamingCompliance@ncgaming.gov, for questions about removal. Whether the form requires notarization could not be checked. Whether people from outside North Carolina may enroll is not established. Opening or filling in the form does not by itself mean you are excluded.