Section 30-700. CONDUCT OF INSTANT GAMES AND AGENTS

 

700.1 The Agency may operate instant games.  Instant games may consist of individual instant tickets.  Only the Agency or sales agents who have been licensed by the agency are authorized to sell instant tickets, and a licensed sales agent may only sell instant tickets at the licensed location.

 

700.2Each instant ticket shall state the overall estimated odds of winning a prize of any kind. 

 

700.3 Each instant ticket shall sell for the retail sales price authorized by the Executive Director and stated in the individual game procedures.

 

700.4Instant games may continue to be sold even when all of the top prizes have been sold.

700.5The number of actual prizes available in a game may vary based on the number of tickets manufactured, tested, distributed, and sold, and on the number of prizes claimed.

 

700.6Once instant tickets are invoiced, packaged, and shipped to an agent’s address or picked up by an agent or agent’s representative, the instant tickets are assigned to that agent. 

 

700.7Instant tickets are assigned to a specific licensed sales agent location and shall not be sold, confirmed, or activated from another location. 

 

700.8Once the agent or agent’s representative picks up or signs for delivery of instant tickets and until a valid sale of the instant tickets occurs, the agent assumes all legal and financial liability and responsibility for the instant tickets.

 

700.9Once the agent or agent’s representative picks up or signs for delivery of instant tickets and until a valid sale of the instant tickets occurs, the agent is responsible for ensuring the integrity and security of the instant tickets. 

 

700.10It is the agent’s responsibility to ensure all signed for or picked up instant tickets are received, accounted for, paid for, organized, secured, confirmed, held, activated, validated, and treated in accordance with the D.C. Official Code and Title 30 of the D.C. Municipal Regulations.

 

700.11The agent is responsible for ensuring that all instant tickets the agent or agent’s representative sign for or pick up are kept in a way that meets the standards of a reasonably prudent business person. 

 

700.12Agents shall report complications or issues with instant ticket deliveries to the Agency within twenty-four (24) hours of signing for delivery of the instant tickets.

 

700.13 Agents shall confirm receipt of instant tickets by scanning the ticket invoice at the agent’s retailer terminal within twenty-four (24) hours of signing for delivery or pickup of the instant tickets.

 

700.14Agents shall activate instant tickets by scanning the instant ticket pack at the agent’s retailer terminal within thirty (30) days of signing for delivery or picking up instant tickets.  The time by which instant tickets shall be activated may be modified at the Executive Director’s discretion.

 

700.15Agents are responsible for ensuring that instant ticket packs are not activated before receipt is confirmed in accordance with § 700.13 of this chapter.

 

700.16The agent is responsible for ensuring that all instant tickets the agent or agent’s representative sign for or pick up are not lost, stolen, tampered with, compromised, defaced or validated before activation and valid sale. 

 

700.17Agents shall ensure that instant tickets are not scratched or validated until the instant tickets are activated and validly sold.

 

700.18Agents shall ensure a pack of instant tickets is not opened until the pack of instant tickets is activated.

 

700.19The Agency has the right to activate instant tickets automatically.

 

700.20An agent or agent’s representative’s failure to confirm receipt or activate instant tickets in accordance with this chapter shall not relieve the agent’s liabilities or payment obligations under this title, chapter, or any current or future Agency guidelines, or any other law, rule, or regulation of the United States or District of Columbia.

 

700.21 The Agency has the right to collect confirmed or activated instant tickets and redistribute the instant tickets to other agents.  Agents may not be charged for tickets that are collected from that agent for redistribution purposes.

 

700.22A pack of instant tickets shall settle, and payment for tickets shall be due, forty-five (45) days from the date of activation or when eighty percent (80%) of low-tier tickets are claimed, whichever comes first.  This settlement scheme may be altered at the Executive Director’s discretion with seven (7) days advanced written notice to agents. 

 

700.23The Agency has the right to force settle instant tickets before the settlement date or time described in § 700.22 of this chapter.

 

700.24Instant tickets shall not be sold after the official end of instant game date. 

 

700.25The Agency reserves the right to seize instant tickets in any status, at any time, and for any reason.  If instant tickets are seized to protect the integrity and security of the lottery or due to an actual or perceived violation or transgression of a law or D.C. Municipal Regulation, the agent remains responsible for payment of the instant tickets.

 

700.26The Agency may allow returns of instant ticket packs if the instant ticket packs are unopened and the instant ticket game has not passed the end of game date.  Returns of instant tickets in any other circumstance shall take place at the discretion and with the advanced written approval of the Executive Director. 

 

 

authority

The 2005 District of Columbia Omnibus Authorization Act, approved October 16, 2006 (Pub. L. No. 109-356, § 201, 120 Stat. 2019; D.C. Official Code §§ 1-204.24a(c)(6) (2014 Repl.)); Section 4 of the Law to Legalize Lotteries, Daily Numbers Games, and Bingo and Raffles for Charitable Purposes in the District of Columbia, effective March 10, 1981 (D.C. Law 3-172; D.C. Official Code §§ 3-1306(a), 3-1313, 1314, 1315, and 3-1321 (2012 Repl.)); District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority Order, issued September 21, 1996; Office of the Chief Financial Officer Financial Management Control Order No. 96-22, issued November 18, 1996; and Office of the Chief Financial Officer Management & Control Order No. 98-10, issued January 1998.

source

Final Rulemaking published at 39 DCR 7439, 7449 (October 2, 1992); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 62 DCR 2768 (March 6, 2015); as corrected by Errata Notice published at 62 DCR 3680 (March 27, 2015).