Section 30-906. DESCRIPTION OF THE POWERBALL(R) GAME

 

906.1POWERBALL® is a five (5) out of sixty-nine (69) plus one (1) out of twenty six (26) numbers online lottery game drawn every Wednesday and Saturday as part of the POWERBALL drawing event, which pays the Grand Prize, at the player’s election, on an annuitized pari-mutuel basis or as a cash lump sum payment of the total cash held for this prize pool on a pari-mutuel basis. Except as provided in these rules, all other prizes are paid on a fixed cash basis. To play POWERBALL®, a player must select five (5) different numbers, between one (1) and sixty-nine (69) and one (1) additional number between one (1) and twenty-six (26) for input into a terminal.

 

906.2If a single ticket contains more than one (1) winning play on separate game boards, the prize amounts shall be added together and shall be paid in accordance with the prize payment limits set forth in §§906.3 and 909.

 

906.3The holder of a winning POWER BALL® ticket may win in only one prize category per board in connection with the winning numbers drawn, and shall be entitled only to the prize for the highest prize category won by those numbers.

 

906.4 The price of a POWERBALL® game ticket shall be one (1) play for two dollars ($ 2) or any other price designated by the Executive Director from a price schedule adopted by the Agency pursuant to § 500.1.

 

 

authority

Law to Legalize Lotteries, Daily Numbers, 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 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 Financial Management Control Orders No. 97-15, issued May 15,1997, and No. 96-16 (September 24, 1996); and Office of the Chief Financial Officer Financial Management Control Order No. 15-11, issued April 14, 2015 (appointing Tracey Cohen Interim Executive Director of the District of Columbia Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board).

source

Final Rulemaking published at 39 DCR 7439, 7459 (October 2, 1992); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 50 DCR 1526 (February 14, 2003); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 52 DCR 7224 (August 5, 2005); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 56 DCR 73 (January 2, 2009); as amended by Emergency and Proposed Rulemaking published at 58 DCR 10801 (December 16, 2011)[EXPIRED]; as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 59 DCR 143 (January 13, 2012); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 62 DCR 13017 (October 2, 2015).