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D.C. Municipal Regulations (Last Updated: September 13, 2017) |
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Title 30. LOTTERY AND CHARITABLE GAMES |
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Chapter 30-9. DESCRIPTION OF ON-LINE GAMES |
Section 30-974. LUCKY FOR LIFE PLAY RESTRICTIONS AND PLAY STYLES
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974.1Contribution to Prize Pool. A Party Lottery may offer Game Tickets as a prize or as part of an authorized promotion provided that all such Game Ticket sales are assessed and reported to the prize pool at the full gross sales amount.
974.2 Ineligible Players. Game Tickets Lucky For Life tickets shall not be purchased, and a prize won by any such ticket or share, either in whole or in part, shall not be paid to:
(a) A Party Lottery employee, officer, director, board member or commissioner.
(b) A contractor or consultant under agreement with any Party Lottery to perform audit and security procedures.
(c)An employee of the independent certified public accounting firm under contract with any New England Lottery to oversee Drawing Events.
(d)An employee of a Party Lottery’s on-line vendor.
(e)An employee of a Party Lottery’s advertising or public relations provider.
(f)An immediate family member (parent, stepparent, child, stepchild, spouse, sibling or person engaged in a domestic partnership or civil union) of an individual described in Paragraphs a, b, c, d, e, or f residing as a member of the same household in the principal place of residence of any such person.
(g)Those persons designated herein as ineligible to play the game in one (1) Party Lottery jurisdiction shall also be ineligible to play the game in all other Party Lottery jurisdictions selling the game.
974.3A Lucky For Life ticket may not be cancelled or voided by returning the ticket to the Agent or Agency. A ticket accepted by the Agent as a returned ticket, and that cannot be resold, shall be deemed as owned by the bearer thereof. This prohibition also applies to a ticket that may be printed in error by the Agent.
974.4A Lucky For Life ticket, subject to the validation requirements as detailed in Sections 603, 605, 975.17, 975.19, and 975.20 of these regulations, shall be the only proof of a Bet (or Plays), and the submission of a Winning Ticket to the Agency or an Agent shall be the sole method of claiming a prize or prizes.
974.5A Selection Slip has no pecuniary or prize value and shall not constitute evidence of a ticket purchase or of numbers selected. Under no circumstances shall a claim be paid for a prize without a Winning Ticket.
974.6Disclosure of Lucky For Life game winner and player information shall be in accordance with the District of Columbia’s laws and regulations as well as Section 614 of Title 30 of the D.C. Municipal Regulations.
974.7Players may submit a completed Selection Slip to any Agent to have a game ticket issued. Selection Slips shall be available at no cost to the player and shall have no pecuniary or prize value, or constitute evidence of purchase or number selections. The use of facsimiles of Selection Slips, copies of Selection Slips, or other materials that are inserted into the terminal’s Selection Slip reader that are not printed or approved by the Agency, are not permitted. Agents shall not permit any device to be connected to a terminal to enter bets, plays, or wagers, except as approved by the Agency.
974.8Players may convey their number selections to any Agent to obtain a game ticket. Such number selections shall be manually entered into the terminal by the Agent.
974.9Players may either request a Quick Pick game ticket from an Agent or may select the Quick Pick option on the Selection Slip and submit the completed Selection Slip to any Agent. Quick Pick shall be differentiated from customer selected numbers in that Quick Pick shall refer to the random selection of numbers made by the Central Computer System rather than by the player.
974.10Players may select their own numbers by completing a Selection Slip or by conveying their number selections directly to any Agent. Customer selected numbers shall be differentiated from Quick Pick in that customer selected numbers shall refer to number selections made by the player rather than the Central Computer System.
974.11In connection with the winning numbers drawn, the holder of a Winning Ticket may win only one (1) prize per Play, board or panel, and shall be entitled only to the prize won by those numbers in the highest matching prize category.
974.12A prize shall be claimed within one hundred eighty (180) days after the drawing in which the prize was won commencing with the day following the drawing, unless a shorter period of time has been authorized by the Executive Director.
974.13It shall be the player’s sole responsibility to verify the accuracy of the bet(s) (or plays) and the other data printed on the Lucky For Life ticket. The placing of bets or wagers is done at the player’s own risk through the Agent.