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THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
LOTTERY AND CHARITABLE GAMES CONTROL BOARD
NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING
The Executive Director of the District of Columbia Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board, pursuant to the authority set forth in D.C. Official Code §3-1306, District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority Order issued September 21, 1996, and Office of the Chief Financial Officer Financial Management Control Order No. 96-22 issued November 18, 1996, hereby gives notice of the proposal of amendments to Chapters 5 and 9 of Title 30 DCMR, “Lottery and Charitable Games.” These amendments are necessary to introduce the District Dollars Raffle Game that will start on November 18, 2009. The Executive Director gives notice of his intent to take final rulemaking action to adopt the amendments in no less than thirty (30) days from the date of publication of this notice in the D.C. Register.
Amend subsection 503.4 by substituting the following:
503.4 A ticket for POWERBALLÒ, Hot LottoTM, DC Daily 6TM, Rolling Cash 5Ô, and all On-Line Raffle Tickets shall not be voided or cancelled.
AMEND CHAPTER 9. “DESCRIPTION OF ON-LINE GAMES”
Amend Chapter 9 by deleting sections 915 and 916 in their entirety and replacing with the following:
915. DESCRIPTION OF ON-LINE RAFFLE GAME
915.1 The Agency may offer On-Line Raffle Games.
915.2 The Agency’s raffle game shall be called District Dollars Raffle Game.
915.3 District Dollars Raffle Game rules only apply to the Agency’s on-line raffle games and not to the Charitable Gaming Raffle rules referred to in Title 30, Chapter 15 of the D.C. Municipal Rules and Regulations.
915.4 District Dollars Raffle Game is an On-Line Raffle style game played at any agent location that has an on-line terminal. On-Line Raffle tickets are sold in limited quantities, for a specified limited time.
915.5 Each raffle ticket contains a unique serial number or numbers from a specified range. A player purchases the raffle ticket for a chance to win prizes through a random drawing of all purchased raffle tickets.
915.6 Agency shall offer 40,000 on-line raffle tickets for the District Dollars Raffle Game.
915.7 Raffle tickets will be sold from Wednesday, November 18, 2009 through Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 12.59 a.m. Tickets for the next weekly drawing will start on Wednesday at 6:00 a.m.
915.8 The cost of one (1) District Dollars Raffle Game ticket shall be ($1.00) one dollars each or any other price designated by the Executive Director from a price schedule adopted by the Agency.
915.9 The player must inform the agent that they want to play the D.C Weekly Raffle Game. There are no play slips or quick pick selections for the District Dollars Raffle Game.
915.10 Each District Dollars Raffle Game ticket shall contain a five (5) digit number from tickets from 00001 through 40,000 and shall be sold sequentially from the available selection pool. Players purchasing more than one (1) ticket may not receive consecutively numbered tickets because of availability at the time of purchase.
915.11 The winning ticket numbers will be determined through a drawing that will be conducted with the Agency’s Computerized Drawing System (“CDS”). Such winning ticket numbers shall be selected in accordance with Lottery draw procedures.
915.12 The order of the ticket numbers drawn by the CDS at the drawing determines the prize level eligibility. The first (1st) ticket number drawn shall be the winner of the first (1st) prize of $10,000 dollars. The next five (5) tickets numbers drawn shall be the winners of the (2nd) prize of $1,000 each. And the next ten (10) ticket numbers drawn shall be the winners of the (3rd) prize of $500 each.
915.13 A player wins if the raffle ticket number drawn matches their raffle ticket number exactly and the ticket validates in the D.C. Lottery system. There shall be no alternates drawn for this game.
915.14 Unless otherwise specified by the Executive Director, the sale of the District Dollars Raffle Game tickets will be suspended when the 40,000 ticket is sold, or on the Wednesday at 12:59 a.m. of the day of the District Dollars Raffle Game weekly drawing.
915.15 The Agency reserves the right to reschedule any dates and times, without advance notice, when circumstances warrant. It is anticipated that raffle tickets will begin being sold on November 18, 2009 and the first drawing will take place on Wednesday, November 25, 2009, and each week there after for a total of six (6) weeks. However the District Dollars Raffle Game may begin or end as directed by the Executive Director.
915.16 The player is solely responsible for ensuring that he or she receives a raffle ticket after purchase. The printed District Dollars Raffle Game ticket is the only valid proof of a player’s purchase and is the only valid receipt for claiming a prize. A ticket subject to the validations requirements of this title shall be the only proof of a wager.
915.17 A player whose ticket does not print as a result of a paper jam or other error cannot receive a reprint of that ticket. The full value of the ticket purchase price must be refunded to the player. The agent must properly document and report the event along with the appropriate paper work to receive credit.
916 DISTRICT DOLLARS RAFFLE GAME PRIZE POOL, PRIZE STRUCTURE AND PROBABILITY OF WINNING
916.1 The District Dollars Raffle Game will offer a total of sixteen (16) prizes.
916.2 The prize pool for all prize categories shall consist of fifty percent (50%) of each drawing period sales based on a sale of 40,000 tickets.
916.3 The District Dollars Raffle Game is a weekly raffle game with fixed payout for the prizes which pays prizes based on a sale of 40,000 tickets at ($1.00) one dollars each are as follows:
Number of Winners
Per 40,000 Tickets Win
1 $10,000
5 $1,000
10 $500
916.4 The following table sets forth the probability of winning and the probable distribution of winners in and among each prize category, based upon selling all 40,000 weekly raffle tickets.
Set Prize Amount
Number of Prizes
Overall Odds
Amount Paid
Percentage
Of Sales
Percentage
Of Payout
$10,000
1
1:40,0000
$10,000
25%
25%
$1,000
5
1:8,0000
$5,000
10%
12.5%
$500
10
1:4,000
$5,000
15%
12.5%
Total
16
1:2,500
$20,000
50%
50%
All persons desiring to comment on the subject matter of this proposed rulemaking should file comments in writing not later than thirty (30) days from the date of publication of this notice in the Register. Comments should be filed with the Executive Director, District of Columbia Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board, 2101 Martin Luther King, Jr., Avenue, S.E., Washington, D.C. 20020. Copies of these proposed rules may be obtained at the address stated above.
