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Arizona Revised Statutes - Title 5 Amusements and Sports - Chapter 5 State Lottery

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  • 5-501 - Definitions
    In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Commission" means the Arizona state lottery commission. 2. "Director" means the executive director of the Arizona...
  • 5-502 - Arizona state lottery commission; membership; appointment; term; chairman; removal; reimbursement of expenses
    A. There is established the Arizona state lottery commission consisting of five members who shall be citizens and residents of this state and appointed by...
  • 5-503 - Executive director; appointment
    A. An executive director appointed by the governor pursuant to section 38-211 shall exercise immediate supervision over the lottery. The director shall be a person...
  • 5-504 - Commission; director; powers and duties; definitions
    A. The commission shall meet with the director not less than once each quarter to make recommendations and set policy, receive reports from the director...
  • 5-505 - Apportionment of revenue
    A. Not more than eighteen and one-half per cent of the total annual revenues accruing from the sale of lottery tickets or shares and from...
  • 5-506 - Powers and duties of director
    In addition to other powers and duties prescribed in this chapter, the director shall: 1. Supervise and administer the operation of the lottery in accordance...
  • 5-507 - Monthly reports; annual reports
    A. The director shall make a monthly report to the commission, the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the...
  • 5-508 - Studies and investigations
    A. The director shall conduct an ongoing study and investigation of the lottery for the following purposes: 1. To ascertain any defects in this chapter...
  • 5-509 - Contracts; limitation; restrictions
    A. Notwithstanding any other statute, the director may: 1. Directly solicit bids and contract for the design and operation of the lottery or the purchase...
  • 5-510 - Security operations; powers; peace officer status
    A. The state lottery commission shall maintain operations responsible for security. The director shall appoint a security officer to supervise the security operations of the...
  • 5-511 - Department of public safety; investigation; authority; payment
    The director of the department of public safety shall order an investigation into any violation of a statute of this state which pertains to the...
  • 5-512 - Licenses to sell tickets or shares; fee; conditions; definitions
    A. A license as an agent to sell lottery tickets or shares shall not be issued to any person to engage in business exclusively as...
  • 5-512.01 - Prosecution; payment of costs
    A. The attorney general and county attorneys have concurrent prosecution authority for any offense arising out of or in connection with the formation, management, operation...
  • 5-513 - Right to prize not assignable; exceptions
    A. The right of any person to a prize is not assignable, except that: 1. Payment of any prize drawn or the remainder of any...
  • 5-514 - Sale at unauthorized price or by unauthorized persons; violation; classification
    A. A person shall not sell a ticket or share at a price greater than that fixed by rule. A person other than a licensed...
  • 5-515 - Sale of tickets or shares to underage persons; violation; classification
    A. Until June 1, 2003, it is unlawful for a person to sell or offer to sell a lottery ticket or share to any person...
  • 5-515.01 - Sale to persons using state issued electronic benefits transfer cards; violation; classification
    A. It is unlawful for a licensed agent to sell a lottery ticket or share to a person who uses either a public assistance voucher...
  • 5-515.02 - Purchase of lottery tickets or shares by minors or persons under twenty‑one years of age; penalty
    5-515.02. Purchase of lottery tickets or shares by minors or persons under twenty-one years of age; penalty A. Until June 1, 2003, it is unlawful...
  • 5-516 - Alteration of lottery tickets; violation; classification
    Any person who, with intent to defraud, falsely makes, alters, forges, utters, passes or counterfeits a state lottery ticket or share is guilty of a...
  • 5-517 - Purchase of tickets and receipt of prizes by certain persons prohibited
    A. A lottery ticket or share may not be purchased by and a prize may not be paid to an officer or employee of the...
  • 5-518 - Disposition of unclaimed prize money
    Unclaimed prize money for the prize on a winning ticket or share shall be retained for the person entitled to the prize for one hundred...
  • 5-519 - Lottery redemption agents
    The director may make arrangements for redemption agents to perform functions, activities or services in connection with the operation of the lottery, including direct payment...
  • 5-520 - Award of prize to certain persons prohibited
    Until June 1, 2003, no prize may be paid on any winning ticket or share to any person who is under eighteen years of age....
  • 5-521 - State lottery fund
    The state lottery fund is established consisting of all revenues received from the sale of lottery tickets or shares, the fees, if any, charged pursuant...
  • 5-522 - Use of monies in state lottery fund; report
    (Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 may apply) A. The monies in the state lottery fund shall be expended for the expenses of the commission incurred in...
  • 5-523 - State lottery prize fund; setoff for state debts; notification to department of economic security
    A. The state lottery prize fund is established. That portion of the gross proceeds which is apportioned pursuant to section 5-505, subsection B shall be...
  • 5-524 - Audit of accounts
    The certified public accountant hired to perform the annual audit under section 5-505, subsection A, paragraph 2 shall conduct postaudits of all accounts and transactions...
  • 5-525 - Prizes; setoff for debts to state agencies; definitions
    A. The commission shall establish a liability setoff program by which state lottery prize payments pursuant to section 5-523 may be used to satisfy debts...
  • Last modified: February 19, 2012