Code of Virginia - Title 58.1 Taxation - Chapter 40 State Lottery Law

58.1-4000 Short title
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "State Lottery Law." (1987, c. 531.) ...

58.1-4001 Establishment of state lottery
This chapter establishes a lottery to be operated by the Commonwealth which will produce revenue consonant with the probity of the Commonwealth and the general ...

58.1-4002 Definitions
For the purposes of this chapter: "Board" means the State Lottery Board established by this chapter. "Department" means the State Lottery Department created in this ...

58.1-4003 State Lottery Department established
Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 1 (§ 18.2-325 et seq.) of Chapter 8 of Title 18.2 or any other provision of law, there is hereby ...

58.1-4004 Membership of Board; appointment; terms; vacancies; removal; expenses
A. The Board shall consist of five members, all of whom shall be citizens and residents of this Commonwealth and all of whom shall be ...

58.1-4005 Appointment, qualifications and salary of Director
A. The Department shall be under the immediate supervision and direction of a Director, who shall be a person of good reputation, particularly as to ...

58.1-4006 Powers of the Director
A. The Director shall supervise and administer the operation of the lottery in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and with the rules and ...

58.1-4007 Powers of the Board
A. The Board shall have the power to adopt regulations governing the establishment and operation of a lottery. The regulations governing the establishment and operation ...

58.1-4007.1 Lottery tickets to bear telephone number for compulsive gamblers
All lottery tickets printed after July 1, 1997, shall bear a toll-free telephone number for "Gamblers Anonymous" or other organization which provides assistance to compulsive ...

58.1-4007.2 Lottery tickets not to be sold over Internet.
A. The Department shall not sell lottery tickets or shares directly to consumers over the Internet. B. Nothing in this section shall be construed to ...

58.1-4008 Employees of the Department; background investigations of employees
All persons employed by the Department shall be fingerprinted before, and as a condition of, employment. These fingerprints shall be submitted to the Federal Bureau ...

58.1-4009 Licensing of lottery sales agents; penalty
A. No license as an agent to sell lottery tickets or shares shall be issued to any person to engage in business primarily as a ...

58.1-4010 Authority of persons licensed as lottery sales agents; annual fee
A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any person licensed as provided in this chapter is hereby authorized to act as a lottery sales agent. ...

58.1-4011 Meaning of "gross receipts."
A. Notwithstanding the provisions of Chapter 37 of this title or § 58.1-4025 of this chapter relating to local license taxes, the term "gross receipts" ...

58.1-4012 Suspension and revocation of licenses
The Director may suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew, after notice and a hearing, any license issued pursuant to this chapter. Such license may, however, ...

58.1-4013 Right to prize not assignable; exceptions
A. No right of any person to a prize drawn shall be assignable, except that: (i) payment of any prize drawn may be paid according ...

58.1-4014 Price of tickets or shares; who may sell; penalty
No person shall sell a ticket or share at any price or at any location other than that fixed by rules and regulations of the ...

58.1-4014.1 Method of payment for purchase of tickets or shares.
Lottery sales agents licensed in accordance with this chapter shall accept only cash or debit cards in payment for the purchase of lottery tickets or ...

58.1-4015 Sale of ticket or share to person under eighteen prohibited; penalty
No ticket or share shall be sold to or redeemed from any person under the age of eighteen years. Any licensee who knowingly sells or ...

58.1-4016 Gift to minor prohibited
No ticket or share shall be given as a gift or otherwise to any person under the age of eighteen years. Any person who knowingly ...

58.1-4017 Alteration and forgery; presentation of counterfeit or altered ticket or share; penalty
Any person who forges, alters or fraudulently makes any lottery ticket or share with intent to present for payment or to transfer to another person ...

58.1-4018 Prohibited actions; penalty
Any person who wrongfully and fraudulently uses, disposes of, conceals or embezzles any public money or funds associated with the operation of the lottery shall ...

58.1-4018.1 Larceny of tickets; fraudulent notification of prizes; penalty.
A. Any person who steals or otherwise unlawfully converts to his own or another's use a lottery ticket, prize, share, or portion thereof shall be ...

58.1-4019 Certain persons ineligible to purchase tickets or shares or receive prizes
A. No ticket or share shall be purchased by, and no prize shall be paid on a ticket purchased by or transferred to, any Board ...

58.1-4019.1 License required for "instant ticket" games or contests
No person who owns or is employed by any retail establishment in the Commonwealth shall use any "instant ticket" game or contest for the purpose ...

58.1-4020 Unclaimed prizes
A. Unclaimed prizes for a winning ticket or share shall be retained by the Director for the person entitled thereto for 180 days after the ...

58.1-4020.1 Voluntary assignment of lottery prizes or pledge as collateral for a loan; requirements for the ass...
A. Lottery prizes, payable in installments over a period of time, excluding prizes payable for the winner's life, may be voluntarily assigned or pledged as ...

58.1-4021 Deposit of moneys received by agents; performance of functions, etc., in connection with operation ...
A. The Director shall require all lottery sales agents to deposit to the credit of the State Lottery Fund in banks, designated by the State ...

58.1-4022 State Lottery Fund
A. All moneys received from the sale of lottery tickets or shares, less payment for prizes and compensation of agents as authorized by regulation and ...

58.1-4022.1 Lottery Proceeds Fund
A. There is hereby created in the state treasury a special nonreverting fund to be known as the Lottery Proceeds Fund, hereafter referred to as ...

58.1-4023 Post-audit of accounts and transactions of Department; post-compliance audits
A regular post-audit shall be conducted of all accounts and transactions of the Department. An annual audit of a fiscal and compliance nature of the ...

58.1-4024 Employees of the Department
Employees of the Department shall be exempt from the provisions of the Virginia Personnel Act, Chapter 29 (§ 2.2-2900 et seq.) of Title 2.2. Personnel ...

58.1-4025 Exemption of lottery prizes and sales of tickets from state and local taxation
Except as provided in Chapter 3 of Title 58.1 and § 58.1-4011, no state or local taxes of any type whatsoever shall be imposed upon ...

58.1-4026 Set-off of debts to the Commonwealth from prizes
The Director shall establish by rule and regulation a set-off debt collection program in accordance with the provisions of the Setoff Debt Collection Act, Article ...

58.1-4027 Judicial review
The action of the Board in granting, or in refusing to grant, in suspending or revoking any license under the provisions of this chapter shall ...

58.1-4028 Description unavailable
Repealed by Acts 2002, c. 3. ...