Illinois Compiled Statutes 20 Executive Branch: Article -
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 1
This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Illinois Lottery Law". (Source: P.A. 78-3rd S.S.-20.)
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 2
This Act is enacted to implement and establish within the State a lottery to be conducted by the State through the Department. The entire net...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 3
For the purposes of this Act: a. "Lottery" or "State Lottery" means the lottery or lotteries established and operated pursuant to this Act. b. "Board"...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 4
The Department of the Lottery is established to implement and regulate the State Lottery in the manner provided in this Act. (Source: P.A. 97-464, eff.
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 5
(a) The Department shall be under the supervision and direction of a Director, who shall be a person qualified by training and experience to perform...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 5.1
E.J. "Zeke" Giorgi Lottery Building. The building occupied by the Department from time to time as its main office in Springfield shall be known...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 6
There is hereby created an independent board to be known as the Lottery Control Board, consisting of 5 members, all of whom shall be citizens...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 7.1
The Department shall promulgate such rules and regulations governing the establishment and operation of a State lottery as it deems necessary to carry out the...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 7.2
The rules and regulations of the Department may include, but shall not be limited to, the following: (1) The types of lotteries to be...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 7.3
The Board shall designate Hearing Officers who shall conduct hearings upon complaints charging violations of this Act or of regulations thereunder, and such other...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 7.4
The Department shall carry on a continuous study and investigation of the lottery throughout the State (1) for the purpose of ascertaining any defects...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 7.5
The Board shall report to the Governor, the Attorney General, the Speaker of the House, the President of the Senate, the minority leaders of...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 7.6
The Board shall advise and make recommendations to the Director regarding the functions and operations of the State Lottery. A copy of all such recommendations...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 7.8
The Department shall make an annual report regarding the work of the Board to the Governor, the Speaker of the House, the President of...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 7.8a
The Board shall establish advertising policy to ensure that advertising content and practices do not target with the intent to exploit specific groups or economic...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 7.11
The Department may establish and collect nominal charges for promotional products ("premiums") and other promotional materials produced or acquired by the Department as part of...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 7.12
Internet pilot program. (a) The General Assembly finds that: (1) the consumer market in Illinois has changed since the creation of the Illinois State Lottery...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 7.15
Verification for Internet program; security for Internet lottery accounts. The Department must establish a procedure to verify that an individual is 18 years of age...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 7.16
Voluntary self-exclusion program for Internet lottery sales. Any resident, or non-resident if allowed to participate in the pilot program, may voluntarily prohibit themselves from establishing...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 7.17
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 96-37, eff. 7-13-09. Repealed by P.A. 96-840, eff. 12-23-09.)
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 8
In connection with any hearing held pursuant to Section 7.3 of this Act, the Board, or any Hearing Officer appointed by the Board, may...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 8.1
Contracts for State Lottery tickets or shares or for other State Lottery game related services shall be obtained through the utilization of competitive negotiation...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 9
The Director, as administrative head of the Department, shall direct and supervise all its administrative and technical activities. In addition to the duties imposed upon...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 9.1
Private manager and management agreement. (a) As used in this Section: "Offeror" means a person or group of persons that responds to a request for...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 10
The Department, upon application therefor on forms prescribed by the Department, and upon a determination by the Department that the applicant meets all of the...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 10.1
The following are ineligible for any license under this Act: (a) any person who has been convicted of a felony; (b) any person who is...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 10.1a
In addition to other grounds specified in this Act, the Department shall refuse to issue and shall suspend the license of any lottery sales agency...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 10.2
Application and other fees. Each application for a new lottery license must be accompanied by a one-time application fee of $50; the Department, however, may...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 10.3
All proceeds from the sale of lottery tickets or shares received by a person in the capacity of a sales agent shall constitute a...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 10.4
Every person who shall violate the provisions of Section 10.3, or who does not segregate and keep separate and apart from all other funds...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 10.5
Whenever any person who receives proceeds from the sale of lottery tickets in the capacity of sales agent becomes insolvent, or dies insolvent, the...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 10.6
The Department shall make an effort to more directly inform players of the odds of winning prizes. This effort shall include, at a minimum, that...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 10.7
Compulsive gambling. (a) Each lottery sales agent shall post a statement regarding obtaining assistance with gambling problems and including a toll-free "800" telephone number providing...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 10.8
Specialty retailers license. (a) "Veterans service organization" means an organization that: (1) is formed by and for United States military veterans; (2) is chartered by...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 11
Every officer and employee shall for any offense be subject to the same penalty or penalties, civil or criminal, as are prescribed by existing...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 12
The public inspection and copying of the records and data of the Department and the Board shall be generally governed by the provisions of the...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 13
Except as otherwise provided in Section 13.1, no prize, nor any portion of a prize, nor any right of any person to a prize awarded...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 13.1
Assignment of prizes payable in installments. (a) The right of any person to receive payments under a prize that is paid in installments over...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 14
No person shall sell a ticket or share at a price greater than that fixed by rule or regulation of the Department. No person other...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 14.2
Any person who, with intent to defraud, shall falsely make, alter, forge, utter, pass or counterfeit a lottery ticket or share issued by the...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 14.3
Misuse of proprietary material prohibited. Except as may be provided in Section 7.11, or by bona fide sale or by prior authorization from the Department...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 14.4
Investigators. (a) The Department has the power to appoint investigators to conduct investigations, searches, seizures, arrests, and other duties required to enforce the provisions of...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 15
No minor under 18 years of age shall buy a lottery ticket or share. No person shall sell, distribute samples of, or furnish a...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 16
It shall be a Class B misdemeanor to violate this Act or any rule or regulation promulgated thereunder, or knowingly to submit any false...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 17
No other law providing any penalty or disability for the sale of lottery tickets or shares or any acts done in connection with the...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 18
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 86-1475. Repealed by P.A. 90-346, eff. 8-8-97.)
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 19
The Department shall establish an appropriate period for the claiming of prizes for each lottery game offered. Each claim period shall be stated in game...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 20
State Lottery Fund. (a) There is created in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the "State Lottery Fund". Such fund shall...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 20.1
Department account. (a) The Department is authorized to pay validated prizes up to $25,000 from funds held by the Department in an account separate and...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 21
All lottery sales agents or distributors shall be liable to the Lottery for any and all tickets accepted or generated by any employee or representative...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 21.2
There is created a special fund in the State Treasury known as the Illinois Land Grant Collegiate Athletics Fund. The Department shall designate a...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 21.3
Any officer of any corporation licensed as an agent for the sale of Lottery tickets and products shall be personally liable for the total...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 21.5
Carolyn Adams Ticket For The Cure. (a) The Department shall offer a special instant scratch-off game with the title of "Carolyn Adams Ticket For The...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 21.6
Scratch-off for Illinois veterans. (a) The Department shall offer a special instant scratch-off game for the benefit of Illinois veterans. The game shall commence on...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 21.7
Scratch-out Multiple Sclerosis scratch-off game. (a) The Department shall offer a special instant scratch-off game for the benefit of research pertaining to multiple sclerosis. The...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 21.8
Quality of Life scratch-off game. (a) The Department shall offer a special instant scratch-off game with the title of "Quality of Life". The game shall...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 21.9
Go For The Gold scratch-off game. (a) The Department shall offer a special instant scratch-off game with the title of "Go For The Gold". The...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 24
The State Comptroller shall conduct a preaudit of all accounts and transactions of the Department in connection with the operation of the State Lottery under...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 25
Any party adversely affected by a final order or determination of the Board or the Department may obtain judicial review, by filing a petition...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 26
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, Section, provision or other portion of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 27
(a) The State Treasurer may, with the consent of the Director, contract with any person or corporation, including, without limitation, a bank, banking house, trust...
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 28
(Repealed). (Source: P.A. 90-372, eff. 7-1-98. Repealed internally, eff. 7-1-98.)
- Illinois Lottery Law. - 20 ILCS 1605, Section 29
The Department of the Lottery. (a) Executive Order No. 2003-09 is hereby superseded by this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly to the extent...
Last modified: February 18, 2015