New York Tax Law Article 34 - NEW YORK STATE LOTTERY FOR EDUCATION

• 1600 - Short Title.
  This article shall be known and may be cited as the "New York state lottery for education law."
• 1601 - Statement of Purpose.
  This article is enacted to implement the amendment of section nine of article one of the state constitution, as approved by the vote of the...
• 1602 - Definitions.
  As used in this article: 1. "Lottery" means the lottery operated by the state pursuant to this article. 2. "Division": (a) means the division of...
• 1603 - Division of the Lottery.
  There is hereby created within the commission the division of the lottery.
• 1604 - Powers and Duties of the Division.
  a. In addition to the powers and duties provided in other sections of this article, the division shall have the power and it shall be...
• 1604-a - Posting of Signs to Assist Compulsive Gamblers.
  The division shall cooperate with the commissioner of alcoholism and substance abuse services to ensure the posting of signs designed to assist compulsive gamblers pursuant...
• 1605 - Lottery Sales Agents and Other Licenses.
  1605. Lottery sales agents and other licensees. a. The division may license as agents to sell lottery tickets such persons as in its opinion will...
• 1606 - Authorization of Lottery Sales Agents.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any agent licensed pursuant to this article is hereby authorized and empowered to act as a lottery sales agent.
• 1607 - Suspension and Revocation of Licenses.
  The division may suspend or revoke, after notice and an opportunity for a hearing pursuant to the state administrative procedure act, any license issued pursuant...
• 1608 - Other Statutes Not Applicable.
  No other law providing any penalty or disability for the sale of lottery tickets or any acts done in connection with a lottery shall apply...
• 1609 - Lottery Tickets.
  a. Lottery tickets shall be in such form as the division may prescribe. No ticket shall be sold at a price greater than that fixed...
• 1610 - Sales to Certain Persons Prohibited.
  a. No ticket shall be sold to any person under the age of eighteen years, but this shall not be deemed to prohibit the purchase...
• 1611 - Delivery of Funds; Designation of Banks.
  a. Except as otherwise provided in this section, all moneys received by any and all lottery sales agents from the sales of lottery tickets, including...
• 1612 - Disposition of Revenues.
  a. The division shall pay into an account, to be known as the lottery prize account, under the joint custody of the comptroller and the...
• 1613 - Certification of Prize Winners; Payment of Prizes.
  a. It shall be the duty of the director to require that all prizes over five thousand dollars in any game be awarded to holders...
• 1613-a - Crediting of Lottery Prizes Against Past-Due Support.
  (1) The director of the lottery, on behalf of the division of the lottery, shall enter into a written agreement with the commissioner of the...
• 1613-b - Crediting of Lottery Prizes Against Public Assistance Benefits.
  (1) Notwithstanding any limitations in section one hundred four of the social services law, the director of the lottery, on behalf of the division of...
• 1613-c - Crediting of Lottery Prizes Against Liabilities for Taxes Administered by the Commissioner.
  (1) The director, on behalf of the division, shall enter into a written agreement with the commissioner, on behalf of the department, within sixty days...
• 1614 - Unclaimed and Abandoned Prize Money.
  a. No prize claim shall be valid if submitted to the division following the expiration of a one-year time period from the date of the...
• 1615 - Fiscal Year of Lottery, Reporting Requirements and Fiscal Planning.
  a. All books, accounts and records of the division, relating to the state lottery, shall be kept by fiscal years beginning on the first day...
• 1616 - Continuation of Licenses.
  All licenses issued by the commissioner to lottery sales agents prior to the effective date of this act shall continue in effect by their terms...
• 1617 - Joint, Multi-Jurisdiction, and Out-Of-state Lottery.
  The director may enter into an agreement with a government-authorized group of one or more other jurisdictions providing for the operation and administration of a...
• 1617-a - Video Lottery Gaming.
  a. The gaming commission is hereby authorized to license, pursuant to rules and regulations to be promulgated by the gaming commission, the operation of video...
• 1618 - Special Drawings.
  a. General. The division may hold special prize drawings each of which shall guarantee as a first prize to the winner or winners an amount...
• 1620 - Request for Proposals Required.
  a. In the event that the division determines to implement any on-line lottery game whether known as "Quick Draw" or by any other name, the...

Last modified: February 3, 2019