Oregon Statutes - Chapter 461 - Oregon State Lottery
- 461.010 Definitions.
Unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions contained in this chapter shall govern the construction of this chapter. (1) “Lottery” or “state lottery” means the...
- 461.015 Short title.
This chapter shall be known as the Oregon State Lottery Act of 1984. [1985 c.2 §1(1); 1985 c.302 §1(1)]
- 461.020 Purpose.
The people of the State of Oregon declare that the purpose and intent of this chapter is to provide additional moneys for the public purpose...
- 461.030 Local laws preempted; applicability of other laws; severability.
(1) This chapter shall be applicable and uniform throughout the state and all political subdivisions and municipalities therein, and no local authority shall enact any...
- 461.040 Effect on other gambling laws.
Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to repeal or modify existing state laws with respect to gambling, except that the state-operated lottery established...
- 461.050 Location of offices.
The Oregon State Lottery shall have its principal offices in the capital city. [1985 c.302 §8(7)]
- 461.055 [1995 c.341 §2; 1997 c.645 §1; 1999 c.1093 §16; 2003 c.794 §286; repealed by 2007 c.569 §1]
- 461.100 Oregon State Lottery Commission; members; duties; meetings.
(1) The Oregon State Lottery Commission is hereby created in state government. (2)(a) The Oregon State Lottery Commission shall consist of five members appointed by...
- 461.110 Criminal identification information available to lottery; fingerprints; service and execution of warrants.
(1) Upon the request of the Oregon State Lottery Commission or the Director of the Oregon State Lottery, the office of the Attorney General and...
- 461.120 Commission exempt from certain laws; rulemaking; applicability of Administrative Procedures Act.
(1)(a) Except as otherwise provided by law, the provisions of ORS 279.835 to 279.855 and ORS chapters 279A, 279B, 279C, 282 and 283 do not...
- 461.130 Authority of commission; delegation; contracts for security services.
(1) Whenever a power is granted to the commission, the power may be exercised by such officer or employee within the Oregon State Lottery as...
- 461.140 Biennial budget report to Legislative Assembly.
(1) The Oregon State Lottery Commission shall prepare in each even-numbered year a budget report for the biennium beginning July 1 of the following year....
- 461.150 State lottery director; appointment; assistant directors; duties and powers.
(1) The Governor shall appoint a Director of the Oregon State Lottery, subject to confirmation by the Senate, who shall serve at the pleasure of...
- 461.160 Authority of director to contract for services.
Under the rules of the commission, the Director of the Oregon State Lottery may contract with any state agency or political subdivision for the performance...
- 461.170 Coordination between director and commission.
The Director of the Oregon State Lottery shall confer as frequently as necessary or desirable, but not less than monthly, with the commission, regarding the...
- 461.180 Studies; accountability; audits; delegation.
(1) The Director of the Oregon State Lottery shall make an ongoing study of the operation and the administration of the lotteries which may be...
- 461.190 Assistant Director for Security.
The Assistant Director for Security appointed pursuant to the Constitution of the State of Oregon and this chapter shall be responsible for a security division...
- 461.200 Operation of lottery.
Within 105 days after the confirmation by the Senate of the Director of the Oregon State Lottery and at least three commissioners, the director shall...
- 461.210 Security measures; ticket content; rules.
Upon recommendation of the Director of the Oregon State Lottery, the Oregon State Lottery Commission shall adopt rules specifying the types of lottery games to...
- 461.213 [1989 c.828 §4(1),(2); 1991 c.345 §1; 1991 c.613 §3; repealed by 2005 c.810 §3]
- 461.215 Video lottery games.
(1) The Oregon State Lottery Commission may initiate a game or games using video devices, the proceeds from which shall be transferred to the Administrative...
- 461.217 Video lottery game regulation; limitation on number and placement of terminals; rules.
(1) As used in this section, “video lottery game retailer” means a contractor under contract with the Oregon State Lottery to place video lottery game...
- 461.220 Number and value of prizes; required information on lottery tickets; rules; advertising.
(1) Upon recommendation of the Director of the Oregon State Lottery, the Oregon State Lottery Commission shall adopt rules that specify the number and value...
- 461.230 Method for determining winners; rules.
(1) Upon recommendation of the Director of the Oregon State Lottery, the Oregon State Lottery Commission shall adopt rules that specify the method for determining...
- 461.240 Sale price of tickets and shares; rules.
(1) Upon recommendation of the Director of the Oregon State Lottery, the Oregon State Lottery Commission shall adopt rules specifying the retail sales price for...
- 461.250 Validation and payment of prizes; tabulation of sales and prizes; assignment of prizes; payment on behalf of deceased winner; claim period; ineligibility of lottery employees; rules.
Upon recommendation of the Director of the Oregon State Lottery, the Oregon State Lottery Commission shall adopt rules to establish a system of verifying the...
- 461.253 Voluntary assignment of prizes; petition for judicial order; issuance of order; commission intervention in proceeding.
(1) Payment of a prize may be made to any person pursuant to a voluntary assignment of the right to receive future periodic prize payments,...
- 461.257 Judicial order suspending voluntary assignment laws upon finding of adverse tax consequences for all prize winners.
Notwithstanding ORS 461.250 (8) or 461.253, if it is ever determined that prize winners who do not seek to assign their prize payments are subject...
- 461.260 Distribution of tickets and shares; rules.
Upon recommendation of the Director of the Oregon State Lottery, the commission shall adopt rules specifying the manner of distribution, dissemination or sale of lottery...
- 461.300 Selection of retailers; rules; contracts.
(1) The Oregon State Lottery Commission shall adopt rules specifying the terms and conditions for contracting with lottery game retailers so as to provide adequate...
- 461.310 Compensation for retailers.
Upon recommendation of the Director of the Oregon State Lottery, the commission shall determine the compensation to be paid to lottery game retailers for their...
- 461.330 Display of certificate of authority; bond or letter of credit; payments for tickets or shares.
(1) No lottery tickets or shares shall be sold by a lottery game retailer unless the lottery game retailer has on display on the premises...
- 461.335 Temporary letter of authority; grounds for revocation.
(1) The Oregon State Lottery Commission may grant a temporary letter of authority for a period not to exceed 90 days on change of ownership...
- 461.400 Procurements.
Notwithstanding other provisions of law, the Director of the Oregon State Lottery may purchase or lease such goods or services as are necessary for effectuating...
- 461.410 Vendor disclosure for major procurements.
(1) In order to allow an evaluation by the Oregon State Lottery of the competence, integrity, background, character and nature of the true ownership and...
- 461.420 Contract with vendor convicted of crime prohibited.
No contract for a major procurement with any lottery vendor shall be entered into if any control person of that lottery vendor has been convicted...
- 461.430 Contractor required to comply with applicable laws; performance bond.
(1) Each lottery contractor shall perform its contract consistent with the laws of this state, federal law, and laws of the state or states in...
- 461.440 Commission’s authority to contract; rules.
Subject to rules adopted by the commission, the Director of the Oregon State Lottery may enter into all contracts necessary to accomplish the purposes of...
- 461.445 Policy on payment to contractors.
In establishing its schedule of payments to contractors, the Oregon State Lottery Commission shall undertake to develop a system that maximizes the net revenue to...
- 461.500 Lottery to be self-supporting; allocation of revenues.
(1) Except for such moneys as are necessary to temporarily fund the start-up of the state-operated lottery established by the Constitution of the State of...
- 461.510 State Lottery Fund; types of disbursements.
(1) All money payable to the commission shall be deposited in an account known as the State Lottery Fund. The State Lottery Fund shall receive...
- 461.520 Establishment of checking accounts and petty cash fund.
(1) The Director of the Oregon State Lottery is authorized to establish in the State Treasury checking accounts as may be required to disburse by...
- 461.530 Oregon State Lottery Fund.
There is hereby created within the General Fund the Oregon State Lottery Fund which is continuously appropriated for the purpose of administering and operating the...
- 461.535 Intercollegiate Athletic Fund.
The Intercollegiate Athletic Fund is created separate and distinct from the General Fund. The fund shall consist of revenues credited to the Sports Lottery Account...
- 461.540 Administrative Services Economic Development Fund.
(1) There hereby is established in the General Fund of the State Treasury the Administrative Services Economic Development Fund. All moneys transferred from the State...
- 461.543 Sports Lottery Account; distribution of revenues.
(1) Except as otherwise specified in subsection (5) of this section, the Sports Lottery Account is continuously appropriated to and shall be used by the...
- 461.544 Use of proceeds of video lottery games.
All net proceeds from video lottery games shall be allocated to the Administrative Services Economic Development Fund. [1991 c.461 §§1,78; 1993 c.18 §118; 1995 c.814...
- 461.545 [1989 c.828 §7; repealed by 1991 c.461 §79 and 1991 c.962 §15]
- 461.546 [1991 c.962 §2a; 1993 c.18 §119; repealed by 1995 c.814 §4]
- 461.547 Distribution of certain video lottery revenues to counties for economic development.
(1) The Oregon State Lottery Commission shall transfer an amount equal to 2.5 percent of the net receipts from video lottery games allocated to the...
- 461.548 Video lottery proceeds to be treated separately from other lottery proceeds.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Oregon State Lottery Commission shall meet the constitutional requirements for prizes and administrative costs separately for video and...
- 461.549 Use of video lottery proceeds for treatment of gambling-related behavioral problems.
(1) The Legislative Assembly finds that emotional and behavioral problems related to gambling may impose additional costs on state government and on the state economy,...
- 461.550 Expenditure limitation not applicable to lottery.
All expenditures from the State Lottery Fund or the fund established by the Legislative Assembly to disburse net lottery proceeds are exempt from any state...
- 461.555 Capital Construction Trust Fund; sources; uses.
(1) There is established in the State Treasury a Capital Construction Trust Fund separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest on the fund shall...
- 461.560 Taxation of sales and prizes.
(1) No state or local taxes shall be imposed upon the sale of lottery tickets or shares of the Oregon State Lottery established by this...
- 461.600 Sales to minors.
(1) Tickets or shares in lottery games, including tickets or shares sold from vending machines or other devices, may not be sold to a person...
- 461.700 Additional disclosure requirements; costs of investigation.
(1) Any person required to submit disclosure information under this chapter, in addition to the requirements specifically listed in this chapter, shall also submit for...
- 461.710 [Formerly 284.430; renumbered 280.518 in 1991]
- 461.715 Holding of certain lottery prizes for child support; rules; procedure.
(1) The Oregon State Lottery Commission, by rule, shall develop procedures whereby: (a) Before paying any portion of a lottery prize in excess of $600,...
- 461.720 [1985 c.829 §1; 1987 c.506 §27; renumbered 171.845 in 1991]
- 461.725 Enforcement officers to enforce prohibition on gray machines.
Out of the funds available to the Oregon State Lottery Commission to meet the administrative expenses of the Oregon State Lottery, the lottery commission shall...
- 461.730 [1989 c.909 §49; renumbered 447.255 in 1991]
- 461.740 Policy on hiring by firms receiving lottery-funded benefits.
(1) It is the policy of the State of Oregon that any firm receiving benefit from state lottery-funded programs should undertake a good faith effort...
Last modified: August 7, 2008