Iowa Code § 99G.3 — IA Code / Title III / Chapter 99G / Section 99G.3
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Status: in_force

As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

(1) “Administrative expenses” includes, but is not limited to, personnel costs, travel, purchase of equipment, and all other expenses not directly associated with the operation or sale of a game.

(2) “Administrator” means the administrator of the Iowa lottery appointed pursuant to section 99G.5.

(3) “Commission” means the Iowa lottery commission created in section 99G.8.

(4) “Department” means the department of revenue.

(5) “Director” means the director of revenue or the director’s designee.

(6) “Division” means the Iowa lottery division of the department of revenue.

(7) “Game specific rules” means rules governing the particular features of specific games, including, but not limited to, setting the name, ticket price, prize structure, and prize claim period of the game.

(8) “Instant lottery” or “instant ticket” means a game that offers preprinted tickets such that when a protective coating is scratched or scraped away, it indicates immediately whether the player has won.

(9) “Lottery”, “lotteries”, “lottery game”, “lottery games”, or “lottery products” means any game of chance approved and operated pursuant to this chapter and games using mechanical or electronic devices, provided that the division shall not authorize a monitor vending machine or a player-activated gaming machine that utilizes an internal randomizer to determine winning and nonwinning plays and that upon random internal selection of a winning play dispenses coins, currency, or a ticket, credit, or token to the player that is redeemable for cash or a prize, and excluding gambling or gaming conducted pursuant to chapter 99B, 99D, or 99F.

(10) “Lotto” means a lottery game connected to a central computer via telecommunications in which a specified group of numbers, symbols, or characters are selected out of a predetermined range.

(11) “Major procurement contract” means a consulting agreement or a contract with a business organization for the printing of tickets or the purchase or lease of equipment or services essential to the operation of a lottery game.

(12) “Monitor vending machine” means a machine or other similar electronic device that includes a video monitor and audio capabilities that dispenses to a purchaser lottery tickets that have been determined to be winning or losing tickets by a predetermined pool drawing machine prior to the dispensing of the tickets.

(13) “Net proceeds” means all revenue derived from the sale of lottery tickets or shares and all other moneys derived from the lottery, less operating expenses.

(14) “Operating expenses” means all costs of doing business, including, but not limited to, prizes and associated prize reserves, computerized gaming system vendor expense, instant and pull-tab ticket expense, and other expenses directly associated with the operation or sale of any game, compensation paid to retailers, advertising and marketing costs, and administrative expenses.

(15) “Pull-tab ticket” or “pull-tab” means a game that offers preprinted paper tickets with the play data hidden beneath a protective tab or seal that when opened reveals immediately whether the player has won.

(16) “Retailer” means a person who sells lottery tickets or shares on behalf of the division pursuant to a license issued by the department.

(17) “Self-service kiosk” means a machine or other similar electronic device that dispenses only lotto tickets, instant tickets, pull-tab tickets, or other printed lottery products, and that does not provide a visual or audio representation of lottery game play. A “self-service kiosk” is not a monitor vending machine or player-activated gaming machine for purposes of this chapter.

(18) “Share” means any intangible evidence of participation in a lottery game.

(19) “Ticket” means any tangible evidence issued by the lottery to provide participation in a lottery game.

(20) “Vendor” means a person who provides or proposes to provide goods or services to the department pursuant to a major procurement contract, but does not include an employee of the department under this chapter, a retailer, or a state agency or instrumentality thereof.

2003 Acts, ch 178, §65, 121; 2003 Acts, ch 179, §142; 2006 Acts, ch 1005, §1, 2, 4, 5; 2016 Acts, ch 1031, §1, 3; 2021 Acts, ch 94, §1; 2023 Acts, ch 19, §2298 – 2300; 2023 Acts, ch 108, §53; 2024 Acts, ch 1043, §43; 2024 Acts, ch 1170, §369; 2024 Acts, ch 1182, §94; 2025 Acts, ch 12, §1 – 3