An Act To Increase the Sale of Lottery Tickets To Benefit Conservation and Wildlife
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 0578
Committee: Legal and Veterans Affairs
Sponsors: DUPLESSIE, BRYANT, CLARK, HATCH, PINEAU, SMITH, WATSON, CARPENTER, HALL
Amends: 8 MRSA §374, 8 MRSA §376-A

Legislative Document 
No. 578 
H.P.441 
House of Representatives, February 11,2003 
An Act To Increase the Sale of Lottery Tickets To Benefit 
Conservation and Wildlife 
Reference to the Committee on Legal and Veterans Affairs suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative DUPLESSIE of Westbrook. 
Cosponsored by Senator BRYANT of Oxford and 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Representatives: CLARK of Millinocket, HATCH of Skowhegan, PINEAU of Jay, SMITH of 
Monmouth, WATSON of Bath, Senators: CARPENTER of York, HALL of Lincoln, HATCH 
of Somerset. 
Printed on recycled paper 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 8 MRSA §374, sub-§5, as amended by PL 1997, c. 373, 
§7, is further amended to read: 
5. 
Wildlife lottery game. 
No later than January 30, 1996, 
the commission, in consultation with the Maine Outdoor Heritage 
Fund Board, shall develop and initiate a wildlife lottery game 
designed to raise funds 
for 
the Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund 
established pursuant to Title 12, chapter 714. 
The commission 
shall provide the net proceeds of this wildlife lottery game to 
the Maine Outdoor Heritage Fund annually. 
The wildlife lottery 
game must include tickets in $1, 
$2, 
$3 and $5 denominations. 
The 
commission shall change 
the wildlife game tieket tickets 
periodically throughout the year. 
The 
commission shall adopt 
rules to establish a percentage of annual sales revenue from the 
wildlife lottery game 
to 
be 
used 
for 
marketing of wildlife 
lottery game tickets. 
Rules pursuant to this subsection are 
routine technical rules 
as defined in Title 5, 
chapter 
375, 
subchapter 2-A. 
Sec. 2. 8 MRSA §376-A is enacted to read: 
§376-A. 
Conditional requirement to offer wildlife lottery 
game tickets 
A lottery sales agent shall effer for sale tickets for the 
wildlife lottery game, pursuant 
~o section 374, subsection 5, 
in accordance with the following requirements. 
1. 
No wildlife game tickets required. 
for 
sale 
fewer 
than 
types 
of tickets 
denomination, the agent is not required to 
lottery game tickets of that denomination. 
If an agent offers 
of 
a 
given dollar 
offer any wildlife 
2. 
One wildlife game ticket required. 
If an agent offers 
for sale 3 to 6 types of tickets of a given dollar denomination, 
one of the types of tickets offered must be a wildlife lottery 
game ticket. 
3. 
Two wildlife game tickets required. 
If an agent offers 
for sale .7 to 9 types of tickets of a given dollar denomination, 
of the types of tickets offered must be wildlife lottery game 
tickets. 
4. 
Three wildlife lottery game tickets required. If an 
agent offers for sale 10 or more types of tickets of a given 
dollar denomination, 
of the types of tickets offered must be 
wildlife lottery game tickets. 
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SUMMARY 
This bill requires 
the 
Department of Administrative 
and 
Financial Services, State Liquor and Lottery Commission to issue 
$2, $3 and $5 wildlife lottery game tickets, in addition to the 
$1 
tickets 
currently offered, 
to 
benefit 
the 
Maine 
Outdoor 
Heritage Fund. 
The bill establishes requirements for lottery 
agents 
regarding the sale of wildlife lottery game 
tickets. 
These 
requirements 
specify 
the 
number 
of different wildlife 
lottery game tickets the agent must offer based on the number of 
different instant tickets 
the 
agent 
offers 
for 
each 
dollar 
denomination of ticket. 
The bill also requires the commission to 
use a portion of revenues from the sale of wildlife lottery game 
tickets to promote the sale of those tickets.