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SC Code § 59-149-150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 149 - Legislative Incentives For Future Excellence (life) Scholarships|Section 59-149-150. Appropriation from general fund.

 There is automatically appropriated from the general fund of the State whatever amount is necessary to provide to all eligible recipients the LIFE Scholarships authorized by this chapter.  HISTORY: 1998 Act No. 418, Section 1.
SC Code § 59-149-160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 149 - Legislative Incentives For Future Excellence (life) Scholarships|Section 59-149-160. Additional staff to administer scholarship program authorized.

 The Commission on Higher Education is authorized two additional FTEs to administer the LIFE Scholarship Program established by this chapter, the compensation for whom shall be provided from funds appropriated to the commission by the General Assembly.  HISTORY: 1998 Act No. 418, Section 1.
SC Code § 59-150-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 150 - South Carolina Education Lottery Act|Section 59-150-10. Short title.

 This chapter may be cited as the "South Carolina Education Lottery Act".  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 59, Section 2.
SC Code § 59-150-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 150 - South Carolina Education Lottery Act|Section 59-150-30. Lottery Commission created; management performance audit.

 (A) There is created a commission to be known as the South Carolina Lottery Commission, which is deemed to be a public commission and an instrumentality of the State. The commission and its employees are subject to the South Carolina Consolidated Procurement Code, South Carolina Administrative Procedures Act, South Carolina Ethics Reform Act, and South Carolina Freedom of Information Act. Venue for the commission is in Richland County.  (B) Beginning in December 2004 and every three years thereafter, or by the request of five members of the House of Representatives or five members of the Senate, the Legislative Audit Council shall conduct a management performance audit of the commission. The cost of this audit is an operating expense of the commission.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 59, Section 2.
SC Code § 59-150-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 150 - South Carolina Education Lottery Act|Section 59-150-50. Duties of the board.

 The board shall:  (1) approve, disapprove, amend, or modify the budget recommended by the executive director for the operation of the commission;  (2) approve, disapprove, amend, or modify the terms of procurements recommended by the executive director;  (3) hear appeals of hearings required by this chapter;  (4) promulgate regulations relating to the categories of lottery games and the conduct of lottery games pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act and as specified in this chapter; and  (5) perform other functions specified by this chapter.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 59, Section 2.
SC Code § 59-150-75 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 150 - South Carolina Education Lottery Act|Section 59-150-75. Authority to enter agreements for sale of multi-state lottery products; sale of tickets and products.

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the South Carolina Lottery Commission may enter into a multi-state agreement for the sale of instant game tickets, online game tickets, and related multi- state lottery products including game shows and promotional products. Procedures for ticket sales and validation, prize redemption, and other details of the commission's participation in the multi-state lottery games must be governed by the terms of the agreement entered into by the commission. For purposes of this provision, the lottery games that may be subject to a multi-state participation agreement by the commission are those defined in Section 59-150-20(7). Further, the multi-state tickets and products may be sold only through a licensed lottery retailer, pursuant to Section 59-150-150, or through the commission.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 356, Section 3H.
SC Code § 59-150-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 150 - South Carolina Education Lottery Act|Section 59-150-80. Executive director; internal auditor.

 (A) The board shall appoint and provide for the compensation of an executive director which must not be based upon or a function of profitability or percentage of sales. The executive director must be an employee of the commission who directs the day-to-day operations and management of the commission and is vested with powers and duties specified by the board and by law. The executive director serves at the pleasure of the board.  (B) The board shall hire and provide for the compensation of an internal auditor and necessary staff who must be employees of the commission and who are vested with the powers and duties specified by the board and by law. The internal auditor shall report directly to the board.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 59, Section 2.
SC Code § 59-150-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 150 - South Carolina Education Lottery Act|Section 59-150-90. Executive director, duties, and powers; prohibited campaign activities.

 (A) The executive director of the commission shall direct and supervise all administrative and technical activities as provided for in this chapter, regulations promulgated pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act, and policies and procedures adopted by the board. It is the duty of the executive director to oversee the initiation, and supervise and administer the operation of the lottery games as defined in Section 59-150-20(7); employ and direct necessary personnel; employ by contract and compensate necessary persons and firms, except that the contract must not be with an entity for the purpose of having that entity undertake the organization and conduct of the lottery; promote or provide for promotion of the lottery and functions related to the commission; prepare a budget for the approval of the board; require bond from a lottery retailer and a lottery vendor in amounts required by the board; report monthly to the board a full and complete statement of lottery revenues and expenses for the preceding thirteen months; and perform other duties generally associated with an executive director of a commission of an entrepreneurial nature.  (B) The executive director for good cause may suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew a contract entered into as provided by the provisions of this chapter or the regulations, policies, and procedures of the board.  (C) The executive director or his designee may conduct hearings and administer oaths to persons for the purpose of assuring the security or integrity of lottery operations or to determine the qualifications of or compliance by a lottery vendor and a lottery retailer.  (D) The executive director shall not contribute to or make independent expenditures relative to the campaign of a candidate for the General Assembly or a statewide constitutional office; to a political party, as defined in Section 8-13-1300(26); or to a committee, as defined in Section 8-13-1300(6). An executive director who violates this section must be summarily dismissed.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 59, Section 2; 2005 Act No. 164, Section 34, eff June 10, 2005.  Effect of Amendment  The 2005 amendment, in subsection (A), in the last clause of the second sentence substituted "report monthly to the board" for "report monthly to the State Auditor and the board".
SC Code § 59-150-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 150 - South Carolina Education Lottery Act|Section 59-150-100. Commission employees; personnel program and compensation; conflicting financial interests; background investigation; criminal record of applicants; bond requirement.

 (A) The commission shall establish and maintain a personnel program for its employees and fix the compensation and terms of compensation of its employees.  (B) An employee of the commission or an immediate family member of an employee of the commission must not have a financial interest in a lottery vendor doing business or proposing to do business with the commission.  (C) An employee of the commission who has decision-making authority shall not participate in a decision involving a lottery retailer with whom the employee has an economic interest as defined in the South Carolina Ethics Reform Act.  (D) An employee of the commission who leaves his employment at the commission must not represent a lottery vendor or lottery retailer before the commission for a period of one year following termination of employment with the commission.  (E) A background investigation must be conducted on each applicant who has reached the final selection process before employment by the commission at the level of division director and above and at any level within any division of security and as otherwise required by the board. The commission shall pay for the actual cost of the investigations and may contract with SLED for the performance of the investigations. The results of a background investigation are not a record open to the public pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act.  (F) A person who has been convicted of a felony or bookmaking or other forms of unlawful gambling must not be employed by the commission.  (G) The commission shall bond commission employees who have access to commission funds or lottery revenue in an amount provided by the board and may bond other employees as necessary.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 59, Section 2.
SC Code § 59-150-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 150 - South Carolina Education Lottery Act|Section 59-150-110. Lottery Retailer Advisory Board.

 (A) The Governor shall appoint a Lottery Retailer Advisory Board to be composed of ten lottery retailers, representing the broadest possible spectrum of geographical, racial, gender, and business characteristics of a lottery retailer. The Governor also shall appoint the chairman of the advisory board. The function of the advisory board is to advise the lottery board on retail aspects of the lottery and to present the concerns of lottery retailers throughout the State. The advisory board may establish a consumer representatives committee to help provide additional insight on other aspects of lottery retail sales.  (B) Members appointed to the advisory board serve terms of two years, except that four of the initial lottery retailer appointees serve initial terms of one year and five serve initial terms of two years. The chairman of the advisory board serves coterminous with the Governor.  (C) The advisory board shall establish its own rules and internal operating procedures. Members of the advisory board serve without compensation or the per diem, subsistence, or mileage provided by law for members of state boards, committees, and commissions. The advisory board may report in writing at any time to the board of commissioners or to the oversight committee. The board of commissioners may invite the advisory board to make an oral presentation to the commissioners at regular meetings of the board.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 59, Section 2.
SC Code § 59-150-120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 150 - South Carolina Education Lottery Act|Section 59-150-120. Assistance to small and minority businesses; annual report.

 The commission shall provide training programs and other educational activities to enable small and minority businesses to compete for contracts on an equal basis. The board shall monitor the results of small and minority business participation and shall report the results of small and minority business participation to the State Human Affairs Commission on at least an annual basis pursuant to Section 1-13-110.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 59, Section 2.
SC Code § 59-150-160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 150 - South Carolina Education Lottery Act|Section 59-150-160. Transfer of lottery retailer contract; lottery goods and services contracts and ticket sales restrictions.

 (A) A lottery retailer contract is not transferable or assignable. A lottery retailer shall not contract with a person for lottery goods or services except with the approval of the board.  (B) Lottery game tickets and shares must be sold only by the lottery retailer named on the lottery retailer certificate.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 59, Section 2.
SC Code § 59-150-165 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 150 - South Carolina Education Lottery Act|Section 59-150-165. State and national criminal background investigation.

 (A) Any person required to undergo a background investigation pursuant to this chapter must undergo both a state and national criminal history background investigation as a part of the required investigation. Any person required to undergo a background investigation may be required to supply fingerprints, along with other personal identifying information, for submission to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) through the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED). The commission is authorized to use SLED and FBI criminal history records for the screening of persons required to undergo background investigations.  (B) This section applies to persons described in Sections 59-150-40(B)(2), 59-150-100(E), 59-150-130(A), and 59-150-150(C).  (C)(1) In the case of an investigation of a person, as defined in Section 59-150-20(14), other than an individual, the required background investigations may be performed on any or all principals of the person, as determined by the commission.  (2) For purposes of this section, "principal" means:  (a) the directors and officers of an association;  (b) all partners of a partnership, limited partnership, or limited liability partnership;  (c) all members of a limited liability company, or if the company is a manager-managed company, all members and managers;  (d) for a corporation, its directors, officers, and stockholders with a ten percent or more direct or beneficial interest or any person or entity that receives more than ten percent of the net income; and  (e) an employee who has day-to-day operational management responsibilities for the business or entity.  (3)(a) If a corporation is a member of a controlled group of corporations, as defined in 26 U.S.C. 1563, or a member of an affiliated group of corporations, as defined in 26 U.S.C. 1504, and at least one member of the group of corporations is a publicly-held corporation, only the corporation which seeks the vendor or retailer contract pursuant to this chapter is considered a principal for purposes of this chapter, along with its directors, officers, and stockholders as described in subitem (2)(d).  (b) For purposes of subitem (a) of this item, "publicly-held corporation" means a corporation:  (i) whose shares are traded on a national exchange; and  (ii) whose total assets at the end of the corporation's most recent fiscal quarter exceeded one billion dollars.  (D) SLED must collect, retain, expend, and carry forward fees associated with conducting criminal history investigations to offset the cost of performing the investigations. In the case of vendors, the fee for the criminal background investigation must be included in the fee imposed pursuant to Section 59-150-130(A).  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 59, Section 2.
SC Code § 59-150-170 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 150 - South Carolina Education Lottery Act|Section 59-150-170. Fidelity fund; reserve account; lottery retailer bond; deposit of securities with commission.

 (A) The commission shall establish a fidelity fund separate from all other funds and shall assess each lottery retailer a one-time fee not to exceed one hundred dollars for each sales location. Monies deposited into the fund may be used to cover losses the commission may experience due to nonfeasance, misfeasance, or malfeasance of a lottery retailer. The monies may be invested by the commission pursuant to state investment practices. All earnings attributable to the investments accrue to the fund. In addition, the funds may be used to purchase blanket bonds covering the commission against losses from all lottery retailers. At the end of each fiscal year, the commission shall pay to the Education Lottery Account any amount in the fidelity fund which exceeds five hundred thousand dollars, and the funds paid must be treated as net proceeds from the lottery.  (B) A reserve account may be established as a general operating expense to cover amounts considered uncollectible from a lottery retailer. The commission shall establish procedures for minimizing losses that may be experienced by reason of nonfeasance, misfeasance, or malfeasance of a lottery retailer, and shall exercise and exhaust all available options in the procedures before amounts are written off to this account.  (C) The commission may require a lottery retailer to post an appropriate bond, as determined by the commission, using an insurance company acceptable to the commission. The amount must not exceed the applicable district sales average of lottery game tickets for two billing periods.  (D)(1) In its discretion, the commission may allow a lottery retailer to deposit and maintain with the commission securities that are interest bearing or accruing. Securities eligible pursuant to this item are limited to:  (a) certificates of deposit issued by solvent banks or savings associations organized and existing under the laws of this State or under the laws of the United States;  (b) United States bonds, notes, and bills for which the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged for the payment of principal and interest; and  (c) federal agency securities by an agency or instrumentality of the United States government.  (2) The securities must be held in trust in the name of the commission.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 59, Section 2.
SC Code § 59-150-180 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 150 - South Carolina Education Lottery Act|Section 59-150-180. Lottery retail contract; cancellation, suspension, revocation, termination; hearing; appeal bond.

 (A) A retail contract executed by the commission pursuant to this chapter must specify the reasons for which the contract may be canceled, suspended, revoked, or terminated by the commission including, but not be limited to:  (1) a violation of this chapter, a regulation, or a policy or procedure of the commission;  (2) failure to account accurately or timely for lottery game tickets, lottery games, revenues, or prizes as required by the commission;  (3) fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation;  (4) insufficient sales;  (5) conduct prejudicial to public confidence in the lottery;  (6) filing for or placement in bankruptcy or receivership of the lottery retailer;  (7) a material change, as determined in the sole discretion of the commission, in a matter considered material by the commission in executing the contract with the lottery retailer; or  (8) failure to meet any of the objective criteria established by the commission pursuant to this chapter.  (B) If cancellation, denial, revocation, suspension, or rejection of renewal of a lottery retailer contract is in the best interest of the lottery, the public welfare, or the State of South Carolina, the executive director or his designee, in his discretion, may cancel, suspend, revoke, or terminate, after notice and a right to a hearing, a contract issued pursuant to this chapter. A hearing must be held within sixty days of notice of cancellation, suspension, revocation, or termination and conducted by the executive director or his designee. A party to the contract aggrieved by the decision of the executive director or his designee may appeal the adverse decision to the board, and then to the Administrative Law Court, pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act.  (C) If a party files an action to appeal the final decision of the board pursuant to subsection (B) and seeks to enjoin the implementation, termination, or performance of a contract, he must post a bond payable to the State in an amount determined by the trier of fact to be sufficient to compensate the State for its losses including, but not limited to, reasonable attorney's fees and court costs resulting from the delay, if the party does not prevail in its appeal.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 59, Section 2.  Code Commissioner's Note  At the direction of the Code Commissioner, "Administrative Law Court" was substituted for all references to "Administrative Law Judge Division", pursuant to 2004 Act No. 202, Section 3.
SC Code § 59-150-200 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 150 - South Carolina Education Lottery Act|Section 59-150-200. Lottery retailer rental payments.

 If a lottery retailer's rental payments for the business premises are contractually computed, in whole or in part, on the basis of a percentage of retail sales and the computation of retail sales is not defined explicitly to include sales of lottery game tickets or shares in a state operated or state managed lottery, only the compensation received by the lottery retailer from the commission may be considered the amount of the lottery retail sale for purposes of computing the rental payment.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 59, Section 2.
SC Code § 59-150-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 59 - Education|Chapter 150 - South Carolina Education Lottery Act|Section 59-150-210. Sales restrictions.

 (A) A person shall not sell a lottery game ticket or share at a price other than that established by the commission. A person, other than a duly certified lottery retailer, shall not sell lottery game tickets, but a person may purchase lawfully lottery game tickets or shares and make a gift of the lottery game tickets or shares to another. The commission may designate certain agents and employees to sell lottery game tickets or shares directly to the public.  (B) Lottery game tickets or shares shall not be purchased and given by merchants as a means of promoting goods or services to customers or prospective customers, except as approved in writing by the commission.  (C) A lottery retailer shall not sell a lottery game ticket or share except from the locations listed in the lottery retailer's contract and as evidenced by the lottery retailer's certificate of authorization unless the commission authorizes, in writing, a temporary location not listed in the lottery retailer's contract.  (D) Lottery game tickets or shares must not be sold to persons under eighteen years of age, but a person eighteen years of age or older may purchase lawfully lottery game tickets or shares and make a gift to a person of any age. If a minor lawfully receives a winning lottery game ticket, the commission may direct payment of proceeds of a lottery prize in an amount not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars to the parent or guardian of the minor without court approval and without appointment of a conservator. In the case of a lottery prize greater than two thousand five hundred dollars and not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, payment must be made in accordance with the procedures outlined in Section 62-5-103 as they relate to distribution. In the case of a prize in an amount greater than twenty-five thousand dollars, payment must be made to a duly appointed conservator to be held for the benefit of the minor, pursuant to Section 62-5-433.  (E) A lottery ticket or share must not be sold on the date of any general or primary election; for a lottery game other than that defined in Section 59-150-20(7); or for a lottery game with corporate sponsorship.  (F) A lottery ticket or share must not be sold on the campus of a public institution of higher learning as defined in Section 59-103-5.  HISTORY: 2001 Act No. 59, Section 2.