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WV Code § 29-22-6 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers|Article 22. State Lottery Act|§29-22-6. Lottery Director; Appointment; Qualifications; Oath and Bond; Salary

(a) There is hereby created the position of the lottery director whose duties include the management and administration of the state lottery office. The director shall be qualified by training and experience to direct the operations of the lottery, and shall be appointed, within ninety days of the effective date of this article, by the Governor and shall serve at the will and pleasure of the Governor. No person shall be appointed as lottery director who has been convicted of a felony or crime involving moral turpitude.(b) The director serves on a full-time basis and may not be engaged in any other profession or occupation.(c) The director:(1) Shall have a good reputation, particularly as a person of honesty and integrity, and shall favorably pass a thorough background investigation prior to appointment;(2) The director shall not hold political office in the government of the state either by election or appointment while serving as director;(3) The director shall be a citizen of the United States and must become a resident of the state within ninety days of appointment;(4) The director shall receive an annual salary as provided for by the Governor; and(5) The director and his or her executive secretary are ineligible for civil service coverage as provided in section four, article six, chapter twenty-nine of this code.(d) Before entering upon the discharge of the duties as director, the director shall take and subscribe to the oath of office prescribed in section 5, article IV of the Constitution of West Virginia and shall enter into a bond in the penal sum of $100,000 with a corporate surety authorized to engage in business in this state, conditioned upon the faithful discharge and performance of the duties of the office. The executed oath and bond shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State.
WV Code § 29-22-7 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers|Article 22. State Lottery Act|§29-22-7. Divisions of the State Lottery Office

There shall be established within the state lottery office a security and licensing division; a personnel, data processing, accounting and administration division; and a marketing, education and information division. Each division shall be under the supervision of a deputy director who shall administer and coordinate the operation of authorized activities in the respective division. Each deputy director shall have had three years management experience in areas pertinent to his prospective responsibilities and an additional three years of experience in the same field.
WV Code § 29-22-11 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers|Article 22. State Lottery Act|§29-22-11. Prohibited Acts; Restrictions on Sales Agents and Retailers; Unauthorized Sales; Sales to Minors; Gifts to Minors; Prizes to Commission Officers and Staff Prohibited; Criminal Penalties for Prohibited Acts

(a) No person may sell lottery tickets or materials unless authorized by the commission to so act. No person may perform the functions of a licensed lottery sales agent unless licensed by the commission. No person may perform the functions of a lottery retailer unless authorized therefor by the commission. No person may sell a lottery ticket or material at a price greater than that established by the commission; except, that nothing in this section may be construed to prevent any person from giving a lottery ticket or material to another as a gift or bonus. No person other than a licensed lottery sales agent or an employee thereof, while acting within the scope of such employment, shall sell lottery tickets, and then only on the premises stated on the license.(b) No ticket shall be sold to any person under the age of eighteen years. This section does not prohibit the purchase of a ticket by a person eighteen years of age or older for the purpose of making the ticket a gift to a person less than that age.(c) No ticket may be purchased by and no prizes received by or awarded to any officers or employees of the commission or any member of their immediate household.(d) Any person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $50 nor more than $500, or imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year, or both fined and imprisoned.
WV Code § 29-22-12 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers|Article 22. State Lottery Act|§29-22-12. Crimes; Forgery, Counterfeiting, etc. of Lottery Tickets; Penalties

Any person who, with intent to defraud, falsely makes, alters, forges, utters, passes, or counterfeits a lottery ticket is guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than $1,000, or be confined in a state correctional facility for not more than one year, or both fined and confined.
WV Code § 29-22-13 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers|Article 22. State Lottery Act|§29-22-13. Prohibited Acts; Conflict of Interest; Prohibited Gifts and Gratuities

(1) The commissioners, the director, the deputy directors and the employees of the lottery may not, directly or indirectly, individually, or as a member of a partnership or as a shareholder of a corporation have an interest in dealing in a lottery.(2) A member of the commission, the director, and an employee of the lottery or a member of their immediate families may not ask for, offer to accept, or receive any gift, gratuity or other thing of value from any person, corporation, association or firm contracting or seeking to contract with the state to supply gaming equipment or materials for use in the operation of a lottery or from an applicant for a license to sell tickets in the lottery or from a licensee.(3) A person, corporation, association or firm contracting or seeking to contract with the state to supply gaming equipment or materials for use in the operation of a lottery, an applicant for a license to sell tickets in the lottery or a licensee may not offer a member of the commission, an employee of the lottery, or a member of their immediate families any gift, gratuity or other thing of value.
WV Code § 29-22-14 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers|Article 22. State Lottery Act|§29-22-14. Administrative Violations of Articles; Hearing; Administrative Penalties

(a) In addition to any criminal penalty imposed under the provisions of this article or any other chapter of this code:(1) No person shall be appointed, employed or continue to serve in any position or employment with the commission who has been convicted of any violation of this article, or of any felony or any crime related to theft or gambling or involving moral turpitude. The commission shall remove or discharge any person so convicted.(2) No person shall be licensed as a lottery sales agent nor authorized to act as a lottery retailer who has been convicted of any violation of this article, or of any felony or any crime related to theft or gambling or involving moral turpitude. The commission shall revoke the license or the authority of any person so convicted.(3) No person shall be permitted to act as vendor to the commission who has been convicted of any violation of this article, or of any felony or any crime related to theft, bribery or gambling or involving moral turpitude. The commission shall deny the privilege of acting as a vendor to the commission for any person so convicted.(b) Any person aggrieved by any action of the commission under the provisions of this article may in writing to the commission request a hearing which shall be held before the commission or its duly authorized representative. Upon receipt of the request for a hearing, the commission shall set a hearing date within thirty days of the receipt of the request and shall notify the aggrieved party in writing at least seven days in advance of the hearing date of the time, date and place of the hearing. The commission shall issue an order within thirty days after the hearing date, either affirming or reversing the action of the director. The provisions of chapter twenty-nine-a of this code shall apply to such hearings.(c) After hearing and determination that any provision of this article or rule or regulation of the commission has been violated, the commission may impose a penalty not to exceed $100 per violation.
WV Code § 29-22-15 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers|Article 22. State Lottery Act|§29-22-15. Payment of Prizes to Minors

If the person entitled to a prize or any winning ticket is under the age of eighteen years, and such prize is less than $5,000, the director may direct payment of the prize by delivery to an adult member of the minor's family or a legal guardian of the minor of a check or draft payable to the order of the minor. If the person entitled to a prize or any winning ticket is under the age of eighteen years, and the prize is $5,000 or more, the director may direct payment to the minor by depositing the amount of the prize in any bank to the credit of an adult member of the minor's family or a legal guardian of the minor as guardian for the minor. The person so named as guardian shall have qualified under and shall have the same duties and powers as a person designated as a guardian in the manner as provided in article ten, chapter forty-four of this code. The commission and director shall be discharged of all further liability upon payment of a prize pursuant to this section.
WV Code § 29-22-16 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers|Article 22. State Lottery Act|§29-22-16. Disposition of Unclaimed Prize Money

Unclaimed prize money for the prize on a winning ticket shall be retained by the director for the person entitled thereto for one hundred eighty days after the drawing in which the prize was won or for one hundred eighty days after the announced end of a game. If no claim is made for said money within one hundred eighty days, the prize money reverts to the state Lottery Fund for the purposes of paying a portion of the sales commission to lottery sales agents pursuant to section ten of this article or for awarding additional prizes. The commission shall promulgate rules for the awarding of additional prizes.
WV Code § 29-22-17 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers|Article 22. State Lottery Act|§29-22-17. Lottery Proceeds; Accounting Therefor; Deposit Into Account of State Treasurer; Reports; Funds to Be Held in Trust; Failure to Collect, Account or Deposit; Personal Liability

(a) The commission shall establish rules and regulations for accounting for sales of lottery tickets and materials and accounting for all funds from sales and dispensing of lottery tickets, materials and games. Such regulations shall require all licensed lottery sales agents and lottery retailers to deposit in the bank account of the state Treasurer in banks regularly used by said agents or retailers and approved by the director all moneys received by such agents and retailers from the sale of lottery tickets, materials and games, within twenty-four hours of the receipt thereof, and in accordance with the provisions of section two, article two, chapter twelve of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, unless the director specifies a different time within which the deposit must be made. The State Treasurer shall credit all funds so deposited to the credit of the state Lottery Fund. The director shall require such reports of lottery receipts and transactions in the sale of lottery tickets and materials in such form and containing such information as the director deems necessary.(b) All funds from the sale of lottery tickets, materials and games are the funds of the state and until deposited in the accounts and in the manner specified by the director are held in trust by the person or entity receiving them for deposit. If a person or entity fails to collect, account for or deposit such funds to the accounts and in the manner specified by the director, such person and entity shall be personally liable for the full amount of such funds. If the person so failing is an association, corporation or other entity, the officers thereof shall be personally liable, jointly and severally, for any default on the part of the association, corporation or entity, and payment may be enforced against them as against the association, corporation or entity.
WV Code § 29-22-18b (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers|Article 22. State Lottery Act|§29-22-18b. Definition of Term &Quotstate employees."

As used in subsection (b), section eighteen-a of this article, the term "state employees" does not include those state employees who are employed within the higher education system of the state or within the judicial or legislative branches of the government of this state.
WV Code § 29-22-18c (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers|Article 22. State Lottery Act|§29-22-18c. Increase in Allocation to Higher Education Improvement Fund From State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund

Notwithstanding any provision of subsection (d), section eighteen-a of this article to the contrary, the deposit of $10 million into the Higher Education Improvement Fund for Higher Education set forth above is for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2009, only. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2010, and subsequent fiscal years, the commission shall deposit $15 million into the Higher Education Improvement Fund for Higher Education.
WV Code § 29-22-18d (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers|Article 22. State Lottery Act|§29-22-18d. Increase in Allocation to West Virginia Infrastructure Fund From State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund

Notwithstanding any provision of subsection (d), section eighteen-a of this article to the contrary, the deposit of $40 million into the West Virginia Infrastructure Fund set forth above is for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2010, only. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2011, and each fiscal year thereafter, in lieu of the deposits required under subdivision (5), subsection (d), section eighteen-a of this article, the commission shall, first, deposit $6 million into the West Virginia Infrastructure Lottery Revenue Debt Service Fund created in subsection (h), section nine, article fifteen-a, chapter thirty-one of this code, to be spent in accordance with the provisions of that subsection and, second, deposit $40 million into the West Virginia Infrastructure Fund created in subsection (a), section nine, article fifteen-a, chapter thirty-one of this code, to be spent in accordance with the provisions of that article: Provided, That for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2014, the deposit to the West Virginia Infrastructure Fund shall be $20 million: Provided, however, That notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), section ten, article fifteen-a, chapter thirty-one of this code, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2014, any moneys disbursed from the West Virginia Infrastructure Fund in the form of grants may not exceed fifty percent of the total funds available for the funding of projects: Provided further, That for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015, the deposit to the West Virginia Infrastructure Fund shall be $30 million: And provided further, That notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), section ten, article fifteen-a, chapter thirty-one of this code, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2015, any moneys disbursed from the West Virginia Infrastructure Fund in the form of grants may not exceed fifty percent of the total funds available for the funding of projects: And provided further, That for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2016, the deposit to the West Virginia Infrastructure Fund shall be $20 million: And provided further, That notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), section ten, article fifteen-a, chapter thirty-one of this code, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2016, any moneys disbursed from the West Virginia Infrastructure Fund in the form of grants may not exceed fifty percent of the total funds available for the funding of projects.
WV Code § 29-22-18e (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers|Article 22. State Lottery Act|§29-22-18e. Increase in Allocation to State Park Improvement Fund From State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund to Permit the Issuance of Bonds for Improvements to Cacapon Resort State Park and Beech Fork State Park

Notwithstanding any provision of §29-22-18a(d) of this code to the contrary, the deposit of $5 million into the State Park Improvement Fund is for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2012, only. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013, and each fiscal year through the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, in lieu of the deposits required under §29-22-18a(d)(7)of this code, the commission shall first deposit an amount equal to the certified debt service requirement, not to exceed $3 million in any one fiscal year, into the Cacapon and Beech Fork State Park Lottery Revenue Debt Service Fund created in §31-15-16b of this code, to be used in accordance with the provisions of §31-15-16b of this code, and second, deposit $5 million into the State Park Improvement Fund, established in §29-22-18a(d) of this code, to be used in accordance with the provisions of §29-22-18a(d) of this code. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2018, and each fiscal year thereafter, in lieu of the deposits required under §29-22-18a(d)(7) of this code, the commission shall first: (1) Deposit an amount equal to the certified debt service requirement, not to exceed $2.1 million in any one fiscal year, into the Cacapon and Beech Fork State Park Lottery Revenue Debt Service Fund created in §31-15-16b of this code, to be used in accordance with the provisions of §31-15-16b of this code; and (2) deposit an amount equal to the certified debt service requirement, not to exceed $5.9 million in any one fiscal year, into the State Parks Lottery Revenue Debt Service Fund created in §31-15-16d of this code and if the certified debt service requirement is less than $5.9 million, deposit an amount equal to the difference between the certified debt service requirement and $5.9 million into the State Park Improvement Fund, established in §29-22-18a(d) of this code, to be used in accordance with the provisions of §29-22-18a(d) of this code: Provided, That the amounts deposited into the State Park Improvement Fund shall not exceed $5 million in aggregate in any one fiscal year.
WV Code § 29-22-18f (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers|Article 22. State Lottery Act|§29-22-18f. Backup Pledge of Bonds Supported by the State Lottery Fund and the State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund; Payment of Bond Debt Service

(a) Any and all remaining funds in the State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund after payment of debt service pursuant to sections eighteen-a, eighteen-d, and eighteen-e of this article shall be made available to pay debt service in connection with any revenue bonds issued pursuant to section eighteen of this article, if and to the extent needed for such purpose from time to time.(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary, after first satisfying the requirements for funds dedicated to pay debt service in accordance with bonds payable from the State Lottery Fund pursuant to section eighteen of this article, any and all remaining funds in the State Lottery Fund shall be made available to pay debt service in connection with revenue bonds issued pursuant to sections eighteen-a, eighteen-d, and eighteen-e, of this article, if and to the extent needed for such purpose from time to time.(c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (h), section eighteen-a of this article, when bonds are issued for projects under subsection (d) or (e) of section eighteen-a of this article, or for the School Building Authority, infrastructure pursuant to section eighteen-d of this article, higher education, or state park improvements pursuant to section eighteen-e of this article that are secured by profits from lotteries deposited in the State Excess Lottery Revenue Fund, the Lottery Director shall allocate first to the Economic Development Project Fund an amount equal to one tenth of the projected annual principal, interest and coverage requirements on any and all revenue bonds issued, or to be issued as certified to the Lottery Director; and second, to the fund or funds from which debt service is paid on bonds issued under section eighteen-a of this article for the School Building Authority, infrastructure pursuant to section eighteen-d of this article, higher education, and state park improvements pursuant to section eighteen-e of this article an amount equal to one tenth of the projected annual principal, interest and coverage requirements on any and all revenue bonds issued, or to be issued as certified to the Lottery Director. In the event there are insufficient funds available in any month to transfer the amounts required pursuant to this subsection, the deficiency shall be added to the amount transferred in the next succeeding month in which revenues are available to transfer the deficiency.
WV Code § 29-22-19 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers|Article 22. State Lottery Act|§29-22-19. Post Audit of Accounts and Transactions of Office

Before July 1, 2001 and at least every two fiscal years thereafter, the Legislative Auditor shall conduct a post audit of all accounts and transactions of the state lottery office. The cost of the audit shall be paid out of the state Lottery Fund moneys designated for payment of operating expenses. The commission shall have an annual audit performed by an independent certified public accountant, and the audits may be accepted by the Legislative Auditor in lieu of performance of its post audit.
WV Code § 29-22-20 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers|Article 22. State Lottery Act|§29-22-20. Monthly and Annual Reports

(a) The director shall, upon the twentieth day of each month, provide the Joint Committee on Government and Finance of the Legislature with a report reviewing the lottery operations, including, but not limited to, the amount of gross sales, the amount of net profit, the types of games being played, the number of licensed sales agents, the names and amounts of winners and any other information requested by the Legislature or by the Joint Committee on Government and Finance.(b) The director shall, no later than the tenth day of each regular session of the Legislature, provide to the Legislature, legislative Auditor, Governor and State Treasurer an annual report focused upon subjects of interest concerning lottery operations, including, but not limited to, an annual financial analysis of the lottery operations, a discussion of the types of games played and revenues generated, a statement of expenditures for the last fiscal year, a summary of the benefit programs and recommendations to the Legislature.
WV Code § 29-22-21 (2021)
2021 West Virginia Code|Chapter 29. Miscellaneous Boards and Officers|Article 22. State Lottery Act|§29-22-21. Officials Who May Appear at Lottery Drawing

No elected or appointed official, other than the members of the Lottery Commission, the director or deputy directors, may preside or appear at any lottery drawing.