Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 216 - Arkansas Lottery Commission › Rule 216.00.10-001 - Operational Rules of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
Operational Rules Arkansas Scholarship Lottery
Preface:
The purpose of these rules is to establish the
	 policies and procedures regulating the conduct and operation of the Arkansas
	 Scholarship Lottery; to make certain that the lottery is operated with dignity
	 and integrity; and to ensure that the citizens of Arkansas maintain trust and
	 confidence in the Arkansas Lottery Commission (ALC). These rules are
	 promulgated under the authority of Arkansas Code Ann. §
							23-115-205.
Section 1.
Definitions.
1.1 "Act" means the Arkansas Scholarship
  Lottery Act (Act 606 of 2009).
1.2
  "Administrative order" means the final disposition of the Arkansas Lottery
  Commission in any matter other than a claim contract or tort, including without
  limitation bid protests and retailer licensing in which the Arkansas Lottery
  Commission is required by law to make its determination after notice and a
  hearing.
1.3 "ALC" means the
  Arkansas Lottery Commission as created by the Act.
1.4 "Applicant" means a natural person,
  corporation, partnership, unincorporated association, or other legal
  entity.
1.5 "Banks" means and
  includes all commercial banks, mutual savings banks, savings and loan
  associations, credit unions, trust companies, and any other type or form of
  banking institution who are authorized to do business in the state of Arkansas
  and that are designated to perform banking institution functions, activities,
  or service in connection with the operations of ALC for the deposit and
  handling of lottery funds, the accounting of the funds and the safekeeping of
  records.
1.6 "Bar code validation"
  means a system which allows any winning lottery ticket, printed with computer
  readable bar codes for a prize amount as determined by the Commission, to be
  read electronically at any claim center or lottery retailer location and paid
  by the retailer regardless of where the player purchased the ticket.
1.7 "Certified Drawing" means a number
  selection event about which the ALC and an independent certified public
  accountant attest that the drawing equipment functioned properly and that a
  random selection of a winning combination occurred.
1.8 "Claims Center" means the ALC claims
  center located at the ALC Main Office in Little Rock, Arkansas, or any other
  location authorized by the ALC to validate and pay a winning ticket.
1.9 "Commission" or "Commissioner" means the
  individual(s) appointed as members to the ALC under Arkansas Code Ann. §
								23-115-201
  et seq.
1.10 "Compensation" means
  any money or anything of value received or to be received as a claim for
  services, whether In the form of a retainer, fee, salary, expense, allowance,
  forbearance, forgiveness, interest, dividend, royalty, rent, or any other form
  of recompense or any combination thereof.
1.11 "Debt" means a liquidated sum due and
  owing any claimant agency when the sum has accrued through contract,
  subrogation, tort, or operation of law regardless of whether there is an
  outstanding judgment for the sum; or sum that is due and owing any person and
  is enforceable by the State of Arkansas.
1.12 "Depository" means any entity, including
  a bank or state agency, performing activities or services in connection with
  the operation of the ALC for the deposit and handling of lottery funds, the
  accounting for lottery funds, and the safekeeping of tickets.
1.13 "Drawing" means the procedure used to
  select the winning numbers or combination of numbers in accordance with the
  game rules of the particular lottery game.
1.14 "Employee" means a person who is an
  employee of the ALC unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
1.15 "Director" means the individual
  appointed by the ALC to initiate, operate, supervise, and administer the ALC
  lottery games.
1.16 "Game" means
  any individual or particular type of lottery game authorized by the ALC
  pursuant to the Act Including but not limited to instant games and online
  games.
1.17 "Immediate family"
  means the father, mother, sister, brother, husband, wife, child, grandmother,
  grandfather, grandchild, father-in-law, mother-in-law, sister-in-law,
  brother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, stepchild, grandmother-in-law,
  grandfather-in-law, step grandchild, or any individual acting as parent or
  guardian.
1.18 "Instant Game" means
  a game in which a ticket is purchased and upon removal of a latex covering or
  other covering on the front or back of the ticket or the opening of the sealed
  ticket, the ticket bearer determines his or her winnings, if any, which are
  payable upon presentation to a lottery retailer, claims center or another
  entity approved by the ALC.
1.19
  "Instant Ticket" means a printed card or slip purchased for participation in an
  instant game.
1.20 "Legal Owner"
  means the individual(s) whose name(s) appear on the ticket or share in the
  space designated for "Name" or in the absence of such entry the bearer of the
  ticket or share.
1.21 "Lottery" or
  "Lottery Game" means the public gaming system or games established and operated
  by ALC.
1.22 "Lottery Retailer" or
  "Retailer" means any person licensed by the ALC to sell and dispense instant
  tickets and materials or lottery games.
1.23 "Lottery Ticket" or "Ticket" means
  tickets or other tangible evidence of participation used in lottery games
  pursuant to the Act.
1.24 "Online
  Game" means a state or multi-state lottery game in which a player pays a fee to
  a lottery retailer and selects or uses a computer terminal to select a
  combination of digits, numbers, or symbols, the type and amount of play, and
  the drawing date, and receives a computer-generated ticket with those
  selections printed on it.
1.25
  "Online Terminal" means the electronic computer terminal through which a
  lottery retailer enters the combination of digits, numbers, or symbols selected
  by a player and by which online tickets are generated and claims are
  validated.
1.26 "Online Ticket"
  means a computer-generated ticket issued by a lottery retailer to a player as a
  receipt for the combination of digits, numbers, or symbols selected.
1.27 "Person" means an individual,
  association, corporation, club, trust, estate, society, governmental entity,
  company, joint stock company, receiver, trustee, assignee, referee, and anyone
  acting in a fiduciary or representative capacity, whether appointed by a court
  or otherwise, and any combination of human beings.
1.28 "Player" means any individual who
  purchases or Is given a lottery game from a retailer or the ALC.
1.29 "Prize" means any award, financial or
  otherwise, awarded by the ALC.
1.30
  "Random number generator" means a computer driven electronic device capable of
  producing numbers at random.
1.31
  "Share" means any intangible evidence in participation in a lottery.
1.32 "Ticket Bearer" means the person Who has
  signed the ticket or has possession of the unsigned ticket.
1.33 "Ticket Number" means the preprinted
  number found on the back of each ticket which identifies that particular ticket
  as one (1) of a series of tickets..
1.34 "Ticket Pack Number" means the printed
  number or numbers appearing on the back of each ticket.
1.35 "Ticket Vending Machine" ("TVM") means a
  player self-service machine that can:
(a) Sell
  both online tickets and instant tickets;
(b) Report real-time sales of both online
  tickets and instant tickets, low and empty bins, a full cash box, jammed
  tickets, diagnostic and error messages, and low paper stock, to the central
  system;
(c) Check and validate
  online tickets and instant tickets;
(d) Provide for either the cashing of online
  tickets and instant tickets via voucher, or other payment method provided to a
  player, which can be negotiated at retail or used on the TVM for a continued
  lottery play; and
(e) Provide for
  age control play as specified in Arkansas Code Annotated §
									23-115-402(e)(1)and(2).
1.36 "Unclaimed Prize" means the
  prize on a winning ticket for which no claim is made within the required time
  period after the drawing or winner selection event which made the ticket a
  winning ticket.
1.37 "Unclaimed
  Prize Account" means the ALC account to which unclaimed prizes are
  transferred.
1.38 "Validation"
  means the process of determining whether an instant or online ticket presented
  for payment is a winning ticket.
1.39 "Validation Number" means the
  multi-digit number found on the face of the ticket. There must be a validation
  number on each ticket.
1.40
  "Vendor" means a person who provides or proposes to provide goods or services
  to the ALC under a procurement contract. "Vendor" does not include:
(a) An employee of the ALC;
(b) A retailer; or
(c) A state agency or
  instrumentality.
1.41
  "Working papers" means the programming parameters and specific details for each
  game, including the identification of the game, ticket price and prize
  structure.
1.42 "Website" means the
  ALC's lottery address at
http://myarkansaslottery.com
or any
  other website that may be specified by the ALC.
1.43 "Winner" means the holder of a lottery
  ticket determined to have the required match or the specific alignment of the
  play numbers, digits or symbols, the required sum of the play numbers or digits
  in accordance with the game rules for the specific game, or a redeemable prize
  amount indicated on its face.
1.44
  "Winner selection" means the drawing process used by the ALC to select the
  winning numbers in online games.
1.45 "Winning Combination" means numbers or
  symbols chosen during the drawing process used by the ALC to select the winning
  numbers in online games.