Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 7 - Municipalities › 169h - Manufacture, Distribution and Sale of Sealed Tickets › Section 7-169h-25c - Sealed ticket game products distributor

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) Each
			 applicant for registration as a sealed ticket game product distributor shall
			 apply to the commissioner on such forms as the commissioner prescribes. A
			 sealed ticket game products distributor's application shall be accompanied by
			 an annual fee of two thousand five hundred dollars, payable to the State
			 Treasurer. Each applicant for an initial sealed ticket game products
			 distributor registration shall submit to state and national criminal history
			 records checks conducted in accordance with section
			 29-17a
			 of the Connecticut General Statutes before such registration is
			 issued.
(b) A sealed ticket game
			 products distributor shall have a physical office in this state and such office
			 shall be subject to inspection by the commissioner or the commissioner's duly
			 designated agent during normal business hours. No permittee or person
			 affiliated with a permittee shall be permitted to be a sealed ticket game
			 products distributor.
(c) All
			 sealed tickets purchased by a sealed ticket game products distributor for sale
			 or use in this state shall be stored or warehoused in this state prior to their
			 sale or distribution to any permittee during normal business hours, and such
			 warehouse or storage facility shall be subject to inspection by the
			 commissioner or the commissioner's duly designated agent during normal business
			 hours.
(d) A sealed ticket game
			 products distributor shall not purchase sealed tickets for sale or use in this
			 state from any person except a sealed ticket game products manufacturer
			 registered with the department.
(e)
			 All sealed tickets sold in this state shall be approved by the
			 commissioner.
(f) A sealed ticket
			 game products distributor shall develop procedures to track each packet of
			 sealed tickets to sealed ticket permittees and account for all sealed ticket
			 packets purchased, sold and in inventory. A distributor shall explain any
			 discrepancy of packets not accounted for.
(g) Sealed ticket game products sales shall
			 not be conducted under conditions other than as stated in the original
			 application for a sealed ticket game products distributor registration unless
			 an application to amend, prescribed by the commissioner, is filed with the
			 commissioner and if the subject matter of the proposed amendment could lawfully
			 and properly have been included in the original application and registration.
			 After an investigation of the facts, the department may approve or disapprove
			 the application to amend based upon the information provided in the application
			 to amend.
(h) No sealed ticket game
			 products distributor shall sell sealed tickets after any substantial change has
			 come about in its status which is at variance with the facts contained in the
			 original application for a sealed ticket games products distributor
			 registration until an application to amend is filed with the commissioner.
			 After an investigation, the department may, if the facts so warrant, revoke
			 such distributor's registration in accordance with the provisions of Section
			 7-169h-26
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies.
(i) A sealed ticket game products distributor
			 shall file a report with the commissioner on a quarterly basis, during the
			 months of January, April, July and October, on a form prescribed by him, and
			 pay to the State Treasurer a fee of thirty percent of the gross revenues
			 derived from the sale of sealed tickets. Such report shall include (1) the date
			 of sale, (2) the name of the game sold, (3) the serial numbers of all tickets
			 sold, (4) the form numbers for all games sold, (5) the ticket count per packet
			 for each game sold, (6) the name, address and permit number of each permittee
			 to whom sealed tickets were sold, (7) the name and registration number of the
			 sealed ticket game products manufacturer, and (8) any other information the
			 commissioner may require.
(j) The
			 commissioner or his authorized representatives shall at all times have access
			 to all books and records of any sealed ticket game products
			 distributor.
(k) The department may
			 investigate any matter arising from the sale, purchase or game play of sealed
			 tickets to ensure the integrity of the activity.