Florida Administrative Code › 53 - DEPARTMENT OF THE LOTTERY › 53 - Departmental › Chapter 53ER20 - EMERGENCY RULE FOR YEAR 2020 › Section 53ER20-38 - Retailer MEGA MILLIONS®Bonus Commission Program

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) The Florida
				Lottery will conduct, as a retailer sales incentive, a Retailer MEGA
				MILLIONS® Bonus Commission Program ("Program")
				in which the Florida Lottery will award bonus commissions to Florida Lottery
				retailers who sell a winning jackpot MEGA MILLIONS ticket for a Tuesday or
				Friday MEGA MILLIONS drawing.
(2)
				The bonus commission for a starting jackpot prize will be $20, 000. Each time
				the jackpot prize rolls over, the bonus commission will increase by $5, 000
				until it reaches the maximum bonus commission of $100, 000.
(3) If multiple winning jackpot tickets are
				sold in Florida for the same MEGA MILLIONS drawing, the retailers selling such
				tickets will share the bonus commission. Each retailer selling a winning
				jackpot ticket will receive a share of the bonus equal to the number of winning
				jackpot tickets sold by that particular retailer divided by the total number of
				winning jackpot tickets sold in Florida for that drawing.
(4) If a winning jackpot ticket is a MEGA
				MILLIONS with Megaplier® ticket, an additional $20, 000 bonus commission
				will be paid to the retailer selling such ticket. If multiple winning jackpot
				tickets are MEGA MILLIONS with Megaplier tickets, each retailer selling such a
				ticket will be paid the additional bonus commission.
(5) Florida Lottery retailers who sell a MEGA
				MILLION Sticket that matches 5+0 numbers will receive a $1, 000 bonus
				commission.
(6) Florida Lottery
				retailers who sell a MEGA MILLIONS with Megaplier® ticket that matches 5+0
				numbers will receive a $5, 000 bonus commission.
(7) Award of a bonus commission is not
				dependent upon the MEGA MILLIONS winning jackpot ticket, MEGA MILLIONS 5+0
				winning ticket or MEGA MILLIONS with Megaplier 5+0 winning ticket being claimed
				by the winner.
(8) Retailers whose
				Florida Lottery contracts are terminated or inactivated prior to the bonus
				commission award shall be paid the bonus commission earned provided said
				termination or inactivation was not due to noncompliance with Chapter 24,
				Florida Statutes, Chapter 53, Florida Administrative Code or contract
				terms.
(9) A bonus commission will
				be considered compensation to the retailer and will be reported to the Internal
				Revenue Service by the Florida Lottery. The Florida Lottery reserves the right
				to apply a bonus commission earned against a retailer's outstanding debt to the
				Florida Lottery, and to award the remaining balance of the bonus commission, if
				any.
(10) MEGA MILLIONS bonus
				commissions are subject to availability of funds appropriated for retailer
				incentives. This Program is subject to cancellation by future emergency rule if
				retailer incentive funding is not appropriated or if the Florida Lottery
				determines that it is no longer in the state's best interest to use such funds
				for this purpose.
(11) This
				emergency rule replaces Emergency Rule 53ER17-79, F.A.C.
Rulemaking Authority
					 24.105(9)(i),
					 24.109(1) FS.
					 Law Implemented 24.105(9)(i),
					 24.112(1)
					 FS.
New 6-10-20, Replaces
					 53ER17-79.