Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 531 - Lottery Authority, Iowa › Chapter 20 - Computerized Games-general Rules › Rule 531-20.2 - Computerized Lottery Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
For the purposes of
			interpreting this chapter, the
			following definitions are applicable
			unless the context requires a
			different meaning.
"Central
			computer"
or
"central
			computer system"
is a
			computer system designated to control,
			monitor, and communicate with the
			terminals and to record the
			transactions processed by the
			terminals.
"Drawing"
means that process that is used to
			randomly select a winning combination
			for the game plays.
"Drawing
			machine"
means a computer or
			other device that determines the
			outcome of the process of selection of
			winning and losing tickets or shares
			in a lottery.
"Easypick"
means the random selection by the
			computer terminal of a valid play for
			the game that was selected.
"Electronic
			ticket"
or
"e-ticket"
means a
			lottery ticket or share for which an
			electronic visual facsimile on a
			computer is available from the
			lottery.
"Game"
shall mean any computerized game
			conducted by the lottery.
"Game
			ticket"
or
"ticket"
means a
			ticket or share produced by a terminal
			or manufacturing process that is the
			tangible evidence to prove
			participation in a game.
"Gaming
			machine"
means a drawing
			machine that upon winning dispenses
			coins, currency, or a ticket, credit,
			or token that is redeemable for cash
			or a prize.
"Instant
			ticket vending machine "
or
"ITVM"
means a
			vending machine or self-service kiosk
			that dispenses printed paper lottery
			tickets, with or without a scratch-off
			area.
"Lotto
			terminal"
means a vending
			machine that prints and dispenses
			tickets or shares that will be
			determined to be winning or losing
			tickets or shares either by a
			predetermined pool drawing machine or
			by a drawing machine at some time
			subsequent to the dispensing of the
			tickets or shares.
"Monitor
			vending machine"
means a
			vending machine that dispenses or
			prints and dispenses lottery tickets
			or shares that have been determined to
			be winning or losing tickets or shares
			by a predetermined pool drawing
			machine prior to the dispensing of the
			tickets or shares.
"On-line
			vending machine"
means a
			vending machine that prints and
			dispenses lottery tickets or shares
			that have been determined to be
			winning or losing tickets or shares by
			a predetermined pool drawing machine
			prior to the dispensing of the tickets
			or shares.
"Panel"
or
"game panel"
means
			that area of a play slip that contains
			marked squares that may be
			played.
"Play"
or
"gameplays"
means
			the selection of an appropriate number
			of available variables that
			constitutes a valid entry in the game
			or the purchase of a ticket or share
			with a sequentially generated variable
			appearing on the face of the ticket or
			share that constitutes a valid entry
			in a pool exhaustion game.
"Play
			slip"
means a card used by
			the player in marking a player's game
			plays.
"Pool
			exhaustion game"
means a game
			where a predetermined pool of plays is
			established.
"Predeterminedpool
			drawing machine"
means a
			computer or other device external to a
			lotto terminal, instant ticket vending
			machine, on-line vending machine, or
			monitor vending machine that
			predetermines winning and losing
			tickets or shares, assigns them to
			preprogrammed and prepackaged
			sequential electronic pool files and
			subsequently utilizes the files in
			production and distribution of
			electronic game cards and paper game
			tickets or shares produced in
			manufactured packs or through lotto
			terminals or vending machines.
"Retailer"
means the person or entity licensed by
			the Iowa lottery to sell game
			plays.
"Specific game
			rules "
means the rules
			promulgated by the lottery pursuant to
			Iowa Code Supplement section 99G.9(4)
			 that contain the features of a
			particular computerized game or
			promotion.
"Terminal"
means a device that is authorized by
			the lottery to function with a central
			computer system for the purpose of
			issuing, entering, receiving, and
			processing lottery
			transactions.
"Vending
			machine"
means a lottery
			ticket or share dispensing machine
			either with a mechanical operating
			mechanism or with computer components
			that perform accounting functions and
			activate the ticket or share
			dispensing mechanism.
"Winning
			numbers"
means the selection
			of an appropriate number of the
			variables, randomly selected at each
			drawing, which shall be used to
			determine winning plays contained on a
			game ticket or share.
This rule is intended
			to implement Iowa Code Supplement
			sections 99G.3 and
			99G.9(3).