Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 12 - DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE › Division 40 - State Lottery › Chapter 80 - General Rules-Scratchers Game › Section 12 CSR 40-80.050 - Scratchers Validation Requirements

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This amendment conforms this rule to proposed
				  amendments reflecting current practice and terminology and to a proposed
				  rescission moving a provision currently in another rule to this rule, combining
				  different requirements relating to winning Scratchers tickets and to validation
				  of those tickets into fewer rules.
(1)
				All of the following requirements must be met for a Scratchers ticket to be a
				valid Scratchers winning ticket:
(A) Exactly
				one (1) play symbol must appear under each rub-off spot on the
				ticket;
(B) When play symbol
				captions are used, each of the play symbols must have a play symbol caption
				underneath and each play symbol must agree with its play symbol
				caption;
(C) Each of the play
				symbols must be present in its entirety and be fully legible;
(D) When play symbol captions are used, each
				of the play symbol captions must be present in its entirety and be fully
				legible;
(E) Each of the play
				symbols and play symbol captions must be printed in ink;
(F) The ticket shall be intact;
(G) The pack-ticket number, the ticket
				validation number and the encrypted validation code must be present in their
				entirety and be fully legible. The validation number shall correspond, using
				the lottery's codes, to play symbols on the ticket;
(H) The ticket must not be reconstituted or
				tampered with in any manner;
(I)
				The ticket must not be counterfeit in whole or in part;
(J) The ticket validation number, the
				pack-ticket number and the encrypted validation code shall be printed in
				ink;
(K) The ticket must have been
				issued by the lottery in an authorized manner;
(L) The ticket must not be stolen nor appear
				on any list of omitted tickets on file at the lottery;
(M) The play symbols, the play symbol
				captions, the ticket validation number, the encrypted validation code and the
				pack-ticket number must be rightside up and not reversed in any
				manner;
(N) The ticket must have
				exactly one (1) play symbol caption under each rub-off spot, when play symbol
				captions are used, exactly one (1) pack-ticket number, exactly one (1)
				encrypted validation code and exactly one (1) validation number;
(O) The validation number of an apparent
				winning ticket shall appear on the lottery's official file of validation
				numbers of winning tickets and the ticket with that validation number shall not
				have been paid previously according to the records of the lottery;
(P) The ticket must not be blank or partially
				blank, misregistered, defective or printed or produced in error;
(Q) Each of the play symbols on the ticket
				must correspond precisely to the game specifications on file at the lottery.
				When play symbol captions are used, each of the play symbol captions must
				correspond precisely to the game specifications on file at the
				lottery;
(R) The pack-ticket
				number must correspond precisely to the game specifications on file at the
				lottery;
(S) The encrypted
				validation code must correspond precisely to the game specifications on file at
				the lottery;
(T) The validation
				number must correspond precisely to the game specifications on file at the
				lottery;
(U) The display printing
				must be regular in every respect and correspond precisely with the game
				specifications on file at the lottery;
(V) The ticket must pass all additional confidential
				validation tests prescribed by the lottery; and
(W) The ticket must be a Scratchers ticket offered for
				sale by the lottery during the period announced by the director for that
				Scratchers game.