Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - REVENUE, DEPARTMENT OF › Title 370 - Nebraska Lottery Regulations › Chapter 1600 - MEGA MILLIONS › Section 370-1600-1606 - TICKET VALIDATION

Current through June 17, 2024
1606.01 To be a valid ticket and eligible to
				receive a prize, a ticket shall satisfy all the requirements established by the
				Nebraska Lottery for validation of winning tickets sold through its on-line
				system and any other validation requirements adopted by the Product Group, the
				MUSL Board and published as the Confidential MUSL Minimum Game Security
				Standards. The MUSL and the Nebraska Lottery shall not be responsible for
				tickets which are altered in any manner.
1606.02 Under no circumstances will a claim
				be paid any prize without an official Mega Millions ticket (or subscription)
				matching all game play, serial number and other validation data residing in the
				selling Party Lottery's gaming system computer and such ticket (or
				subscription) shall be the only valid proof of the wager placed and the only
				valid receipt for claiming or redeeming such prize.
1606.03 In addition to the above, in order to
				be deemed a valid, winning Mega Millions ticket, all of the following
				conditions must be met:
(a) The validation
				data must be present in its entirety and must correspond, using the computer
				validation file, to the number selections printed on the ticket for the drawing
				date(s) printed on the ticket;
(b)
				The ticket must be intact;
(c) The
				ticket must not be mutilated, altered, reconstituted, or tampered with in any
				manner;
(d) The ticket must not be
				counterfeit or an exact duplicate of another winning ticket;
(e) The ticket must have been issued by an
				authorized Mega Millions agent, sales agent or retailer on official paper stock
				of the selling Party Lottery;
(f)
				The ticket must not have been stolen, to the knowledge of the Party
				Lottery;
(g) The ticket must be
				submitted for payment in accordance with Section 10 of the Game Rules
				(Procedures for Claiming and Payment of Prizes);
(h) The ticket data must have been recorded
				on the central computer system prior to the drawing and the ticket data must
				match this computer record in every respect. In the event of a contradiction
				between information as printed on the ticket and as accepted by the Party
				Lottery computer, the wager accepted by the Party Lottery computer shall be the
				valid wager;
(i) The player or
				computer number selections, validation data and the drawing date(s) of an
				apparent winning ticket must appear on the official file of winning tickets,
				and a ticket with that exact data must not have been previously paid;
(j) The ticket must not be misregistered,
				defectively printed or printed or produced in error to an extent that it cannot
				be processed by the Party Lottery that issued the ticket;
(k) The ticket must pass validation tests
				using a minimum of three (3) of the five (5) validation methods as defined in
				the Mega Millions Finance and Operations Procedures, Section 15. In addition,
				the ticket must pass all other confidential security checks of the Party
				Lottery that issued the ticket;
(l)
				In submitting a Mega Millions ticket for validation, the claimant agrees to
				abide by applicable laws, all rules and regulations, instructions, conditions
				and final decisions of the Director of the Nebraska Lottery;
(m) There must not be any other breach of
				these Mega Millions Rules in relation to the ticket, which, in the opinion of
				the Director justifies invalidation.
(n) The ticket must be submitted to the Party
				Lottery that issued it.