Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 429 - Oklahoma Lottery Commission › Chapter 15 - Lottery Games › Section 429:15-1-2 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
In
				addition to terms defined in the Oklahoma Education Lottery Act, the following
				words or terms, when used in this Chapter, shall have the following meaning
				unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Altered Ticket"
means any ticket intentionally
				changed by a player or by other persons or means in an attempt to make the
				ticket appear as a winning ticket.
"Authorized Location"
means a business authorized
				by a contract with OLC to sell OLC Lottery products.
"Authorized
				Location"
and
"Authorized Retailer"
are synonymous terms.
"Caption"
means the letters appearing near the
				play symbols in the instant ticket play area that verify the correctness of
				play symbols.
"Counterfeit Ticket"
means any ticket not produced
				by an OLC authorized ticket printer or an OLC online games sales terminal.
"Defectively Printed Tickets"
means the same as
				misregistered ticket.
"Drawing"
means the process by which the lottery
				randomly selects numbers or items in accordance with the specific game rules or
				game promotion rules for those games or game promotions requiring random
				selection of numbers or items.
"Duplicate Ticket"
means a ticket produced by
				photograph, xerography or any other duplication method other than an authorized
				instant ticket printed for OLC or generated by an authorized online terminal.
"Game Name"
means the name of the Instant or
				Online game, as specified in the game procedures.
"Game Number"
means the preprinted number on an
				instant ticket which identifies a particular game.
"Instant Game"
means an instant ticket lottery
				game offered by OLC for sale to the public that is played by revealing a hidden
				play area on a ticket to display the play symbols.
"Instant Game Procedures"
means the document
				summarizing the game specifications as provided in the working papers for each
				Instant Game.
"Lottery game promotion procedures"
means the
				document summarizing promotion specifications for each lottery game promotion
				offered by OLC.
"Lottery Retailer"
or
"Retailer"
means a business entity contracted to OLC to sell lottery tickets.
"Miscut Ticket"
means a ticket cut during
				production such that the ticket is not whole and able to be validated.
"Misregistered Ticket"
means any ticket on which
				printed data has been misprinted in such a manner as to prevent reading during
				the validation process.
"Mutilated Ticket"
means any lottery ticket
				accidentally or intentionally damaged such that completion of OLC validation
				procedures is not possible.
"OLC"
means the Oklahoma Lottery Commission.
"Online Game"
means a game where tickets or shares
				are purchased through a network of sales terminals located at OLC authorized
				retail outlets through use of an OLC authorized play slip or manual retailer
				input of player requested numbers.
"
Online Game
"
does not include a game played via the Internet.
"Online Game Procedures"
means the document
				summarizing game specifications for each online game offered for sale by OLC.
"Online Terminal"
means the OLC authorized sales
				terminal used to sell various online lottery number games.
"Pack"
or
"Pack Size"
means a package
				of instant tickets, each ticket with a different number. The number of tickets
				in a pack is generally from 60 to 500.
"Pack Number"
means the unique number on the
				ticket that designates each pack of instant tickets in the game. Each pack
				number is unique within each instant game.
"Play Area"
means the covered area of an instant
				ticket that contains the ticket play symbols.
"Play Slip"
means a pre-printed OLC form for use
				by players in selecting numbers for online games (see game board).
"Play Style"
means the method of play to determine
				a winner for an individual game or game promotion.
"Play Symbol"
means the printed data under the
				removable covering on an instant ticket that is used to determine eligibility
				for a prize. The symbols for individual games will be specified in individual
				instant game procedures.
"Prize"
means a cash amount or product
				(merchandise) that can be won in a lottery game or game promotion.
"Prize Structure"
means the number, value, and
				odds of winning prizes for an individual game as approved by OLC in individual
				game procedures.
"Retail Sales Price"
means the OLC designated
				price OLC retailers must charge for a ticket when sold.
"Retailer Validation Code"
means the code found
				under the covered area over the play symbols on the instant ticket which the
				OLC retailer may use to verify and validate low-tier winners.
"Ticket"
means any tangible evidence issued by the
				lottery to provide participation in a lottery game or drawing authorized by the
				Act.
"Ticket Number"
means the number on the ticket
				that refers to the ticket sequence within the pack.
"Unreadable Ticket"
means any ticket on which any
				play data or other ticket validation information cannot be read as part of the
				prize validation procedure.
"Validation Number"
means the unique data printed
				on a ticket that enables verification of the ticket as a valid winner.
"Validation Procedures"
means the procedures
				utilized by OLC and/or its authorized vendors to determine if a claimed ticket
				is a valid winner.
"Valid Ticket"
means a ticket which meets all OLC
				game specifications and OLC validation requirements.
"Working Papers"
means the written document
				approved by the OLC for instant game production that includes, among other
				things, the game name, the art work for the ticket, how a prize is won, game
				prize structure, play style, ticket delivery schedule to OLC, and eligibility
				for a drawing, if any.
Added at 23 Ok Reg 180, eff 10-10-05
				(emergency); Added at 23 Ok Reg 2783, eff 6-25-06; Amended at 24 Ok Reg 1096,
				eff 5-12-07