New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 17 - TREASURY - GENERAL › Chapter 20 - RULES OF THE LOTTERY COMMISSION › Subchapter 2 - DEFINITIONS › Section 17:20-2.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter,
				  shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise.
"Act" or "law" means the State Lottery Law, P.L. 1970, c. 13
				  (N.J.S.A.
				  5:9-1et seq.) as amended and supplemented
				  from time to time.
"Affiliate agent" means an agent licensed pursuant to this
				  chapter with whom the courier service conducts business by contractual
				  agreement.
"Agent" means a retailer or any applicant who has been
				  approved by the Director to serve as a licensed lottery agent.
"Annuity" means a Lottery prize which is payable in more than
				  one installment, and includes Lottery prizes whose installments are payable
				  more often or less often than annually.
"Applicant" means any person or entity who shall apply to the
				  Division for an application to become an agent or courier service.
"Application" means the process by which a person or entity
				  applies to become an agent or courier service.
"Assignee" means a person to whom all or any portion of a
				  Lottery prize is assigned pursuant to N.J.S.A. 5:9-13c or 5:9-13d, or who is
				  granted a security interest in all or part of a prize pursuant to N.J.S.A.
				  5:9-13k.
"Assignment" means an assignment or reassignment of all or
				  any portion of a prize pursuant to N.J.S.A. 5:9-13c or N.J.S.A. 5:9-13d or the
				  granting of a security interest in all or part of a prize pursuant to N.J.S.A.
				  5:9-13k.
"Assignor" means a person who assigns all or any portion of a
				  prize pursuant to N.J.S.A. 5:9-13c or N.J.S.A. 5:9-13d, or who grants a
				  security interest in all or part of a prize pursuant to N.J.S.A.
				  5:9-13k.
"Authorized game" means any non-cancellable draw based game
				  approved by the Director for purchase by a courier service. Authorized games
				  are subject to change at the discretion of the Director with proper notice
				  being given to all courier services.
"Authorized promotion" means any promotion approved by the
				  Director.
"Authorized promotional items" refers to promotional items
				  whose manufacture and distribution have been authorized by the Director.
"Bank" means any banking or financial institution where
				  agents, including affiliate agents and courier services, keep their required
				  accounts.
"Candidate" means any person seeking employment with the
				  Division of State Lottery.
"Claim" means a process for submitting a ticket for prize
				  payment subject to applicable Lottery validation and claims processing
				  procedures.
"Claim center" means a machine agent who has been licensed
				  under the Act to validate and redeem winning tickets at the licensed
				  location.
"Claimant" means any person who makes a claim for a lottery
				  prize but has not yet been determined a winner.
"Commission" means the State Lottery Commission established
				  by
				  N.J.S.A. 5:9-1et
				  seq.
"Courier customer" means a natural person who holds an
				  account with a courier service and who requests purchase and delivery of one or
				  more authorized game ticket(s) through the courier network.
"Courier customer account" means an account established by a
				  courier customer with a registered courier service. A courier customer account
				  is used for the deposit and withdrawal of funds used for the purchase of
				  tickets.
"Courier internet site" means the website of a courier
				  service.
"Courier mobile application" means the mobile application of
				  a courier service.
"Courier quick pick process" or "courier quick pick" means
				  all activity conducted via the courier service website or mobile application
				  where the outcome of the courier customer's purchase is determined by a random
				  number generator (RNG).
"Courier service" means a person or business entity
				  registered with the Division to purchase authorized game tickets on behalf of
				  individuals within the State of New Jersey and deliver those tickets, by
				  approved means, to those individuals in the State as a for-profit
				  service.
"Courier Service Act" means
				  P.L.
				  2017, c. 11, an act
				  concerning lottery courier services and supplementing P.L. 1970, c. 13.
"Courier service locations" means individually and
				  collectively, the physical facilities owned or leased by a courier service or
				  its affiliates from which the courier or its affiliates provides any
				  services.
"Courier service system" means all hardware, software, and
				  communications that enable courier customers within the State to request the
				  courier service to purchase tickets on the courier customer's behalf and to
				  receive delivery of a facsimile and other electronic confirmation of the
				  tickets and the entire courier service's information technology infrastructure
				  including, but not limited to, hardware, software, third party vendors, third
				  party modules, financial systems, and all other components connected to the
				  courier service network including the courier service's website and mobile
				  application.
"Courier service ticket processing" means the courier
				  service's process of: (1) accepting a request to purchase authorized game
				  tickets; (2) generating the tickets to complete the courier customer's purchase
				  request through a dedicated terminal of the affiliate agent; (3) scanning the
				  front and back of the tickets to create a legible image thereof; (4) matching
				  the tickets to the courier customer's purchase request and verifying the
				  accuracy of the purchase; and (5) providing the courier customer with a
				  purchase confirmation and an image of the front and back of the tickets
				  purchased.
"Data warehouse" means a system of one or more servers
				  located in the United States for the purpose of storing transactions received
				  from the courier service website.
"Dedicated terminal" means the terminal of an affiliate agent
				  that is used exclusively to produce authorized game tickets for customers of a
				  courier service.
"Director" means the Executive Director of the Division of
				  the State Lottery.
"Distribution network" means all courier services, armored
				  car services, and all other entities engaged by the Division to handle the
				  distribution and pick-up of Lottery tickets, settlement forms and other lottery
				  materials.
"Division" means the Division of the State Lottery.
"Division of Risk Management" is a division within the New
				  Jersey Department of the Treasury.
"Dormant courier customer account" means a courier customer
				  account that has no courier customer activity for a period of thirteen
				  months.
"Draw based game" means a game whose tickets are generated
				  from the gaming system; the winning numbers are randomly drawn by mechanical or
				  electronic means, and does not have a pre-determined outcome.
"Gaming system" means the infrastructure necessary to produce
				  a point of sale terminal generated ticket. This infrastructure includes the
				  central ticket purchasing system, the point of sale ticket terminal, and the
				  network connectivity between the central system and point of sale
				  terminals.
"Installment" means any payment made pursuant to the schedule
				  established at the time the prize was claimed.
"Instant-only agent" means a person who has been licensed
				  under the Act to sell tickets manually. When "person" is a corporation, the
				  term includes officers, directors, and shareholders (holding greater than a 10
				  percent interest thereof).
When "person" is a limited liability company, the term
				  includes any person holding greater than a 10 percent interest therein.
"Key personnel-agent" means and includes any person managing
				  the following: operation of a ticket sales terminal; the sale, validation, or
				  redemption of tickets; preparing settlements; making bank deposits; or in any
				  other manner handling lottery transactions. It also includes any person
				  managing, or otherwise in charge of, a licensed business in the absence of the
				  owner.
"Key personnel-courier service" means the owners, operators,
				  officers, directors, managers, supervisors, individuals owning 10 percent or
				  more of company stock, contractors, subcontractors, and agents of the courier
				  service who perform any services for a courier service.
"Lottery" or "State Lottery" means the lottery established
				  and operated pursuant to the Act.
"Machine agent" means a person who has been licensed under
				  the Act to sell tickets and in addition has been authorized by the Director to
				  sell certain tickets through the Lottery's designated gaming system(s),
				  terminals, and other authorized equipment. When "person" is a corporation, the
				  term includes officers, directors, and shareholders (holding greater than a 10
				  percent interest thereof). When "person" is a limited liability company, the
				  term includes any person holding greater than a 10 percent interest
				  therein.
"Multi-draw ticket" means a lottery game feature that allows
				  a lottery player to select plays for multiple consecutive drawings on one
				  ticket starting with the next scheduled drawing.
"NJDGE" means the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement
				  within the Department of Law and Public Safety.
"Non-cancellable game" means a lottery game in which the
				  official rules of that game state that tickets cannot be canceled once the
				  transaction occurs on the gaming system.
"Partial assignment" means any assignment of less than all
				  the installments or less than any individual installment.
"Person" shall be construed to mean and include an
				  individual, association, corporation, limited liability company, club, trust,
				  estate, society, company, joint stock company, limited partnership,
				  partnership, receiver, trustee, assignee, referee, or any other person acting
				  in a fiduciary or representative capacity, whether appointed by a court or
				  otherwise, and any other combination of individuals. "Person" shall also be
				  construed to mean and include all departments, commissions, agencies and
				  instrumentalities of the State, including counties and municipalities and
				  agencies and instrumentalities thereof.
"Personal information" shall mean the courier customer's
				  information used to create a courier customer account including, but not
				  limited to, name, address, phone number, date of birth, last four digits of
				  Social Security number, driver's license number, financial information, such as
				  credit card or banking information, and any similar identifying information.
				  For foreign courier customers, a Social Security number can be substituted by a
				  passport number, taxpayer identification number, or other identification number
				  from a governmental entity. A courier customer may provide the full Social
				  Security number, or the equivalent for a foreign courier customer, if it is
				  voluntarily provided.
"Play slip" or "bet slip" means a machine-readable paper form
				  used by players to choose their lottery numbers. A retailer can insert the play
				  slip into a reader and the lottery terminal will generate a ticket for a draw
				  game. The Director may authorize other means to convey numbers requested by a
				  lottery player to generate tickets from a lottery terminal.
"Promotion" means stimulation of sales through contests,
				  demonstrations, discounts, exhibitions or trade shows, games, giveaways,
				  point-of-sale displays and merchandising, special offers, and other similar
				  activities.
"Promotional items" means items bearing one or more of the
				  Lottery's distinctive marks, other than tickets, brochures, or displays.
"Registration" shall mean the Division's action approving a
				  courier services applicant (or applicant for renewal of courier service
				  registration) to operate for one year as a registered courier service within
				  the meaning of the Courier Services Act and this chapter.
"Secure transaction file" means a file that contains data,
				  which is unalterable or cannot be modified without detection.
"Strong authentication" means an effective method of
				  providing higher security than a user name and password alone.
"Suspended account" means a courier customer account that has
				  been temporarily disabled from engaging in purchasing activity.
"Ticket" means a ticket for a New Jersey State Lottery game
				  issued by the State Lottery for sale to the general public.
"Ticket storage" means the electronic and physical storage of
				  tickets.
"Validation" means successful authorization of a winning
				  ticket pursuant to game rules and subject to claim processing
				  procedures.
"Winner" means a claimant who has demonstrated to the
				  Director's satisfaction that the claim has successfully complied with all the
				  rules of a lottery game so as to be eligible for the prize set forth in the
				  rules of said game.