New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle T - New York State Gaming Commission › Chapter III - Division of Lottery › Subchapter A - State Lottery › Part 5000 - General Provisions › Section 5000.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Unless the context indicates otherwise, the following
						definitions are applicable throughout this chapter.
(a)
Act or acts
means
					 article 34 of the Tax Law, commonly known and cited as the New York State
					 Lottery for Education Law and article 1 of the Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and
					 Breeding Law.
(b)
Affiliate
means a parent company or subordinate business
					 entity of a courier service.
(c)
Agent commission
means payments to lottery sales agents, or
					 other persons for sales, processing of claims, distribution and handling of
					 tickets and revenue, and other services performed at the request of the
					 director of the lottery.
(d)
Claimant
means any person or entity submitting a prize claim
					 within the required time period of a game to collect a prize relating to a
					 ticket. A claimant may be a person or entity named on a signed ticket or may be
					 the bearer of an unsigned ticket. No claimant may assert rights different from
					 the rights acquired by the original purchaser of the ticket at the time of
					 purchase.
(e)
Claims center
					 or customer service center
means any place designated by the
					 commission where a ticket holder or such ticket holder's representative may
					 file a claim for a prize in accordance with instructions of such
					 commission.
(f)
Commission
means the New York State Gaming Commission
					 established pursuant to article 1 of the Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and
					 Breeding Law.
(g)
Courier
					 customer
means a natural person who is the holder of an account on a
					 network operated by a courier service and who requests delivery of a lottery
					 ticket through such network.
(h)
Courier service
means a person licensed pursuant to this
					 subchapter as a vendor to carry out transactions as an agent for customers as
					 permitted by this subchapter.
(i)
Drawing cutoff
means the deadline to purchase a lottery ticket
					 for a particular lottery drawing as determined by the commission.
(j)
Lottery director
means
					 the director of the Division of Lottery within the commission.
(k)
Lottery fund
means the
					 State lottery fund established pursuant to section
					 92-c of the
					 State Finance Law.
(l)
Lottery or State lottery
means the lottery established and
					 operated pursuant to the Lottery for Education Law and article 1 of the Racing,
					 Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law.
(m)
Lottery sales agent
means a person who, or entity that, is licensed by the commission pursuant to
					 article 1 of the Racing, Pari-Mutuel Wagering and Breeding Law and the New York
					 State Lottery for Education Law (article 34 of the Tax Law) to sell lottery
					 tickets.
(n)
Network
means an online-enabled technology application service
					 or electronic system offered or used by a courier service agent that enables
					 courier customers of the network within the State to request the courier
					 service to purchase lottery tickets on the courier customer's behalf as the
					 courier customer's agent and receive delivery of a facsimile or other
					 electronic confirmation of the lottery tickets issued on behalf of the courier
					 customer through the network.
(o)
Person
means an individual, partnership, association,
					 organization, corporation, limited liability company, club, company, trust,
					 estate, society, joint-stock company, receiver, trustee, assignee, referee or
					 any other form of business organization or any other person acting in a
					 fiduciary or representative capacity, whether appointed by a court or
					 otherwise, and any combination of individuals, as well as agencies and
					 instrumentalities of the State and counties, cities, towns and
					 villages.
(p)
Ticket
means a representation, the form of which is prescribed
					 by the commission, of the lottery play or plays sold to a player.
(q)
Ticket processing
means,
					 with respect to a courier service, the process inclusive of the following:
(1) accepting a request to purchase lottery
					 tickets as the courier customer's agent;
(2) generation of lottery tickets necessary
					 to complete a request through a commission-approved lottery terminal pursuant
					 to the requirements of section
					 5004.9 of this Title;
(3) scanning legibly the front and back of a
					 ticket and creating an image thereof;
(4) matching the ticket to a courier
					 customer's request and verifying the accuracy thereof; and
(5) providing a courier customer with an
					 image of the front and back of a ticket.