Pennsylvania Code › Title 61 - REVENUE › Part V - State Lotteries › Chapter 875 - TERMINAL-BASED LOTTERY GAMES › Section 875.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
Apparent winning terminal-based lottery game
				  ticket
-A terminal-based lottery game ticket which has not yet been
				  validated by the Lottery, bearing winning numbers, letters or symbols.
Bet slip
-A preprinted game-specific form
				  prepared by the Lottery upon which the player may mark or designate the
				  numbers, letters or symbols which when processed through the Lottery terminal
				  produces a terminal-based lottery game ticket with the numbers, letters or
				  symbols constituting the player's selection.
Drawing
-The process of selecting the winning
				  numbers, letters or symbols that determine the winners for each designated
				  prize for a particular terminal-based lottery game.
Lottery Central Computer System
-The computer
				  gaming system on which all Lottery bets are registered through a computer
				  terminal located at a licensed Lottery retailer.
Lottery terminal
-A device installed at a
				  retail location by the Lottery for the purpose of selling and validating
				  on-line and instant tickets, performing inventory functions, generating
				  informational accounting reports and performing other functions at the
				  discretion of the Lottery.
On-line retailer or retailer
-A person who is
				  properly licensed by the Lottery and has a valid agreement to sell
				  terminal-based lottery game tickets issued through a Lottery terminal, also
				  referred to as a Lottery retailer or licensed retailer.
Pay status
-The Lottery central computer
				  system designation into which a game is placed after the Lottery officials
				  verify the accuracy of the game's drawing and which enables the validation and
				  payment of winning terminal-based lottery game tickets.
Play
-A chance to participate in a particular
				  terminal-based lottery game drawing.
Prize
-The item or money that can be won as
				  specified by the notice for each terminal-based lottery game as published under
				  §
									875.4 (relating to notice of
				  terminal-based lottery game rules).
Quick pick
-The random selection through a
				  Lottery terminal of the different numbers, letters or symbols that appear as a
				  play in a particular terminal-based lottery game.
Secretary
-The Secretary of Revenue of the
				  Commonwealth.
Terminal-based lottery game
-Any Lottery
				  game, also referred to as an on-line game, for which a terminal-based lottery
				  game ticket is generated through a computer connected to the Lottery central
				  computer system.
Terminal-based lottery game ticket
-A bearer
				  instrument produced through a Lottery terminal that is the player's record of a
				  wager for an on-line lottery game and sold by a licensed retailer in an
				  authorized manner containing at a minimum the appropriate play data as
				  published in the
Pennsylvania Bulletin
for that particular
				  terminal-based lottery game, the drawing dates, amount bet, and validation
				  data. A terminal-based lottery game ticket may contain one or more plays as
				  prescribed in the notice of terminal-based lottery game rules.
Top prize
-The highest prize available to be
				  won as published in the
Pennsylvania Bulletin
for that
				  particular terminal-based lottery game.
Winning numbers
-The numbers, letters or
				  symbols selected in a particular Lottery game drawing, which have been
				  subsequently validated by the Lottery, and which shall be used to determine the
				  winning plays as published in the
Pennsylvania Bulletin
for
				  that particular terminal-based lottery game.